Example sentences of "[was/were] often [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , last summer there were often winds of Force 6 to 8 in the Solent area with atmospheric pressures of around 1035 mb at the same time . |
| 2 | The intermediaries in this trade were often merchants from Ragusa , Venice and the city states of northern Italy . |
| 3 | From the early period of tin mining to the 1940s women were often concentrators of minerals . |
| 4 | Indeed , the opposite was frequently nearer the truth , for their leaders were often members of the lower nobility , driven to making war in this way by economic factors and , in some cases , by being younger sons with little hope of inheritance . |
| 5 | Even so , there were often areas of development which could not be accommodated with the enceinte , as has been shown at Silchester . |
| 6 | Females tended to initiate courtship , and there were often fights between females when a hen approached a courting pair . |
| 7 | They were often components of reefs , and in some environments it is the algae that bear the full brunt of the attack by the breakers on the exposed , seaward side of the reef . |
| 8 | I was recently filming there with the BBC 's Country File and we spoke to some local farmers who said there were often queues of cyclists waiting at the start of the route for 5pm to come . |
| 9 | Torrance suffered the jibes and in those early days of his experimentation there were often queues of fellow pros lining up on the practice putting greens of Europe to have a go themselves . |
| 10 | Those buffoon figures ( related by Cornford to incidents in Punch and Judy plays ) were often figures from contemporary life who are eventually driven from the stage . |
| 11 | On the other hand , foresters of fee were often landowners of some local importance , and of course held office for life . |
| 12 | These were ruled over by local " sheiks " , who in turn were often vassals of more powerful kings . |
| 13 | They were often men of learning , like Sir Laurens Van der Post or the historian Sir Harold Acton . |
| 14 | The peasants did not fail to note that the correspondents were often ex-clerks of the Tsarist regime , and so extremely bureaucratic and long used to writing what their employers wanted to read . |
| 15 | The survey respondents felt that there were often delays in producing official statistics and that employees were not always made aware of the reporting procedures or the risks involved in certain work activities . |
| 16 | At home there were often rows about spending money . |
| 17 | Moreover these inadequate wages were often months in arrears , and were paid , at least in the earlier years of the century , not in cash but in tickets which could be cashed only at the Navy Office in London . |
| 18 | It was always clear but perishingly cold at that early hour ; later the mists came down and in the afternoon there were often storms of rain and sometimes hail . |
| 19 | In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries covers were often boards in the true Anglo-Saxon sense , being of oak or beech covered with leather . |
| 20 | In return for this support in times of need , it demanded contributions from everyone , in labour and in wealth , although the latter was often payment in kind . |
| 21 | The parish school was usually small and relied on one teacher , whose small house was often part of the school buildings . |
| 22 | Between 1889 and 1910 fifty-eight clubs moved into new grounds , though there was often continuity of land use in the sense that , at least 35 out of the current league grounds were recreational or sporting grounds in some form before the clubs moved in ’ . |