Example sentences of "be often [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transactions are often completed in the middle of the night . |
| 2 | Transactions are often completed in the middle of the night . |
| 3 | Family-trees ( genealogies ) similar to this one are often given in the Bible attesting a line of descent . |
| 4 | Contracts are often written in the future tense , presumably on the basis that they refer to acts to be performed in the future . |
| 5 | This could also be because women with unexplained lower abdominal pain are often referred in the first instance to gynaecologists , who may not consider an intestinal cause until they have removed the pelvic organs . |
| 6 | Sound deadening panels are often fitted in the form of bitumastic paint on the underside to reduce water drumming during filling . |
| 7 | They are often advertised in the newspapers as ‘ bomb proof ! ’ ; no matter what occurs they will just continue their mild sweet way as if nothing had ever happened . |
| 8 | Research opportunities are often advertised in The Economist . |
| 9 | Time and empathy are often lacking in the doctor-patient encounter ; high-tech medicine sometimes turns patients into numbers labelled with a diagnosis ; and since many diseases have become curable , some patients expect a cure for all ailments . |
| 10 | In the civilised West , pigs are often kept in the kind of compact packaging that they 'll still be in when they 're sausages and bacon . |
| 11 | Letters are often lost in the post . ’ |
| 12 | For this reason the report is followed by an Appendix , to which references are often made in the text . |
| 13 | The state of Wisconsin is basing its appeal on the fact that intent and emotion — passion , envy , fear — are often weighed in the balance in sentencing already . |
| 14 | Willie McCrea , Ethel Smyth , and Ivan Foster are often found in the forefront of such confrontations . |
| 15 | These states are often found in the child and it is this emotional picture that will usually indicate the remedy . |
| 16 | They were , however , very much more abundant 350 million years ago and their fossils are often found in the same sort of deposits that contain coelacanths . |
| 17 | Although twice as high a proportion of tropical plants contain potentially toxic alkaloids compared with extra-tropical ones and , although these are often concentrated in the young tissues of plants , insects specializing on such tissues may have rather unsophisticated problems compared with those feeding on mature leaves , where so much ‘ secondary chemistry ’ is manifest . |
| 18 | The textiles themselves are normally known as a result of being preserved by corrosion , where they have been in contact with metal objects in graves ; wood and leather are often preserved in the same manner . |
| 19 | These phrases are often embellished in the text with modifiers and slight variations ( often , usually , also , mainly ) which give some extra information to readers of the dictionary . |
| 20 | It may be noticed that insensibility both to moral appeals and to appeals to one 's future interests , imprisonment within both ‘ I ’ and ‘ Now ’ , are often combined in the same person , and that the combination is widely accepted as the strongest criterion for classing him as ‘ psychopathic ’ and exempting him from moral judgment . |
| 21 | At the local level , where departments are often housed in the same buildings , and where officers and councillors — as well as prominent local interest group officials , journalists , council ‘ clients ’ ( headmasters , businessmen , builders , and so on ) — live in the same locality , the informal dimension is especially important and should not be obscured by undue emphasis on formal hierarchies . |
| 22 | Specialised roots are often encountered in the garden . |
| 23 | The Belouch nomads who roam the borderlands of Persia and Afghanistan are often included in the general Turkoman group , although their rugs are sufficiently different in character and appearance to warrant a separate classification . |
| 24 | There are other distinctions and sophistications which are often included in the model . |
| 25 | Interdigitating dendritic cells are therefore believed to function primarily as antigen presenting cells , although they are often included in the generic term ‘ macrophages ’ . |
| 26 | Cars and lorries of all sizes are often used in the same way , with roadways , intersections , bridges and unloading bays made from blocks or other materials . |
| 27 | Even if sociologists do not actually provide a solution themselves , their data are often used in the formulation of policy by others . |
| 28 | The following woodwind instruments , in addition to those described above , are often used in the full orchestra . |
| 29 | Fats of vegetable origin , mainly polyunsaturated , are often used in the cooking process . |
| 30 | They are often used in the paints they mix for the illuminated manuscripts . ’ |