Example sentences of "[noun] often [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , local action often entailed the deposition of the existing authorities and their replacement by local notables . |
| 2 | This action often misuses the body . |
| 3 | The marketing machine constructed around successful fashion labels often turns the designer 's house into a glorified show home crammed with objets d'art , a totem of tastefulness , open to the press at controlled periods to offer fleeting glimpses as corroborative evidence of the host 's status . |
| 4 | Anne Ballard often raids the larder to find food to bake rock hard and add texture to her dried flower arrangements . |
| 5 | Unlike cases of rape or indecent assault , where the survivor 's account of the episode often provides the point of departure and main focus of attention , the victim of a murder attack is dead . |
| 6 | Although it was not the case when Paul was stabbed , those carrying knives often have the blade turned back on them , and Mr Wood is anxious that no more young people end up injured or worse . |
| 7 | Tsars often ascended the throne in difficult circumstances , but the situation in which Alexander found himself was undoubtedly worse than that which confronted his father in 1825 or his uncle in 1801 . |
| 8 | For example , candidates often write the number identifying the question in small figures close to the inner corner of the page , where it is often concealed by the way the examination book is bound . |
| 9 | A major development in rural industry often took the form of town based capitalists organising the labours of village artificers . |
| 10 | Polyatomic cations often have the suffix -ium ( see table 4.10 ) . |
| 11 | Foxes often avoid the colony sites of breeding seabirds because if they attempt a swift invasion to capture nestlings they are liable to find themselves the object of severe and painful dive-bombing by the parent gulls and their companions . |
| 12 | Direct American wartime experience of British colonial rule often strengthened the belief that imperialism was incompatible with freedom and rapid material advance . |
| 13 | The curves describing the relationship between demographic phenomena and demographic variables often take the shape of the letters " U " and " J " or the form of a reverse " J " . |
| 14 | On 18 December , Stephen H. Greene , assistant administrator of the operations division of the DEA , described at some length how a ‘ controlled delivery ’ worked and agreed that the DEA often used the technique . |
| 15 | A spokesman for Britain 's biggest motoring organisation , the AA , said drivers often ignored the importance of good tyres until it was too late . |
| 16 | Firstly , Proust often describes the material world by means of kinetic imagery in the novel . |
| 17 | But , as here , this mimicry often has the effect of comparing such experts with soothsayers , challenging the contemporary distinction between rational knowledge generated out of numbers and graphs and the irrational predictions of those who ‘ fraudcast ’ on evidence from stars or the entrails of animals . |
| 18 | In addition , synthesis often requires the use of a facet indicator , to mark the beginning of a new facet ; for example , ‘ , ’ , ‘ : ’ . |
| 19 | The exchange was not always beneficial ; migrants from the old inner areas often regretted the life they had left behind in the move to a more open plan or high-rise environment ( Young and Wilmott 1954 ) . |
| 20 | The synthesis of complex structures such as viruses often requires the synthesis and interaction of several gene products . |
| 21 | And , even if it were just an American issue , how can one claim to represent American art properly in the period when women 's work often led the way without including some of the artists I 've mentioned . |
| 22 | Visitors often smear the mud on their bodies . |
| 23 | Such an attitude often hardens the attitude of those with whom one negotiates . |
| 24 | In fact such unusual movements often arouse the audience to gentle laughter as swift changes add a touch of humour as two or more dancers compete to capture the attention of both the audience and their Colleagues . |
| 25 | Yet sound engineers often wish the process would stop for a while , so they can catch their breath and rationalize the many-headed monster they have created . |
| 26 | Eva often tells the story of a woman in one of the big hostels in Scotland that she was visiting just before Christmas one year . |
| 27 | As a consequence , fiduciary duties continue to apply to the directors of a company and to 'shadow " directors ( persons whose instructions or directions often determine the decision of the board of directors ) . |
| 28 | The origin of a new group often involved the development of new characters by an undistinguished member of an earlier class . |
| 29 | Dye plants often have the word tinctoria as their specific epithet , from the Latin word tinctorius , meaning " of the dyers " . |
| 30 | Motor racing , like other sports often poses the question : " Who was the greatest ? " |