Example sentences of "often of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many cases this has resulted in the introduction of faked features and the associated destruction of existing features which , though often of architectural and historic interest in their own right , do not fit in with the designer 's concept of the pub 's ideal form . |
| 2 | At the present time interpretation , often of a narrow and unrewarding kind , flourishes , usually though falsely claimed on publishers ' blurbs to be saying something completely new and important . |
| 3 | All — his pride in his memory , his sense of the internationale of writers , painters , musicians , and the aristocrats , his study of form as technique ( no contours , no edges , intellectual concepts , but rounding , thrusting , as a splash of color , as Yeats described his aim in the Cantos … ) it is all a huge AESTHETICISM , ending in hate for Jews , Reds , change , the content and matter often of disaster , a loss of future , and in that a fatality as death-full as those for whom the atom bomb is Armageddon , not Apocalypse . |
| 4 | Much the same procedure , shorn of its formality ( and often of its reliability , too ) is followed in the early stages of making a political programme for the box . |
| 5 | In these societies marriages involve alliances between groups , often of a political character , and as such they are initiated and organized by the leaders of the groups concerned rather than by the future couple . |
| 6 | Such exchanges take place not because people need to obtain what they do not produce but in order to demonstrate and maintain social links , often of an egalitarian kind . |
| 7 | practically , the liability is not often of much value to the injured person , for the infant probably has no property available to satisfy it , and his parents are not liable for his acts . |
| 8 | However , yields are proportionally low ( though often of higher quality ) , careful pruning is sometimes necessary and , with their smaller root system , trees may need good soil and permanent support stakes . |
| 9 | There appear to be many small churches , often of wood , served by a single priest , in ninth-century Europe ; in England , on the other hand , the first signs of such a phenomenon occur in the tenth century . |
| 10 | Pressed against Masha 's raincoated buxomness , I wondered at how unaccountably desire had all but vanished — though I had dreamed often of our reunion . |
| 11 | The gold medal exhibit from the Society 's Lily Group offers a chance of seeing the fritillaries that grow on arid hillsides in Turkey , often of bizarre colouring . |
| 12 | The children , on the other hand , were the focus of much anxious attention — often of an intrusive and insistent kind that in itself became a kind of professional abuse . |
| 13 | Yet the new role of emperor was held in control by Charles who used it for his own ends , which were often of the highest order and extended far beyond mere materialism . |
| 14 | Peace negotiations with the King , in the spring of 1643 , came to nought and Cromwell , now a Colonel , increased his troops into regiment strength , enrolling godly men , often of poor and mean parentage , but inclined to his own Puritan thoughts . |
| 15 | Three and four-bedded rooms in hotels are usually twin bedded rooms with extra beds ( often of the folding kind ) and may therefore be rather cramped . |
| 16 | A prime theme has been the argument that group formation is often of survival value to individuals in gaining a social cover from predation ( p. 52 ) . |
| 17 | The plants reproduced by means of spores , which were born in cones ; the spores were often of two kinds — large ( female ) megaspores up to 2 mm in diameter and much smaller ( male ) microspores . |
| 18 | Thus a lady 's companion , though a domestic servant , was often of comparable birth to her mistress and would have received appropriate treatment . |
| 19 | Old age can cover a period often of 30–35 years or more : those just entering their retirement will be a generation younger than some of the oldest citizens . |
| 20 | For policy-makers , the problems of research and measurement of a large number of important variables , often of a non-quantitative kind , have been severe both in population studies and in soil conservation . |
| 21 | But sitting up in the bedroom looking down towards the river , she was asking herself more often of late whether meat and clothing were all there was to life . |
| 22 | You are doing that too often of late . |
| 23 | Such areas , often of rank grassland , scrub or wetland , occur quite frequently in the Auvergne uplands and must add a significant level of habitat diversity , particularly structural diversity , which may be important entomologically and for breeding birds and small mammals . |
| 24 | Now , most often of course , this begins to happen because of earlier human actions . |
| 25 | Lord Denning expressed the view that , in any event , in ascertaining where the base was , the contract terms were often of little help and ‘ you have to go by the conduct of the parties and the way they have been operating the contract ’ . |
| 26 | A hundred years ago , Corby was a little country village of cottages built of the local Jurassic limestone , which is often of a rich brown or rust colour due to the presence of iron oxide in the rock . |
| 27 | Delinquents have more commonly been the victims of adult assaults — often of a vicious , persistent and even calculated nature — than non-delinquents . |
| 28 | Another important example of the way in which the criminal law reflects ruling-class interests is the way in which the ‘ crime problem ’ tends to be equated with working-class crime , often of a very trivial nature , rather than the more important , in terms of money , white-collar crime . |
| 29 | Symptoms like this are called strange , rare and peculiar , and are often of prime importance in finding the remedy or group of remedies from which to make one 's selection . |
| 30 | Copious diarrhoea often of green slime or mucus . |