Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] often [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth remembering that luck often comes to the aid of the experimenter . |
| 2 | After that Creggan often talked to her , sometimes in a barest whisper that only she could hear , and other times more powerfully so that others could share her dream and inner peacefulness . |
| 3 | The dilemma is worse still in that religion often appears to be inextricably and centrally involved in the perpetration of crime and the proliferation of human misery and damage to the environment . |
| 4 | The possibilities opened up are exceptionally exciting and realisable provided certain strange notions of academic freedom ( in this case often amounting to a student fishing desperately around for an ‘ original ’ and totally useless subject like the history of his old school ) , can be avoided . |
| 5 | This title often passed to successive members of the same family , creating military dynasties . |
| 6 | Another object often suspected to be a black-hole candidate on spectral grounds , GX 339–4 , does show a 6-Hz QPO , but there is no dynamical proof that the compact object is too massive to be a neutron star . |
| 7 | Miscarriages procured in this way often led to death or malformed births . |
| 8 | Because of the division of labour , work soon became the perpetual repetition of a simple task , or the minding of a machine ; such work often had to be done for fourteen hours a day , six days a week , and there were no special provisions for the women and very young children who were considered especially suitable for work in the textile industries . |
| 9 | Right Some of the commoner types of fern-like foliage from the Carboniferous Such foliage often belongs to the seed ferns , rather than the true ferns |
| 10 | However , too much height often leads to situations where even full airbrake can not prevent a drastic overshoot . |
| 11 | The same thing often happens to a manufacturer when he believes he can buy the public 's good opinion of him . |
| 12 | These gall wasps show an alternation of sexual and non-sexual generations — a feature of many groups of insects , including , for example , the aphids — each generation often adapted to a different plant species . |