Example sentences of "[noun] often [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although , apart from lapis lazuli , supplies of all these were available in Egypt and Sinai , Egyptian craftsmen often had recourse to coloured glass to infill cloisonné cells . |
| 2 | Text books often include reference to explanations of legislation given by a minister in Parliament , as a result of which lawyers advise their clients taking account of such statements and judges when construing the legislation come to know of them . |
| 3 | Natural parents often had access to children guaranteed under a court order and foster parents had to be committed to support for ‘ parental responsibility ’ , which could cause difficulties , said Miss Marion Lowe , the association 's director . |
| 4 | While valuation reports of this nature often include reference to the submission made by the parties and any other evidence collated , the reasoning behind valuations is not normally set out in detail . |
| 5 | Poor children in Jamaica often fall prey to drugs dealers who offer them clothes and shoes in return for carrying drugs . |
| 6 | The noxious stimulation used in animal studies ( chemical and thermal ) is also suggested to be inadequate and given as reason why these studies often lend support to pre-emptive analgesia . |
| 7 | Travel agents and tour operators often make back to back reservations which means that certain accommodation is booked over a period of time and as one group of guests depart another group takes their place . |
| 8 | And somehow , having made contact with the deepest part of herself , the woman often gives permission to that womb to flower . |
| 9 | Pickups fitted with metal covers quite often benefit by their removal , as the air gap between the cover and the coils often gives rise to microphonic feedback . |
| 10 | A. V. Dicey , the prominent nineteenth-century jurist and by no means an extreme anti-feminist , considered that while distinctions of rights founded on sex often gave rise to injustice ‘ they have this in their favour — they rest upon a difference not created by social conventions or by human prejudice and selfishness , or by accidental circumstances … which split society into classes , but by the nature of things ’ . |
| 11 | Species of shrews that have poor eyesight and rely on established pathways to find their way about their territory often fall victim to pits that open up in their vicinity , running straight in without seeing them . |