Example sentences of "[verb] often [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the high point in 1984 , when Marks ' fortune was worth some £47 million , the group has often plunged into losses , and Marks had to bring in a new chief executive . |
| 2 | This seems unlikely now to lead to the formal designation of the three types of universities ( 'R' for research-based , ‘ X ’ for mixed , and ‘ T ’ for teaching only ) that has been mooted , but it seems probable that in practice the university system will become more overtly stratified than before ; there has always been an element of covert stratification , although this has often related to departments rather than whole institutions . |
| 3 | The twentieth century has seen many horrific examples of the power of wrong thinking , and this has often turned on matters of religion . |
| 4 | No , Minter was motivated more by the unreasoning malice which individual achievement seemed often to inspire in others . |
| 5 | When the glider is desperately low the pilot 's handling often goes to pieces , and he may over-rudder in an effort to get round a final turn without touching a wing-tip or turning any steeper . |
| 6 | The soft systems approach often leads to conclusions about fundamental problems in an organisation , problems which in turn would require fundamental changes before they could be resolved . |
| 7 | Prior learning often refers to achievements acquired directly from life experience and can refer to achievements from some distance back in the past . |
| 8 | By exploring the world in terms of the actions and their effects , young children come to realise that objects can be acted upon in different ways and that actions often result in objects changing their location ; they may be moved to a new place , positioned with respect to other objects or located on surfaces and in containers . |
| 9 | Estimating the real value of donations is difficult ; Ministry of Health ( MOH ) estimates often differ from donors . |
| 10 | As soon as he saw Pickerage he knew he had been right : here was a boy who had often gone for interviews in the headmaster 's study . |
| 11 | But we noticed in chapter 1 that linguists have often lived by metaphors — the biological metaphor in the nineteenth century and the machine metaphor today . |
| 12 | This is a vanity I have often noted in writers ; the more eminent the writer , the more pronounced this vanity is likely to be . |
| 13 | The dolphin flesh is destined for local meat markets , and although Japanese scientists have often appealed to fishermen to release young animals , they are generally ignored since tender infant dolphin meat fetches the highest prices . |
| 14 | I have often learned through dreams — frequently just floating snippets , as it were — things which I could not have learnt through my normal perceptions . |
| 15 | Except for birds seen during severe winter weather , which have often associated with influxes of other geese , records of this species are open to the suspicion that the birds have escaped from captivity . |