Example sentences of "the [noun] often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These places on a water that attract casual anglers and , therefore , receive a lot of bait during the daytime often fish well after nightfall . |
| 2 | Time- asymmetry thus implies that while the terrain was undergoing upheaval new types of animal arose through a feedback process , because they needed the land for further food , and because the waxing and waning ice-ages together with ( or as a result of ) the early breakup and reformation of the continents often had major and fatal consequences for marine and land faunas . |
| 3 | He makes an inventory of forms , but not of contexts in which the forms arise — this would be a very difficult task as the forms often overlap and can cause confusion to the learner . |
| 4 | What little the labourers often had they sought to preserve , supported frequently by local tradesmen and small farmers who feared the end of their contracts with the parish overseers . |
| 5 | Others close to the Prince often described his friendship with Camilla as ‘ the biggest love story that never was ’ . |
| 6 | Bollards are prone to sudden collapse , and the ropes often jam in the groove behind the capstan during retrieval . |
| 7 | I 've never measured how long they stay under water , but tourists walking along the path to the waterfall often report that they think a bird is drowning ! |
| 8 | This is a phenomenon which most of us experience from time to time , particularly when performing a highly practised task like driving a car or using a keyboard , and which the clinician often feels presents in exaggerated form in certain neurological conditions . |
| 9 | The writer often called the tune and imposed his ideas on the art director and visualiser , as a junior art director was then called . |
| 10 | The white foamy part of a broken wave is largely made up of air bubbles and the board often digs into it rather than riding over it . |
| 11 | I mentioned that the patterns often arise from a ‘ hurt ’ . |
| 12 | Its disadvantages , on the other hand , include ( a ) its partial circularity : theme is whatever comes in initial position and whatever comes in initial position is theme ; and ( b ) its failure to relate descriptions of SVO languages , particularly those with relatively fixed word order such as English , to descriptions of languages with relatively free word order in which , for instance , the verb often occurs in initial position . |
| 13 | Additionally , the cities often contain much larger numbers of the elderly than national figures would suggest , and far fewer from the higher socio-economic categories . |
| 14 | We therefore take account of the fact that the programmer often wants ( especially in scientific computing ) to do further operations on the result of an operation , and consequently this result can be held in a storage register in the processor , the accumulator . |
| 15 | Victoria 's genius in the Tenbrae Responses is to set the text to music of simple strength , built on memorable melodic lines in which the text often receives one note per syllable . |
| 16 | Says Nina : ‘ If it 's a girl the courts often deem she needs her mum 's influence . |
| 17 | The courts often sit for months over scientific questions — for example , whether whooping cough vaccine caused brain damage — and the GMC may imagine itself stuck with cases lasting months and costing millions . |
| 18 | Moreover , care orders have been obtained on the education ground without much difficulty , the courts often taking the view that if the child was not receiving a suitable education it was likely that the separate care and control test would almost certainly have been satisfied . |
| 19 | When interpreting statutes the courts often announce that they are trying to discover ‘ the intention of the legislature . ’ |
| 20 | No hospital order will be made where the defendant is said to have recovered , and the courts often feel it necessary to impose a prison sentence in such cases . |
| 21 | When , at the end of the Second World War , France was liberated , those who had collaborated excessively with the Germans often had their hair cut off by the French Resistance . |
| 22 | It might well fit into the category often referred to as ‘ bootlegging ’ . |
| 23 | Hence the excuse often heard from a student ‘ But I am sure that I learnt that in the school ! ’ |
| 24 | A subfamily of the Ophiacanthidae with small imbricating transparent scales or skin covering the disk , the scales often armed with spinelets or granules which may obscure them ; the disk sack-like , sometimes indented interradially ; the radial shields not integrated with the disk but over laid by the scales or skin covering the disk with only their distal ends evident ; the jaws as broad as long ; one to several apical papillae flanked by three to many oral papillae each side ; tentacle pores not conspicuously large usually armed with at least one tentacle scale ; arm spines vary in length but dorsal ones usually longer than one arm segment , sometimes forming a fan on proximal arm segments . |
| 25 | Deposition of the endocuticle often occurs in daily growth-layers ( Neville , 1963 ) . |
| 26 | The literature often focuses excessively upon officer-councillor relationships , thereby overlooking the very different roles which councillors themselves adopt . |
| 27 | Comments showed that the success or otherwise of the groups often rested on their shoulders . |
| 28 | The experience often leads to depression and serious illness ; indeed many people die shortly after retiring . |
| 29 | As we have seen , the difficulty often lies not in obtaining tokens of a variable , but in obtaining the full range of realizations associated with it . |
| 30 | The rules often have no logic . |