Example sentences of "[noun] often [verb] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reversion of criticism , at least in academies , from practice to theory after the demise of Scrutiny in 1953 and the appearance of Empson 's last lifetime book in 1961 was perhaps something to be expected , as failures of nerve often follow phases of confidence and excess . |
| 2 | Companies often use details of education to plot out salary curves and promotion prospects . |
| 3 | Dr Anthony Storr , author of the recently-published Churchill 's Black Dog , in which he showed how senior politicans often turned stresses of up-bringing into strengths , said yesterday : ‘ I 'm interested because the gates must mean that she 's feeling increasingly insecure and threatened in a simple , straightforward way ; and that 's an interesting phenomenum in itself because she 's been so absolutely certain of herself . |
| 4 | Later , talking to his teacher after a year and two terms at Cedars , it seemed that Balbinder 's conversational language was developing well ; he could hold his own in a small group often initiating topics of interest , describing , explaining and enquiring . |
| 5 | Local networks often took advantage of kinship ties . |
| 6 | Illegal migrants who hide from authorities often became victims of crime or criminals , he said . |
| 7 | Illegal migrants who hide from authorities often became victims of crime or criminals , he said . |
| 8 | Organizations which set great store by behavioural conformity often develop patterns of operation which can appear ridiculous in their manifestations . |
| 9 | When we consider temperament in horses , and especially in families , it is most reasonable to look at the stallions in a family to get a more valid picture of the family characteristics , as stallions often exhibit traits of temperament to greater extremes than geldings and mares . |
| 10 | ‘ Economic and political groups in dominance often make use of majority and minority religious groups and issues for their own ends , ’ participants agreed . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mabel often quoted lines of poetry to make her point , and whether they came from Tennyson , Keats , Wordsworth or Rupert Brooke , she always prefaced them with ‘ As it says in the Bible . ’ |