Example sentences of "often [verb] by [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the fact that serious crime was often punished by confiscation of all the malefactor 's possessions must have been a sore temptation , and doubtless tended to prejudice kings towards verdicts of guilty . |
| 2 | The welfare gains from decentralization are often considered by reference to those deadweight losses that result from centralization ( Oates 1972 ) . |
| 3 | With new acts , a brief biography is also often included by way of introduction . |
| 4 | Anomalous aspects of nature often venerated by ritual over long periods of time become charged with the directed mental/ psychic energy of their race . |
| 5 | Expansion of population was often solved by sub-division of plots and infilling of open spaces , particularly markets . |
| 6 | The continued process is often accentuated by disappointment in the other because of an earlier idealization . |
| 7 | Coniferous forests , often hunting by day for mammals as large as squirrels and lemmings . |
| 8 | Forests , coniferous , deciduous and mixed , sometimes in villages and large cities , often hunting by day for mammals up to the size of a red squirrel and birds up to the size of a Hazelhen. 24 in. ( 61 cm . ) . |
| 9 | The performance of lexical access is often measured by number of words correctly identified . |
| 10 | The old lady who dare not allow herself to be more than a few yards from the toilet or the old man whose underclothes are frequently wet with urine , may often react by limitation of social life and consequent days of isolation and low morale … |
| 11 | Often softened by nostalgia for what they recall as the security of their ‘ training days ’ , I have heard older nurses enthuse about the cosiness and order of day to day nursing . |
| 12 | It is often accompanied by die-back of shoot tips early in the year . |
| 13 | In the immediate post-war period down to the mid-1950s there were endless external difficulties as the economy tried to recover from the strains of the war ; balance-of-payments crises of a severe kind in 1949 , 1951 , and 1955 , often accompanied by pressure on sterling , were endemic . |
| 14 | There is a small transparent species of rock anemone ( Aiptasia species , below ) which is often introduced by accident into the aquarium on pieces of living rock which can deliver a sting equal to any of the larger species . |
| 15 | Calves may show clinical signs during the prepatent period and occasionally a massive infection can cause severe dyspnoea of sudden onset often followed by death in 24-48 hours . |
| 16 | She often went by train to some distant party beyond the reach of horses . |
| 17 | Learning is a strategy that is potentially available , but its use is often prohibited by lack of time and money . |
| 18 | Soft-bodied , voracious molluscs that often shelter by day beneath leaves and plant debris , and feed at night . |
| 19 | Bad habits in horses are often triggered by association with something else or by expectation . |