Example sentences of "often [verb] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A final twist is given to this situation ; the fact that women do all of this work is often given as an explanation of their inferiority . |
| 2 | Sir Thomas drank a lot of coffee , and as this is often given as an enema in atropine poisoning cases , it might have led to his being sick , perhaps even delayed the onset of symptoms . |
| 3 | Although often dismissed as an opponent of evolutionism , Owen can thus be seen as an opponent of Darwinism who was quite happy to accept a theory of evolution based on preordained trends . |
| 4 | Fierce loyalties to a professional club — often located outside an adolescent 's immediate territory as is the case with many Manchester United or Liverpool supporters attracted by playing success , glamour , and television coverage — create new juvenile communities , who briefly suspend hostilities at internationals in the cause of English chauvinism . |
| 5 | The seneschal or his lieutenant would often act as an arbitrator or third party in conflicts between nobles , or between communes and their neighbouring lords . |
| 6 | They often appear as an omen before storms , though they are more gentle-natured than mermaids . |
| 7 | He had often wished for an opportunity to try out this splendid tool in peaceful days gone by . |
| 8 | Pyrolysis — the imposition of high temperatures upon material in the absence of oxygen — is often presented as an alternative to incineration . |
| 9 | Mills were often built on an estuary where the water could be trapped upstream at high tide by sluice gates . |
| 10 | Such freedom , however , often results in an overloading of the student 's timetable . |
| 11 | Self-selection enables the customer to inspect goods without pressure , and this often results in an impulse purchase . |
| 12 | Gold prices are often seen as an indicator of inflation , a view reinforced by the high gold price during the inflationary years of the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 13 | Many gardeners — and visitors — are getting younger , partly because of the current ecological obsession and also because gardens are often seen as an extension of the living room . |
| 14 | The memorisation of the textbook is often seen as an end in itself . |
| 15 | Debt , as experienced by clients is often seen as an aspect of another problem . |
| 16 | A further problem is that no one is quite sure exactly what defines health care and social care , since an individual 's progress in responding to treatment is often measured by an improvement in the performance of social care tasks and everyday activities . |
| 17 | Another important Sri Lankan official was the kachcheri mudaliyar , who was in charge of the kachcheri staff and who often acted as an interpreter . |
| 18 | Some of these literary elements are part of the language and have their place in standard dictionaries : others are quasi-proverbial and often used without an awareness of their origin . |
| 19 | The influence of these latter , " exogenous " factors is so important that , for this reason , the level of infant mortality is often used as an index of development . |
| 20 | Boredom is often used as an excuse but according to sex specialist Dr Otto Kernberg it 's just a cover up for more complex reasons . |
| 21 | I understand it 's the only way in which these letters are arranged in the anglosaxon language and is often used as an example of such . |
| 22 | Note that the electron volt , which is often used as an energy unit , is equivalent to 8067 cm -1 . |
| 23 | This is often used as an argument in support of the view that universals ( as well as logical individuals ) can not be ontological existents . |
| 24 | It was a well-known story among City men and was often told as an example of what used to happen in the bad old days of ten years ago — and what , by implication , could never happen now . |
| 25 | Drew became less punctual , he muffed his lines , and was often replaced by an understudy . |
| 26 | But , although a professed and conforming Anglican , he was often reviled as an atheist . |
| 27 | The decision to accept ordinary shares may therefore often depend on an assessment of the economic situation , the company 's gearing level , its capacity for growth and its ability to service its debt . |
| 28 | The lease plan is often based on an extract from the Ordnance map . |
| 29 | The window is often reduced to an icon to save clutter in the Program Manager workspace . |
| 30 | But ill-articulated as many people 's thoughts sometimes are in substance , they often amount to an assumption of semi-voluntary performative submission to an authority , because it is a morally worthwhile attitude to have . |