Example sentences of "often [verb] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On conventional free range poultry units , the birds are often given an open field to wander over . |
| 2 | In many large churches , built to enable the greatest possible numbers to attend Sunday Mass , the circumstances of worship too often hinder an effective liturgy of the Word . |
| 3 | The same failure to push out of defence quickly and as a unit when clearing their lines , which gives the goalkeeper a clearer view and often wins an offside decision , helped Gannon score a well-taken winner , also from outside the penalty area . |
| 4 | It is significant that auction houses often sell an interesting example with the caveat ‘ as a binding , not subject to return ’ , meaning that they do not guarantee the contents of the book which , in such cases , are of secondary importance . |
| 5 | Senior and middle managers in schools often lack an explicit management role . |
| 6 | It does not matter how successful a person can be , there often lingers an unhealed wound from early childhood which haunts them . |
| 7 | The church planting team often has an obvious opportunity to get involved with secular organisations in that it will often meet in a secular building . |
| 8 | As stated earlier , certain plants were said to have supernatural powers , often revealing an interesting combination of Christian and pagan beliefs in the one element . |
| 9 | From the beginning heads of missions had had secretaries who often played an important role ; but these had been recruited and paid by the diplomats themselves and had been merely their personal servants . |
| 10 | Near-spent batteries will often give an initial surge when the machine is first switched on and a ‘ battery okay ’ signal is no guide at all to their stamina . |
| 11 | Many women with no desire to reject the social round and daily duties expected of middle class wives , but who still deplored idleness as the antithesis of duty , often made an explicit link between their idea of duty and their spiritual responsibilities . |
| 12 | I have often felt an uncomfortable sense of voyeurism over Oprah Winfrey 's machine-tooled confessionals . |
| 13 | The solid emptying plots started with a straight line section but often suffered an abrupt increase in slope at between 45 and 90 minutes . |
| 14 | The Codsall model , which included substantial departmental collections closely coordinated by a central collection and organization , avoided this danger but , by its heavy concentration on production of new materials , provided no incentive for the teacher to consult or seek material already available from published sources ; this can often provide an educational input which is both high in quality and economical in teacher effort , in the time spent in laborious production . |
| 15 | Standing stones on their own , in groups , or in circular henge patterns often seem an integral part of the rocky landscape , growing out of the earth itself or lying at ease upon it ; but the work of human hands can be detected in the cup-and-ring decorations on some , the geometrical arrangement of others . |
| 16 | In general his foregrounds were not very successful and indeed often seem an irrelevant hangover from his classical training . |
| 17 | Terrorists often used an athletic stopwatch as a timing device . |
| 18 | Do n't often see an older man in white white jumpers . |
| 19 | His frequent appeals to ‘ scientific concepts ’ and ‘ scientific ideas ’ often presuppose an unambiguous definition of science and one that is atemporal . |
| 20 | In claims that one tradition rather than another led to scientific innovation , one often detects an apologetic intention . |
| 21 | It is often called an eclipsing variable , though it should more properly be described as an eclipsing binary . |
| 22 | When admission has taken place , however , the legacy of public and professional attitudes towards parents whose children have entered public care often appears an insur-mountable obstacle to any further constructive contact between parents and their children . |
| 23 | Though in a vulnerable position , Dustin was never afraid to speak his mind in a forceful manner , often having an alienating effect on directors . |
| 24 | With such decorations as Christmas scenes they often brought an additional touch of jollity at special festivities . |
| 25 | The quality of ‘ education in the round ’ is to be found at its most developed in the small village school where the teachers so often become an integral part of the community in which they work . |
| 26 | A large room often presents an uneconomic use of space — particularly when a growing family is involved . |
| 27 | However semantic change often gives an unexpected bonus , which one should accept in this case as in others . |
| 28 | They often carry an active microbiota of bacteria , algae , nematodes and other creatures that mediate slow decomposition and the incorporation of organic materials into the soil ( Figure 3.6D ) . |
| 29 | When you have these on either side of a path it often indicates an ancient trackway or road of some description . |
| 30 | In particular , prepositions , which are part of the closed class because of the fixed size of their numbers and their grammatical function , often express an essential aspect of the meaning of an utterance . |