Example sentences of "often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anthropological knowledge can seem , and often is , dangerous and subversive — not because we are good at digging up dirt ( we are ) , nor simply because we document what ‘ actually happens ’ rather than what is supposed to happen , but because our ways of defining situations and problems often raise questions in our minds about the fundamental assumptions on which any institution bases its own definitions , and indeed the assumptions on which it rests as an institution . |
| 2 | Many women authors extend the sort of metafictional self-scrutiny which The Golden Notebook so extensively sustains : Eva Figes 's novels , for example , often raise self-referential questioning of their own representational validity and Muriel Spark teases several of her heroines with unsettling awareness of the process of their own creation . |
| 3 | Thus , years after the US and the USSR last sent space probes to the Moon to gather rock samples , a rich harvest of exciting new samples from space is turning up on Earth and which often raise more questions than they answer . |
| 4 | The underlying problem is that cases concerning the employment rights of public employees often raise both public law and private law issues which are not easily separable , if at all . |
| 5 | They are designed to cope with the fact that judicial review actions often raise complex issues of public policy administrative practice which go well beyond the interests of the parties to the judicial review application and of the applicant in particular . |
| 6 | No two situations are alike , and the circumstances in which people move home often raise related legal problems . |
| 7 | Nor can his late nights : he often sits till three in the morning watching a film on TV . |
| 8 | As most houses consist of large drawing rooms and smaller bedrooms and studies , the chief of the office often sits alone in the best room , while the clerks are put into the smaller rooms . |
| 9 | Now Sebastian is dead , long dead , and Alix is married to Brian Bowen , son of a saw polisher , grandson of a furnaceman , and often sits with him on an old settee in her stockinged feet . |
| 10 | Drake often sits on water with tail cocked up . |
| 11 | Its permanent collection of fine Victorian paintings often sits cheek by jowl with a varied selection of current art and craft practices some of which also provide opportunities for visitors to participate in . |
| 12 | In these cases one of the objectives is often to enable lower rates of pay and/or fringe benefits to be paid than if the workers concerned were remunerated on scales applying to the organisation itself . |
| 13 | Third — note how in places punctuation , or lack of it , often enacts the movement . |
| 14 | And they often hoot you if you 're doing it but that 's the place |
| 15 | I was told it was not necessary to be big and hefty to take part as it was often fell runners who did well , wiry types with good strong legs . |
| 16 | Mushroom polyps will often reproduce in the aquarium under good conditions . |
| 17 | There are three common grades of olive oil : extra virgin , which is thick and green , and cold-pressed with an acidity of less than 1% ; virgin , which is green and cold-pressed but with up to 4% acidity , and fine olive oil , for general cooking , which is heat treated during the second pressing to extract the maximum oil from the fruit and often blended with other olive oils . |
| 18 | Sulphamic acid is often blended with a non-ionic detergent for use in descaling expensive equipment such as dishwashing machines and as an acid wash in ‘ clean-in-place ’ systems after the use of an alkali machine detergent . |
| 19 | Politics can often skew decisions that should be taken on their merits . |
| 20 | Chamomilla child , unlike the Pulsatilla child who most often evokes one 's sympathy . |
| 21 | None of this is to deny that we may often regard doctors ' claims to special privilege with some cynicism and distrust . |
| 22 | We need not worry about families or superfamilies in this book , but classes often correspond to everyday groups of animals . |
| 23 | The points used most often correspond to the Hegu ( L14 ) and Zusanli ( St36 ) points . |
| 24 | These views often correspond to the political views of their holders : conservative and left-wing , respectively . |
| 25 | On the other hand , stretches of Creole embedded in a London English turn often correspond to the most salient parts of the utterance , those which the other parties to the conversation respond to . |
| 26 | Marketers will have to take into account the fact that expenditure and consumption patterns are often differentiated by the membership of social classes . |
| 27 | ( It is worth adding that multiculturalists are prone to another essentialism with regard to the state , often seeing it as a neutral and uncontradictory vehicle for educational and other reforms — see Troyna 's critique ( 1987b ) of the Swann Report . ) |
| 28 | For the Police , the frustration is often seeing the same faces on the streets . |
| 29 | It is not clear which , the anger or the boredom , was thought to be the more insulting , but both were expressed as that arrogance for which he was often hated . |
| 30 | I spent my working life in an international chemical company and this confusion was often commented upon by my French , German , Dutch and Italian colleagues . |