Example sentences of "often [verb] an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Furthermore , one country 's legal system often constitutes an impediment to another country 's attempts to gather information necessary to pursue a domestic case against a transnational corporation .
2 The prognathous condition often involves an inclination of the occipital foramen or the latter may retain its transverse position owing to an elongation of the ventral region of the head .
3 The situation is not that we always have confirmed hypotheses , and sometimes or often lack an enumeration of the elements of a causal circumstance .
4 Against this monologic Amis can be set , by way of alter ego , the modernistic Amis of Barbara Everett 's discussion of Difficulties with girls , which occurred in the course of an essay on Hugh Kenner 's fantasy of a British betrayal of Modernism , and which springs the surprise of conveying that Amis , so often supposed an enemy of Modernism , is really a Modernist .
5 A report is similar to an essay but often contains an account of a discussion , the summary findings of a piece of research or of the literature on a given theme .
6 Similar principles apply in the case of bonuses , which often involve an element of profit sharing .
7 Such training often has an emphasis on features such as style and quality rather than mere speed of activity .
8 The numbers of bands in the spectra of initial , intermediate and final samples will often give an indication of the numbers and relative positions of CO ligands .
9 Senior state officials , and to some extent political leaders , very often receive an education in political history , constitutional law , and administrative practice ; political scientists and sociologists ( though less frequently than economists ) become advisers to government departments and agencies ; sociological research is carried out to assist in making policy decisions .
10 ‘ Many companies , however successful , tend to be somewhat inbred and for this reason people often welcome an injection of new thinking into their affairs . ’
11 The establishment of a new academic library often affords an insight into the way collections measure up to such standards as exist .
12 Jacobite pamphlets often reflected an awareness of the mixed nature of their support .
13 Lecturers often give an overview at the start of a lecture and a summary at the end .
14 Yet you can often recognize an adult by the way he or she walks .
15 This often forms an exception to the normal turn sequence , because the enemy may move to within 8″ during his turn .
16 The NUM is firmly based within a definite branch of the division of labour , although it cuts across enterprise ( i. e. colliery ) boundaries and although its political interventions often find an echo in other branches .
17 As do some mainstream poets , both groups of submerged poets often manifest an awareness of the body and of the physical world in which it lives .
18 Mainstream psychology often attributes an agency to working-class , gay and black women that it does not allow to men in these groups .
19 If you are on the water just before daybreak you will often get an idea of the cyprinid population of the water especially on the smaller drains .
20 For example I often paint an area with retouching varnish mixed with pigment as a glaze , then I absorb much of it with newspaper dabbed onto the canvas .
21 His attractive , well-stocked garden overlooks open country towards Guisborough and often becomes an extension of his studio .
22 A quick partial water change will often effect an improvement in a matter of hours .
23 In particular , surplus countries often neutralized an inflow of gold by preventing it from adding to the domestic money supply .
24 Dealers have pumped these out to clients who often have an aversion to OTC ( too risky ) and to listed stocks ( too boring ) .
25 Beth Wilson disagrees , ‘ I think women often have an ideal of the perfect man , and if he scores nine out of 10 , then it 's far too much a temptation not to want to try to change that last little bit . ’
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