Example sentences of "often [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drake often sits on water with tail cocked up . |
| 2 | With the development of Imperial architecture and the need for large public gatherings in baths and basilicas the space was more often vaulted with brick and concrete . |
| 3 | By 1975 , this had all changed : reports , features and editorials now concentrated on protecting the Army 's image and portraying the IRA as ‘ criminals or mindless psychopaths often manipulated by Godfathers behind the scenes ’ ( ibid.:39 ) . |
| 4 | We often got into trouble with foreign seamen that came there and they started making up to the Chinamen 's wives . |
| 5 | Unsurprisingly , dinner-table talk often turns to incorporation and limited liability . |
| 6 | Still , by developing a historical materialist theory of musical development which in principle rebuts reductionism , both economistic and formalistic , Adorno 's general position opened up new ground , in ways which often remain of value . |
| 7 | Compared to states or executives , governments tend to be of short duration — state institutions often remain in existence for long periods and officials in the executive may have lifelong careers , while governments come and go ( although some of their personnel may hold office in more than one government ) . |
| 8 | They claim the animals often suffer from deformities and illnesses , and bitches are shot when they 're no longer able to produce puppies . |
| 9 | Writers often distinguish between management and leadership . |
| 10 | Theologians often distinguish between God as he is in himself , and God as he has revealed himself to us . |
| 11 | Such thefts often arose from grants of benefices known as precariae ( from preces , the " prayer " or " request " which had to be offered by the recipient ) on church lands . |
| 12 | The Independent Companies were intended to be a ship-based force slipping ashore to harass German communications and cut the supply line of Swedish ore , but they often fought as infantry because the Allies had no other troops available ; an unavoidable reason for deploying special forces in this role in Norway . |
| 13 | Their presence or absence in discourse often contributes to style , and some conjunctions can sound very pompous when used inappropriately . |
| 14 | Perhaps he was going to Porteneil to get drunk in the Rock Hotel , or perhaps he was off to Inverness , where he often goes on business he prefers to keep mysterious , but I suspected that it was really something to do with Eric . |
| 15 | He never stops talking about it and often goes to Elland Road . |
| 16 | To keep warm she often goes to Plus One , a single parents ' organisation . |
| 17 | One often goes to extremes in order to arrive at a physical configuration that is mathematically soluble by simple means . |
| 18 | When the glider is desperately low the pilot 's handling often goes to pieces , and he may over-rudder in an effort to get round a final turn without touching a wing-tip or turning any steeper . |
| 19 | However , since so few children attended some of these types of school , d is often calculated from proportions at the extremes of the scale ; if we rank the class exclusivity of schools on the basis of the magnitude of the d s , we seem to be told that the secondary moderns were the most selective , followed by the grammar schools . |
| 20 | It was a quality often recalled by Oxford contemporaries . |
| 21 | Being further from Manchester than other areas often favoured by businesses , such as Wilmslow and Altrincham , Congleton offered cheaper rent and rates to the company and cheaper housing for relocating employees . |
| 22 | Five of them feature as their main character Inspector Alan Grant , a gentleman police officer in the style often favoured by women writers , ‘ not coarse like a bobby ’ and with independent means ‘ to smooth and embroider life ’ . |
| 23 | Group work ( often favoured by teachers in informal schools ) was used to develop individual gifts and abilities . |
| 24 | The reconstruction of extinct species from fossil bones was often undertaken by museum workers , who were thus disposed to see development through time as the unfolding of purely formal relationships between successive species . |
| 25 | Oil is used to massage Bangladeshi babies after bathing , increasing their tactile stimulation ; this task is often undertaken by grandmothers . |
| 26 | The neotropical fern Solanopteris bifrons has complex rhizomatous sacs in which ants leave debris and then roots enter while detritus traps of many ferns with polymorphic leaves are often inhabited by ants : the ants get nectar from nectaries on the fronds . |
| 27 | We have used them to great effect from boats or for getting baits in under trees or undercut banks where casting has been impossible but the wind has helped to carry the bait into inaccessible areas often inhabited by pike . |
| 28 | This means that the basis of all single bed tucks must be single stitches , often placed in groups spaced one needle apart , producing the overall pattern . |
| 29 | Cameras are often placed behind staff at cash tills , particularly in bars . |
| 30 | Engineers often introduce into factories new electronic machinery not because it is better than the old methods but to give management the upper hand over the workers |