Example sentences of "often [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Psychology also often shuts out female subjects from objective method , and leaves them to more qualitative approaches . |
| 2 | It is felt that allowing students more than one resit is too generous , unnecessary when they can often make up lost ground in subsequent terms , and allows the examinations office to timetable all resits in a single block at the beginning of examination week . |
| 3 | Geac maintains very conservative accounting standards and often writes off soft or non-cash assets when it buys a company to bring the acquisition 's books in line , he added . |
| 4 | His early predictions of independence should probably not be taken as settled opinions but rather as conversational ploys : he often tried out extreme views on his audience , to test their reactions or to play out scenarios in his own mind . |
| 5 | It was not a question requiring an answer — Weasel was a good friend from art school days and often dropped in unannounced . |
| 6 | She is also a singer and musician , and her talent as a pianist has often come in useful to teachers with specialist classes . |
| 7 | The snag is getting there : public transport often links up white suburbs with the city centre , but not with poor black segments in between . |
| 8 | Older people often give up sexual intercourse because it has become painful . |
| 9 | He scrapped segregated dining rooms and often walked around barefoot and in casual dress , eating bananas . |
| 10 | Gregarious , often feeding over fresh water . |
| 11 | I often use up leftover vegetables in a vegetable omelette or as part of a rice-based meal , a sort of risotto . |
| 12 | He often picks out distinct things which he notices and writes them down to make us ‘ see ’ for ourselves . |
| 13 | Complainants often end up disillusioned with the system of redress and angry with the whole medical profession ; and the doctor against whom the complaint was made is often also traumatised by the experience . |
| 14 | In essence , the effect of medically conceived interpretations and solutions has been to provide institutional care settings and services , often taking over pre-existing custodial arrangements , in which basic nursing care , supervision and protection have been provided , with drug therapy as the major planned ‘ intervention ’ or treatment . |
| 15 | ‘ People are often taken on short-term contracts , proper jobs are very hard to come by . |
| 16 | The prejudiced often write off whole groups of people as being unacceptable . |
| 17 | Trains often ran down main streets and early stations were sometimes no more than street corners . |
| 18 | Night Goblins often take over abandoned Dwarf strongholds to live in , and much of the ancient Dwarf Empire is now infested with these creatures . |
| 19 | I also referred to the child 's role as a productive member of the family ; children often take on real responsibility at an early age . |
| 20 | This publications audit will often turn up other interesting facts that you might have been unaware of like two departments doing exactly the same thing through different outside agencies or short runs being hammered out on page printers when they could have been more effectively produced on a photocopier or by a print shop . |
| 21 | And beer advertising has left the nation with the immortal phrase , ‘ It 's what your right arm 's for ’ , which often comes in handy when you 've gone too long without a laugh . |
| 22 | One useful trick that often comes in handy is to convert an entire spreadsheet to values . |