Example sentences of "often [vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all parts of the country Wesleyan Methodism had become the chief alternative to the Established Church and in purely agricultural regions religious differences often amounted to a choice between either the Church of England or Wesleyan and Primitive Methodism . |
| 2 | The rationalism of their educational project is contingent on the supposed irrationalism of the racist subject — often conceptualized as a collective , class subject . |
| 3 | Politically , he often behaved like a bull in a china shop . |
| 4 | Wet moorlands — more correctly known as blanket bogs — often vegetated with a heather/cotton grass/cross-leaved heath or purple moor grass/deer sedge plant community , are not usually amenable to agricultural development on a significant scale . |
| 5 | All through the pages of Ramakrishna 's biography appears his gentle humour which often acted as a prelude to his flights of ecstasy . |
| 6 | Another important Sri Lankan official was the kachcheri mudaliyar , who was in charge of the kachcheri staff and who often acted as an interpreter . |
| 7 | His ministerial diary for the day often consisted of a lunch at a club and little else . |
| 8 | Frick hated being contradicted and often flew into a rage when put in such a position . |
| 9 | He often worked in a friend 's studio , and took his meals at Rosalie 's where he peeled potatoes or washed up to pay for the meals . |
| 10 | Nancy then told them , in so low a voice that the listener round the corner could hardly hear her , where Monks often went for a drink , and what he looked like . |
| 11 | Perhaps a certain detachment from puritan enthusiasm , an insistence on moderation and toleration on religious issues , defined the mentality that most often coincided with an interest in science in seventeenth-century England . |
| 12 | Indeed the problem was that fiscal and monetary policies designed to stimulate employment often resulted in a deterioration in the balance of payments under the then existing fixed exchange rate system . |
| 13 | Attlee , Macmillan , Wilson , and Callaghan often waited for a policy line in Cabinet discussion to emerge before committing themselves . |
| 14 | Monopoly evening papers often competed with a morning paper from elsewhere ( such as the Bradford Telegraph and Argus with the Yorkshire Post from Leeds ) , for morning papers circulated far more widely than the evenings . |
| 15 | Until 1939 he continued to teach medieval history , giving tutorials that often lasted for a couple of hours . |
| 16 | While still a baby , she often slept in a cot at his erotic theatre and she grew up in Soho . |
| 17 | I was very fond of these , and often wondered as a child why people did not consider them to be art . |