Example sentences of "[was/were] often [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , last summer there were often winds of Force 6 to 8 in the Solent area with atmospheric pressures of around 1035 mb at the same time . |
| 2 | The intermediaries in this trade were often merchants from Ragusa , Venice and the city states of northern Italy . |
| 3 | From the early period of tin mining to the 1940s women were often concentrators of minerals . |
| 4 | Even so , there were often areas of development which could not be accommodated with the enceinte , as has been shown at Silchester . |
| 5 | Females tended to initiate courtship , and there were often fights between females when a hen approached a courting pair . |
| 6 | They were often components of reefs , and in some environments it is the algae that bear the full brunt of the attack by the breakers on the exposed , seaward side of the reef . |
| 7 | I was recently filming there with the BBC 's Country File and we spoke to some local farmers who said there were often queues of cyclists waiting at the start of the route for 5pm to come . |
| 8 | They were often men of learning , like Sir Laurens Van der Post or the historian Sir Harold Acton . |
| 9 | At home there were often rows about spending money . |
| 10 | Moreover these inadequate wages were often months in arrears , and were paid , at least in the earlier years of the century , not in cash but in tickets which could be cashed only at the Navy Office in London . |
| 11 | It was always clear but perishingly cold at that early hour ; later the mists came down and in the afternoon there were often storms of rain and sometimes hail . |
| 12 | In return for this support in times of need , it demanded contributions from everyone , in labour and in wealth , although the latter was often payment in kind . |
| 13 | Between 1889 and 1910 fifty-eight clubs moved into new grounds , though there was often continuity of land use in the sense that , at least 35 out of the current league grounds were recreational or sporting grounds in some form before the clubs moved in ’ . |