Example sentences of "often [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mushroom polyps will often reproduce in the aquarium under good conditions . |
| 2 | Instead , she writes of those ordinary people who make the miracle , and often suffer in the process : the sarariman painfully climbing the corporate ladder ; the schoolchildren taught to prefer homework to sleep ; the housewives left alone with their drudgery . |
| 3 | Oh yes , it often irritates in the same way when you first start to drink spirits you feel |
| 4 | Mr Norman has more than one Ferrari , uses his Aston Martin as often as the Rolls-Royce but admits that Laura , his wife , often goes in the family Range Rover to have her hair done . |
| 5 | Stream of consciousness and a variety of other devices are used to transcribe an inner mental world at the expense of the external social experience most often favoured in the conventional , realistic forms of earlier fiction . |
| 6 | Transactions are often completed in the middle of the night . |
| 7 | Transactions are often completed in the middle of the night . |
| 8 | I often sit in the dunes |
| 9 | I think it is the critical statements , rather than the words of praise , that are more often uttered in the hearing of girls . |
| 10 | For years , US judges have relied on the standard , dating back to 1923 and too often honoured in the breach , defining admissible evidence as that which derives from methods of inquiry that are ‘ generally accepted ’ by the scientific community . |
| 11 | Family-trees ( genealogies ) similar to this one are often given in the Bible attesting a line of descent . |
| 12 | This could also be because women with unexplained lower abdominal pain are often referred in the first instance to gynaecologists , who may not consider an intestinal cause until they have removed the pelvic organs . |
| 13 | For weeks , staying in youth hostels and living off substantial farmhouse teas , I wandered the Dales in all weathers , often struggling in the fine morning drizzle along high paths that led only into the clouds , then turning , rewarded , to watch the sunlight dipping through the hills and valleys as the rain stopped , glistening on the crags and throwing giant shadows on the slopes . |
| 14 | In fact , Daphne often sleeps in the elephant hut , cuddling the babies and supervising their feeds . |
| 15 | He often sleeps in the study rather than in the big bedroom on the second floor , where mine is . |
| 16 | The purpose of the organization is often explained in the language of ‘ goals ’ . |
| 17 | The musical genius of the Bach family for instance , which was so noticeable , that in that part of Germany where the Bachs lived , the word Bach which actually means brook , started to mean musician , because there were so many of them , er , that kind of inheritance of musical ability , was often explained in the past , as inheritance of acquired characteristics . |
| 18 | In his book Mere Christianity , Lewis tells us that there are two mistakes people often make in the way they think about their desire . |
| 19 | While socioeconomic criteria may often exist in the minds of planners , there is an alarming failure to relate social and economic needs to acceptable forms of conservation . |
| 20 | For the current purpose , demonstrating that they were different is sufficient to illustrate two main points : that understanding a place involves uncovering the multivariate and inter-related nature of its culture , for which the three components of the schema in chapter 3 provide a valuable framework ; and that without understanding the nature of a place in all its complexity , it is difficult to appreciate what happens there during particular events — simple , monocausal explanations ( often located in the sphere of production ) are usually insufficient . |
| 21 | A common result is an upward shift of decision making to the new parent company , often located in the south-east . |
| 22 | A hill or valley can often act in the same way as an enormous sail and bend the wind over a large area . |
| 23 | As we saw in Section 5.3 particularly , the establishment of a genuinely across-the-curriculum study skills programme is one possibility , and further infrastructural changes were also often considered in the wake of the project . |
| 24 | These phrases are often embellished in the text with modifiers and slight variations ( often , usually , also , mainly ) which give some extra information to readers of the dictionary . |
| 25 | ‘ Herbage ’ was often included in the warden 's farm ; that is , the dues collected for cattle and horses on the king 's forest pastures . |
| 26 | The Belouch nomads who roam the borderlands of Persia and Afghanistan are often included in the general Turkoman group , although their rugs are sufficiently different in character and appearance to warrant a separate classification . |
| 27 | There are other distinctions and sophistications which are often included in the model . |
| 28 | Interdigitating dendritic cells are therefore believed to function primarily as antigen presenting cells , although they are often included in the generic term ‘ macrophages ’ . |
| 29 | Ancient laws governed who would have rights to watering holes , but the young herders were often caught in the breach , stealing camels and sometimes women , from neighbouring clans . |
| 30 | He often starts in the morning with hydrotherapy which he really enjoys . |