Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] often [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Announcements on college noticeboards often gave details of students who had been involved in ‘ inappropriate conduct ’ and dismissed from their studies .
3 Explain the reasons why partnership agreements often contain clauses relating to interest , bonuses , salaries and division of profits .
4 Partnership agreements often use auditors ' certificates .
5 Accused persons were automatically excluded from longevity treatment , and , since the Imperial law courts often took years over a complex case , the effects of the irreversible ageing process were usually apparent .
6 British national bibliography entries often omit prices .
7 Among the poor who had no property , desertion was the informal answer to marital unhappiness and was practised on an unknown scale until the Second World War : certainly , eighteenth and nineteenth century poor law officials often expressed concern at the number of deserted wives drawing relief .
8 SEX ABUSE NETWORKS OFTEN INVOLVE CHILD-CARE WORKERS
9 Commercial free range farms often keep hens in densely packed flocks of up to 4,000 , with access to bare grassland rather than the varied shrubs and trees they prefer .
10 Northamptonshire is often referred to as the County of ‘ Spires and Squires ’ , but village churches often have towers .
11 Wine merchants often lend glasses to customers for a small charge or even for free — assuming that you buy a few bottles from them .
12 Notice boards outside tourist offices often display weather forecasts for the next few days .
13 Tax administrators often see tax theory as a luxury to be indulged in in any odd moment they might have to look up from their files , while tax theorists tend to see the administration and practical aspects of taxation as an easily coped with minor irritant , or deviation , from their ‘ grand design ’ .
14 In their horizontal distribution plants often follow soil patterning ( p. 77 ) , mosses , lichens and angiosperms aligning themselves along the cracks between polygons , with crustose lichens occupying the centres .
15 The conversation between group members often reveals ideas that might not be expressed in other circumstances .
16 Meat products often include pastry or are fairly fatty ( like sausages or chops ) .
17 Although you could re-use the tape for another recording , you may decide to keep it : it 's surprising how even the most unambitious personal video recordings often contain scenes , or just brief moments , which are worth preserving .
18 Modern flash photolysis experiments often use lasers because of their superior intensity , their monochromaticity and their directed beams .
19 But service commitments often prevent juniors from attending these meetings , and not all senior staff enjoy or are good at teaching .
20 In addition to earthworks , field names often indicate parks , and sometimes curvilinear field boundaries can be seen on maps and air pictures .
21 THE COMPLICATED VAT LIFE OF A LEASE Traders often lease premises , but there are many occasions during a lease 's life when VAT liabilities can arise
22 This is worth emphasising since monetary control regulations often include references to ratios of various sorts .
23 It is known , however , that there are some distinctive features about the learning involved in becoming a teacher : there is a strong experiential element and students rely heavily on their own past experiences of schools and teaching : educational decisions are value saturated and student teachers often experience dilemmas in decisions about their own practice ; students frequently experience a certain amount of stress in the learning process ; and part of the learning process involves the coordination of a vast amount of different types and areas of knowledge .
24 Board members often reported difficulty in attending area sessions as well as their other commitments .
25 As one of the most exposed institutions in Scotland , the HIDB attracted a good deal of criticism whereas planning developments in local government offices often escaped discussion because many of their decisions were ‘ hidden ’ .
26 But voice settings often form part of the typical verbal performance of particular regional accents , and can thus also act as social markers .
27 Big manufacturing companies often have marketing departments where products are divided into brands , like Persil , or into product groups such as soap powders and detergents .
28 This is a typical ‘ coal shale ’ ; shales and silts occurring between productive coal seams often contain impressions of the plants that went to form the coal .
29 Settlements emparked in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries tend not to survive too well as earthworks , but abandoned sixteenth-or seventeenth-century garden schemes often incorporate remains of village earthworks .
30 In the last terms of the diploma course students often find tutorials , where they are given opportunity to talk about work in progress , enormously valuable .
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