Example sentences of "[be] often [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prosperous rural and coastal areas are often over-provided with this sort of accommodation , while inner-city areas , where far more people with serious mental disorder live , are desperately short of such places . |
| 2 | The so-called ‘ moral ’ attributes are often cited in this context — ideas that God is wise , good , just , loving and so on . |
| 3 | However , the journeys of smolts and mature salmon are often separated by several months , and so the smolts ' odour would have to be very persistent to act as a guide . |
| 4 | The radial shields are often separated unlike those of the previous two species which are usually contiguous . |
| 5 | Questions are often raised in this respect as to whether disinfection should be carried out at the end of a day , after work or the following morning before work . |
| 6 | Some of the courses require O-levels , but mature students are often accepted without any qualifications . |
| 7 | Books on human evolution are often written by those who are not specialists in the subject and the results can be catastrophic or embarrassing . |
| 8 | In practice , hopelessly unrealistic assumptions and expectations are often built into these ‘ analyses ’ , like payback periods of three years or less , and very high , rule-of-thumb hurdle rates that bear no relation to the real cost of capital to the business or actual rates achievable from external placements . |
| 9 | Supermarket and delicatessen shelves are often stocked with many interesting tins and bottles of sauces that conjure up the promise of the Orient with their exotic names . |
| 10 | Non-scientists — and anti-scientists — are often troubled by such apparent unwillingness among scientists to spend time investigating seemingly paradoxical results which do n't fit into current experimental paradigms — corn-circles , ESP , UFOs , aromatherapy or whatever . |
| 11 | The chunks of marc are often transferred at this stage to a séchoir- a smaller , deeper , vertical press — or to a horizontal press to be squeezed out . |
| 12 | ( " Character " and " nature " are often misused in this way : look out . ) |
| 13 | Not only is having had some form of employment considered to increase a job seeker 's attractiveness to an employer and diminish the chances of a devaluation of his work skills , but temporary placings themselves can turn into permanent ones , either because the temporary position is made permanent or because the employer becomes acquainted with the capabilities of the temporary worker and recruits him into a vacant permanent position.1 Special temporary employment schemes such as the Community Programme are often justified in this manner , the suggestion being that they raise the chances of the long-term unemployed finding jobs some threefold ( Turner , 1985 ) . |
| 14 | Local authorities are often composed of these kinds of functional departments . |
| 15 | So the designs of one era are often rejected by another , usually in reaction and because of the human need for change . |
| 16 | According to Wells , the data from his research contradicts crude generalizations that are often made about some children as being ‘ deprived at home ’ of those language experiences that will prepare them for schooling , and assumptions that the school is a ‘ rich language environment ’ . |
| 17 | However , all the important branches of physics are now seen as engineering subjects in their own right and are often taught without much of the underlying physics . |
| 18 | Three reasons are often suggested for this , one strictly electoral , one relating to the fiscal situation in each State , and the third reflecting wider attitudes , in particular attitudes of southern whites towards blacks . |
| 19 | Carex limosa and Rhynchospora alba are often found in this community . |
| 20 | The plantations are often considered of little value as bird habitats , but there can be no doubt of their importance at some stages of their development . |
| 21 | The complaints are often accompanied by some sort of digestive upset ( like in Pulsatilla ) . |
| 22 | With Unix or open systems , where the hardware and software are often bought from several different suppliers , ‘ information technology management is much more complex ’ , according to Roger Pavitt , Price Waterhouse consultant . |
| 23 | Trichloromethane ( chloroform ) and propanone ( acetone ) are often used for this purpose . |
| 24 | In some places the glacial deposits were reworked by small glacial streams and rivers leading to occasional , small deposits of fluvio-glacial sands and gravels which are often used throughout these islands as sources of aggregate for building purposes . |
| 25 | Hobbes ' extreme views are often juxtaposed with those of Rousseau , who viewed human nature as innately ‘ good ’ and attributes the manifest defects in human behaviour to the corrupting effects of ‘ society ’ or of ‘ culture ’ . |
| 26 | Because they lead somewhat unusual lives , college teachers are often subjected to this type of elaborate caricature . |
| 27 | We are often attracted to another person by their physical appearance and sometimes by their ideas , opinions and goals . |
| 28 | Their environments are locally various and the types are often divided from each other by the topography of the country , so that several different regional types have developed over the years . |
| 29 | While it is true that many large Victorian family houses have been successfully converted into small flats , the smaller suburban-style houses built in the 1920s and 1930s and copied in the ‘ garden cities ’ and new towns of the 1940s are less amenable to conversion and are often located in such a way within the city that they will have an effect on the life-style and employment opportunities of men and women for generations to come ( McDowell , 1983 ) . |
| 30 | At club level these divisions are often relaxed as all boards sail together and only a maximum sail size rule is imposed . |