Example sentences of "often [verb] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In both Europe and the USA we know that patients are too often relegated to palliative care instead of being referred to an oncologist for possibly curative treatment . |
| 32 | His bluntness , often amounting to personal abuse , has won Australia 's treasurer ( finance minister ) few friends . |
| 33 | A cause and a cure can be found for some of the illnesses of old age , and depression often responds to suitable treatment and sympathetic handling . |
| 34 | Writers often refer to uneven development between sectors , for example , or between firms within a sector . |
| 35 | Throughout 1987 , the music papers constantly referred to The Wedding Present as The Smiths ' second favourite group , and they were often compared to each other . |
| 36 | To block out the adults , youth is often driven to absurd behaviour and appearance . |
| 37 | People often talk to each other in order to lower their territorial barriers , to indulge in the pleasure of rapport , the sharing of common ground . |
| 38 | The Church rejoiced in its ‘ unity in diversity ’ manifested in the various rites that witnessed to the richness of ‘ catholicity ’ ( so often reduced to bland uniformity ) . |
| 39 | Text recognition systems developed to date have been mainly concerned with the pattern recognition level , and the use of higher level information is often restricted to some form of lexical analysis . |
| 40 | An extreme example of parental involvement in children 's sports is the phenomenon which Dorcas Susan Butt calls the ‘ sports parent ’ , the parent ‘ who pushes the child onward in the sport … sometimes encourages the youngster and sometimes criticizes , and will often go to any degree to further the child 's interests … the parent 's main interest is to maximize the performance and benefits of his or her own child ’ ( 1976 , p. 120 ) . |
| 41 | For instance , childhood conduct disorder may often lead to anti-social behaviour in adulthood , but this may reflect either the continuity of the disorder or the different effects of the same social stress acting first upon a child and later upon an adult ( Graham , 1983 ) . |
| 42 | More significantly , it is not always possible to transfer these increased costs onto the consumers , the newspaper-buying public : newspapers are competitive products and one newspaper 's increase in costs can often lead to another newspaper putting on circulation as readers switch titles . |
| 43 | I do n't very often go to National Hunt racing , but I went to Ascot one Friday , and had a most enjoyable afternoon . |
| 44 | In the past advice and training had often led to increased production . |
| 45 | This need to deal with a tricky political environment has often led to managerial centralization of decisions that may have political overtones , and a consensual style of leadership based around committee structures ( e.g. Batstone et al. |
| 46 | Feminists often turn to psychological research on gender to answer their questions , but they find its male orientation disappointing . |
| 47 | The day-to-day administration , however , is often left to professional management companies . |
| 48 | People with families , sometimes where both partners are working , are very busy people , often talking to each other only when doing a hundred and one other things too . |
| 49 | The bureaucracy is the means by which inequalities are enforced without too often resorting to physical coercion . |
| 50 | Because they lead somewhat unusual lives , college teachers are often subjected to this type of elaborate caricature . |
| 51 | SINGERS and musicians on television often mime to pre-recorded tape tracks , because that way the studio set is n't cluttered with microphones . |
| 52 | As the statistics in Table 8 indicate , heavy physical work during pregnancy ( see for instance the categories of unskilled labourers and unskilled construction workers ) more often lead to premature birth than conditions of other occupations . |
| 53 | Synthetic devices often lead to this type of mnemonics . |