Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] often [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In broadcasting , short-term contracts often replace staff jobs . |
| 2 | Commercial contracts often contain time bars which seek to prevent claims after a specified date . |
| 3 | This kind of ability is both envied and disparaged by many Continental musicians , and it can not be doubted that professional English singers often perform music which they have not had time to ‘ learn ’ in any sense of the term that a European singer would accept . |
| 4 | Shells from marine and freshwater molluscs often provide evidence of the food eaten by inhabitants . |
| 5 | Warfare , preparations or war , and negotiations for ‘ peace ’ by the élites of opposing stratified social formations often distract attention from , and may be meant to distract attention from , the permanently installed violence perpetrated by dominant strata against subordinate strata within each formation ( see Chomsky 1987 : 105–6 ) . |
| 6 | Teenage magazines often have stories about girls who fall in love with handsome , exciting young men who do n't care for them at all while ignoring the nice , but rather ordinary , boy-next-door who thinks the world of them . |
| 7 | Electronic spectra often contain information about the vibration frequencies of both the lower and the upper electronic states of the species involved , as described in Chapter 6 . |
| 8 | During this time they provided an average of five daily meals often baking bread two or three times a day in addition to tending the garden and cows . |
| 9 | Subs on the Guardian are relatively light-handed , but reporters on some tabloids often have difficulty recognising their own work — especially if it clashes with the view of the proprietor . |
| 10 | Social services often know families in extreme financial difficulty . |
| 11 | Anyone who has ever taken anti-histamines to relieve an allergy or the symptoms of hay fever will know that such tablets often cause drowsiness and a inability to think as clearly as usual . |
| 12 | Such statuettes often adorned vessels . |
| 13 | Those who have not experienced some type of long-term , warm , trusting relationship in their early years often lack self-confidence and may find it difficult to communicate effectively with other people . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Such decisions often involve complexity and criticality , cross system/trade boundaries and are frequently made under pressure . |
| 16 | Moral philosophers often ignore empathy as though it were an irrelevance outside their province , a matter for psychology perhaps rather than philosophy . |
| 17 | The cost of maintenance , the financial attractions of redevelopment the need for urban renewal , the roads programme and similar factors often threaten buildings which are of architectural or historic interest . |
| 18 | Farmers who have land near to large cities often produce goods of high value , such as fresh vegetables and flowers . |
| 19 | These clubs often run tours and other events to take part in . |
| 20 | Their contribution so far has emphasized reviews of human impacts often reflecting research in other disciplines rather than appropriate fundamental impact studies by physical geographers . |
| 21 | Natural parents often had access 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 , association director . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | These emissaries often bore gifts as well as eloquent words : since at least the early thirteenth century royal pensions were granted to promising or influential cardinalsto eighteen at least of the seventy-two who there were between 1305 and 1334 , to six alone in 1309 when the royal mission secured papal backing for Gaveston 's recall . |
| 24 | People working in these professions often take pleasure in describing a sales campaign in which surplus stocks of milk were dispersed by persuading the public that it had a taste for a new mass product , such as yoghurt , or in reminding us that ploughman 's lunches could be invented to persuade a new group to patronize pubs . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In 10 of 13 patients with gastric ulcer , tight junctions often exhibited discontinuity and decreased numbers of tight junctional strands , and extensions of apical tight junctional strands to the base of a cell were occasionally seen ( Figs 5B , C ) . |
| 27 | Serial biopsy specimens in these patients often showed variations in the intensity of inflammation and hepatocyte necrosis . |
| 28 | Reactions with very fast rates often involve particles known as free radicals . |
| 29 | Major out-of-town retail developments often become centres of other kinds of development once planning permission has been given . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , it is likely that activation of Na + / H + exchange and also the HCO 3 - transport systems play a permissive role in cell proliferation by maintaining pH i at a level which will permit DNA and protein synthesis ; these processes often have pH optima above basal pH and are inhibited by intracellular acidosis . |