Example sentences of "often [verb] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simultaneously the work explores the very private , often hidden world of women 's personal everyday histories ; ‘ Each handbag has a particular personality of its own — on opening one a strong perfume filled the air , another was entirely practical , filled with hairpins and half a broken comb , a third contained a funeral card ’ . |
| 2 | And , while Darwin often made use of Gould 's observations on the characteristics and distribution of certain birds in his Origin of Species , Gould never broadcast his role as one of Darwin 's sources . |
| 3 | Illegal migrants who hide from authorities often became victims of crime or criminals , he said . |
| 4 | Illegal migrants who hide from authorities often became victims of crime or criminals , he said . |
| 5 | Organizations which set great store by behavioural conformity often develop patterns of operation which can appear ridiculous in their manifestations . |
| 6 | ‘ Economic and political groups in dominance often make use of majority and minority religious groups and issues for their own ends , ’ participants agreed . |
| 7 | Indeed , sites which were generally successful often attracted organs of government to them , as was the case with the cities and major towns , but in these and other instances it is always difficult to distinguish the primary function once it has been overlaid or mixed with others . |
| 8 | It was hard to believe that most of these islands were populated and we often caught glimpses of island ferries plying industriously between lonely rockbound piers . |
| 9 | One often forgotten drawback of aluminium structures is that you need to buy special clips and brackets if you want to add on accessories such as shelves and insulation . |
| 10 | The regular association of passive structures with adversity in certain languages means that the passive can often carry connotations of unpleasantness even when the event depicted is not normally seen as unpleasant . |
| 11 | My immediate neighbours were miners ; and in my walks on the hills , eating up time and taking the free air , I had often met groups of miners going along the old Roman road that ran along the spine of the hill above my home . |
| 12 | The bereaved often show signs of ill-health , which is not surprising since they usually feel quite ill in their minds and crushed by the burden of their sorrow . |
| 13 | As we shall see in the next chapter , there are those who believe that management have often adopted forms of work organisation which give rise to unsatisfying jobs because it is cheaper for them so to do . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Songs can teach , can reinforce the norms of the society and can often provide reassurance of order and continuity in confused and troubled times . |
| 16 | Both these very high counts were made from a boat rather than the shore , and experience suggests that counting from the shore in this harbour may often under-estimate numbers of Goldeneye . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The infant welfare movement , like the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children , whose inspectors also began to enter the working class home during the 1890s , too often interpreted lack of cleanliness as neglect . |
| 20 | Time spent is not recoverable , while improved performance will often enable recovery of money in the medium term ; thus time is the most scarce resource at the project manager 's disposal . |
| 21 | So I I would erm you know , quite often get bags of clothes , and s we sorted them out , and give them to people with erm quite large families and erm we used to also get some for the tenants ' association for the jumble sales . |
| 22 | This often requires analysis of parts of words — the elements in a compound like dog-sled , or the added meaning attributable to the suffix -er in opener compared to the verb open — over and above the sense of each word . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Analogously , the social sciences have often employed notions of equilibrium and of what is functional or dysfunctional for achieving and maintaining equilibrium . |
| 25 | We often hear talk of trains . |
| 26 | If Ferguson is really searching for someone to put the finishing touch to his team 's chances and not his own , he would be better offering the job to one of these often maligned stabbers-in of trifles . |
| 27 | Every effort should also be made to involve the family in giving support , particularly in breaking the pattern of denial that often surrounds cases of alcohol abuse . |
| 28 | Thus no attention is paid to the immense variety of types within the modes ( figured bass as against Wagnerian orchestral score , for example ; or esoteric ritual song , in which accurate memory is vital , as against collective-variative improvisation of epic ) ; or to the fact that many musical practices overreach the extent of a mode ( thus , improvisation remained important in much notated European music until the middle of the nineteenth century ; studio-based musicians quite often use forms of notation , when it suits their purposes ) . |
| 29 | Companies often use details of education to plot out salary curves and promotion prospects . |
| 30 | But thanks to pioneering research here at the John Radcliffe hospital , often involving transfusions of blood to the unborn baby , these children have survived . |