Example sentences of "[noun] often [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These traders often work in the open air . |
| 2 | It is a term often used in the description of military medals and badges . |
| 3 | Right : Sue often sews in the living room , one of the lightest rooms in the house |
| 4 | Since the condition often occurs in the secondary-school years , the young person may not only be faced with the trauma of the diagnosis and the confusion of being still able to see clearly in some situations and not at all in others , but there may also have to be a decision to transfer the medium of communication from print to braille , all this taking place in the years leading up to important examinations . |
| 5 | This guidance often comes in the form of impulses to do this or that — to write to a friend , to read a certain book , to meditate , to go to a meeting , to buy some flowers , to sign up for an evening class . |
| 6 | One must add to this that the limitations to an experiment often lie in the performance of transducers , and the experimentalist should always be on the alert for new possibilities . |
| 7 | Sir Ralph 's death note bore the impression of a three-masted ship , the type often used in the Middle Sea , whilst the seed cake is the mark of the Assassins . |
| 8 | It is perhaps useful here to bear in mind the distinction often made in the study of pressure groups between ‘ interest ’ groups and ‘ cause ’ groups , though in the tactical struggle for influence each may seek to co-opt the support of the other . |
| 9 | Lack of confidence often results in the pilot playing it safe with extra height , instead of making an effort to rely on his own judgement . |
| 10 | We wanted to show you do n't just get zippo-zappo toys from factories ; individuals often working in the street with recycled materials can make fun toys . |
| 11 | After her poem drew one in reply , Ella Wrote an article in prose in the next issue in which she put a point often made in the later period ( see Chapters 5 and 7 ) by women workers , and one which is central to the debate on women 's pay generally . |
| 12 | At busy times , 100 or more fishing boats often work in the area . |
| 13 | Tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano ( b. 1952 ) has in some respects come up the hard way ; passing the 40-year mark last year , he 's nevertheless a craftsman often overlooked in the public eye in favour of younger more ‘ marketable ’ musicians . |
| 14 | Vodnik was in many ways a typical figure of the European Romantic movement , drawing inspiration from the oral folk tradition of the peasants , which had a vigour and directness often lacking in the more formal literary tradition . |
| 15 | In the Pastoral Epistles the noun presbyters often appears in the plural , bishop in the singular , suggesting that one man was beginning to have a special position in both worship and charitable administration . |
| 16 | The actual brilliance often displayed in the art of living in modern society by people of all classes , and the use of ambiguities , inconsistencies , resistance , framing and such devices in individual and social strategies are thereby lost . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , local managers often think in the short term , whereas senior managers think in the longer term . |
| 18 | One of the things often overlooked in the ‘ valves vs tranny ’ debate is this interaction . |
| 19 | A couple of days after the riot was over , the streets of South Central , Los Angeles , offered a visual detective story , in which final chapters and final questions often came in the form of a shattered plate window or a burned-out shop front . |
| 20 | They were short and squat , stoutly built for the rigours of the trade and the even more difficult conditions often experienced in the North Sea . |
| 21 | Bollards are prone to sudden collapse , and the ropes often jam in the groove behind the capstan during retrieval . |
| 22 | Highway engineers ' schemes for increasing the size of junctions often result in the stone being broken up for hardcore or being tossed unceremoniously aside . |
| 23 | In his book Mere Christianity , Lewis tells us that there are two mistakes people often make in the way they think about their desire . |
| 24 | Though urged by the school to apply for a place at Oxbridge , she chose instead to go to Sussex University , as bright young people often did in the 1970s , because the new universities were considered exciting and innovatory places to study at . |
| 25 | We conclude this section with a description of a method often used in the following circumstances : ( a ) The problem is formulated as a matrix pencil ; if it is of dynamical origin , we re given a non-singular symmetric stiffness matrix C of order n and a corresponding symmetric mass matrix B : the problem is to find certain modes and frequencies satisfying |
| 26 | Nevertheless , absence from an examination or the non-completion of coursework often results in the award of a fail grade . |
| 27 | A small puff of air often occurs in the release of voiceless plosive . |
| 28 | Similar processes often occur in the presence of a pressure gradient . |
| 29 | In fact , Daphne often sleeps in the elephant hut , cuddling the babies and supervising their feeds . |
| 30 | This governed the vessels draft and deep laden ships often lay in the roads awaiting suitable tides before entering harbour . |