Example sentences of "often [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such places , ditches , which have a critical job to do in carrying away flood-water , are often filled up to the top with loose soil , following a ‘ blow ’ . |
| 2 | For Tagalogs , it is a rather amoral possibility : violent individuals are respected , but there is a less than human quality about them and violent acts are often carried out under the cover of a real or assumed drunkenness . |
| 3 | In brief , requisitioning was unpopular , not least since it was often carried out in the period between spring and autumn when trading and fishing conditions might normally be expected to be better than at other times of the year . |
| 4 | Routine maintenance work is often carried out in the early hours at the centre when workmen can avoid causing disruption to shoppers . |
| 5 | He was hitting huge distances down wind but his shots to the green failed to bite and often rolled on into the rough beyond . |
| 6 | This is often picked up by the programmers , who then make the system more secure . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm afraid that my husband is often caught up at the hospital and so I simply do n't know whether he will be free . ’ |
| 8 | Anyone resident in a house could be held liable for the support of other household members , which meant that a wage-earning son or daughter often moved out of the home in order not to diminish the unemployed parents ' entitlement to benefit . |
| 9 | This is the flat leaf of powdery chalk , the cuttle bone , that is often washed up on the seashore . |
| 10 | Their quarterly meetings were anodyne affairs , chaired by a genial buffer named George Mackie ( later Lord Mackie of Benshie ) , whose deliberations were too often bogged down in the drearier aspects of Liberal Party policy . |
| 11 | The success of a system is often bound up with the success of the state that is its main proponent . |
| 12 | Where a large number of female cats are kept together in a cattery , observers have noticed that the kittens born there are often shared out between the mothers . |
| 13 | The original monastery physic gardens were fairly plain , with rectangular or square beds in lines , but as time went on , and private households began to grow their own medicinal cures , food flavourings and fragrances , the sites devoted to herbs became more elaborate , until they were often laid out in the " knot " style , an intricate arrangement of beds said to have taken its name originally from the lover 's knot . |
| 14 | The reactions produced are often summed up as the flight or fight response . |
| 15 | The use of Western skills to strengthen Japan , often summed up in the slogan ‘ Western technology , Japanese values ’ , was a course of action supported by many . |
| 16 | Another frequent problem is that brood mares are often brought in from the paddock about a month before the horse is due to foal , and are put in a little paddock next to the owner 's house so that ‘ an eye can be kept on her . ’ |
| 17 | Moreover , the largest areas that are affected ( Table 7.1 ) are rangelands where overgrazing is the major culprit though , as Cloudsley-Thompson ( 1988 ) has discussed , this is often brought about by the encroachment on grazing lands by cash-crop farmers . |
| 18 | This is perfectly normal when the body goes through the physiological changes which are often brought about by the Technique . |
| 19 | Unemployed women are often defined out of the labour market by structures and ideologies which regulate that market . |
| 20 | Only a few rural areas , isolated by bad roads and non-existent railways , remained relatively untouched , but even these , by virtue of their isolation , were often gobbled up by the equally voracious demand for holiday homes and weekend cottages . |
| 21 | Many appeared to be visibly drunk at matches and were often thrown out by the police for this reason . |
| 22 | Always in the cinema , always wisecracking , often thrown out before the end of the film , but always back next time . |
| 23 | The American critic W. Stephen Bush reflected on how the poor and lowly had only been tolerated in the theatre and all too often forced up into the gallery , but the movies had ‘ emancipated the gallery ’ and had ‘ wiped out for ever the odium and ridicule ’ that had always been shown towards its clientele . |
| 24 | This responsibility is often taken on by the detergent suppliers who takes care of the chemicals , dosing equipment and the minor repairs and adjustments on the machine . |
| 25 | Paupers were often taken back from the workhouse to their own parishes for burial . |
| 26 | Many parents feel that the speed of education reform and curriculum change has caused their children to suffer because their usual classroom or subject teachers are often taken out of the classroom to undergo courses related specifically to those changes . |
| 27 | On the whole , most of us lead very sedentary lives these days and are often put off by the thought of taking exercise . |
| 28 | Moreover , the struggles between the two parties were often fought out in the local arena , at the annual elections of town magistrates , sheriffs and parish officials . |
| 29 | My drawings often ended up on the classroom wall . |
| 30 | Every town of importance possessed its theatre most of which had been built in Hellenistic times often carved out of the hillside but fronted by a stage building and proscenium platform . |