Example sentences of "a [noun] often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A function often carries out a number of actions , but it always produces a single result . |
| 2 | The fact that the interpretation of a sentence often requires a listener or speaker to go beyond literal meaning was first highlighted in psycholinguistics by Johnston , Bransford and Solomon ( 1973 ) . |
| 3 | Modrow entitled his proposals " For Germany , united fatherland " , using a slogan often chanted by East German demonstrators . |
| 4 | When practice first begins on the patterns , a beginner often loses direction instantly and executes a block or a kick to the wrong side . |
| 5 | And they imply divorce when what was achieved during the seventeenth century was a differentiation often conducted on theological grounds . |
| 6 | Systematic use of a checklist often reveals faults in work design such as inadequate access , visibility and labelling . |
| 7 | This is a technique often used that leads to a quick and simple answer . |
| 8 | Their inherent vulnerability in many societies — a condom often costs more than a prostitute — is often encouraged in political manipulations of religious precepts . |
| 9 | General pictures of what happens during the middle years are inevitably flawed , but they suggest that a change often takes place in marriage at that time and that for many people satisfactions come from sources outside the couple 's relationship . |
| 10 | Mathematical perspective of a Renaissance sort had not been used in European medieval art , where the size of a figure often derives from the person 's importance , God the father never being small . |
| 11 | Conditions then vary from those in which the cultural institutions and their producers are wholly subordinated to general state policy — a condition often made harsher by full or attempted monopoly of all means of cultural production — to more nuanced situations in which , while general policy direction is exercised , the practical relations are not significantly different from those in modern patronal and intermediate bodies , which of course also , in varying ways , have general policy directions in accordance with the social order in which they are working . |
| 12 | A term often applied to a large group system is an organisation and these are usually created to accomplish a specific purpose , for example a hospital is organised for the treatment of people with disease ; and is perhaps within a yet larger organisation , a national health service , which in addition is responsible for maintenance of health , prevention of disease and rehabilitation . |
| 13 | It is a term often used in the description of military medals and badges . |
| 14 | Early or semi-retired people or housewives looking for a break often welcome a different four walls and a fresh interest . |
| 15 | A number of reviews of Karajan 's early recordings with the Philharmonia Orchestra were written by the precociously gifted Andrew Porter , a critic often quoted by the anti-Karajan lobby or adulatory biographers looking to add some grist to the mill . |
| 16 | Couples that do decide to have a child often prefer boys . |
| 17 | It was a question often put to her ; she was careful not to let the answer sound too glib . |
| 18 | The management will also be asked to give certain non-competition undertakings , of a type often found in service agreements , but which are more likely to be enforceable if incorporated in an investment agreement . |
| 19 | In an experienced large fleet everyone is so keen to get a good start that a bulge often forms . |
| 20 | The joints in a timber lock-gate or the eroding mortar of a sluice often provide congenial conditions for gipsywort or skullcap , with its clear blue flowers . |
| 21 | I think erm , often when judges , I do n't know whether George or any other judges that might be here tonight , one of the things which I as a judge often dread is photographs of babies coming up in competition . |
| 22 | Announcing a campaign often boosts sales to the trade , because forthcoming television advertising may persuade grocers , for example , to stock up so that they can meet the extra demand . |
| 23 | As a general rule , a purchaser often has more freedom and grounds to withdraw from a transaction than a reasonably committed vendor . |
| 24 | ‘ A refusal often offends . |
| 25 | After her poem drew one in reply , Ella Wrote an article in prose in the next issue in which she put a point often made in the later period ( see Chapters 5 and 7 ) by women workers , and one which is central to the debate on women 's pay generally . |
| 26 | However , the individual concerned would find it difficult to obtain credit in the future — a point often overlooked by those who advocated the system . |
| 27 | The answer is that , despite his biographer 's sterling efforts to dig up neat psychoanalytic excuses for even his most venal sins , a Dickens often given to kindness , empathy and geniality but more predominantly disposed to be cruel , self-centred , self-pitying and sententious does not come over as an especially lovable specimen . |
| 28 | Tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano ( b. 1952 ) has in some respects come up the hard way ; passing the 40-year mark last year , he 's nevertheless a craftsman often overlooked in the public eye in favour of younger more ‘ marketable ’ musicians . |
| 29 | The LCC was first established in 1978 to campaign on policy issues , especially withdrawal from the EBC , more nationalization and stronger efforts to reduce unemployment , a package often known as the alternative economic strategy . |
| 30 | Gradually the walls collapse , a process often accelerated by the penetration of plant and tree roots between the stones . |