Example sentences of "often [verb] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In America , whether in or out of court , the managers who led the firm into the ditch often remain at the controls while it is pulled out . |
| 2 | Entry level electric guitars often suffer at the hands of cheap , toneless pickups . |
| 3 | Second , since intervention is often directed at the areas of relative weakness in a child 's linguistic abilities , it may be helpful to identify what these are and to what extent they are likely to impair the child 's ability to communicate in a variety of settings . |
| 4 | Schools are often bursting at the seams . |
| 5 | The mature leaves are deeply lobed , often curling at the edges . |
| 6 | In the House of Commons he responded to Tony Benn 's comment that ‘ despair and a sense of social injustice have often lain at the roots of civil disturbance ’ , by suggesting that Mr Benn was selective about which laws people ought to obey and went on to provide another explanation : |