Example sentences of "often [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preventative sprays of systemic insecticides , and winter washes to kill aphid eggs , are often preferable to spraying establishing colonies which might contain predators . |
| 2 | This principle is valid at all levels of analysis ; but the implication for phonological work is that phonemic transcriptions are often unsuitable for pilot studies . |
| 3 | Town water , although potable , is often unsuitable for textile processes such as package-dyeing because it contains suspended matter and soluble calcium and magnesium salts ; filtration and softening may be necessary before it can be employed with confidence in a process in which impurities can filter out upon yarn or fabric . |
| 4 | If the fields below happen to be large , they may get down safely , but a safe landing is often due to luck rather than to good judgement . |
| 5 | Reluctance to administer appropriate analgesics is often due to fear of their potentially harmful side-effects , particularly those associated with opioid analgesics . |
| 6 | Then there are the man-made drought problems — banks which slope towards the sough , sunny walls , terraces or patios — all are often inhospitable to plant life because they have been designed as suntraps . |
| 7 | Pollen successions from lake-beds and cave-floor bone deposits , often dateable by radiocarbon methods mark the ebb and flow of periglacial biotas ; for a review of the European flora and fauna during this period see Kurtén ( 1968 ) . |
| 8 | When I was younger I was often upset by criticism and innuendo but I learnt that if you become involved with this kind of thing it will end up by gnawing you away . |
| 9 | It is argued in this book that in many areas of the world where environmental fragility is an outstanding characteristic , there is a failure to adapt to a variety of new and related pressures , particularly population pressure and increased state intervention which is often extractive in nature , and also that such technically state-sponsored innovations that there are , tend to be inappropriate or inaccessible . |
| 10 | She would walk the ten-mile round trip over the Downs to Charleston without demur , striding out in an afternoon , often rapt in thought , puzzling over the next scene in the novel she had been writing all morning . |
| 11 | The image of the drunken and ill-disciplined soldier , a figure who aroused an emotional response , more often that of fear than that of respect , was nothing new in this age . |
| 12 | The condition behind the deviation is often rectifiable by counselling or psychotherapy . |
| 13 | The aggressive fighter is often weak on defence and generally prefers just to smother your attack so that he can proceed with his own . |
| 14 | Women , especially mothers , are often guilty of birth gossip , and unwittingly create fear in the minds of first-time mothers . |
| 15 | The analyses carried out are often arcane in detail to all but a small group of ‘ high priests ’ ; |
| 16 | Unfortunately , the aggregations are generally chosen for non-statistical reasons and so differ from data set to data set and are often unstable over time . |
| 17 | The Tory vote in the areas where it polled well were elderly , well-off , and often English in origin . |
| 18 | The mid-nineteenth century saw a major increase in the market and supply of pornography : its concerns ( flagellatory , the cross-class seduction of servants and young girls , and so on ) were often different in substance from our own ( there was little homosexuality for instance ) , but they illustrate a growing demand for fantasy fulfilment in the very heart of ‘ respectability ’ . |
| 19 | It is things like that which are really destructive to writers , who are often brave about illness and pain , and resilient after all but the deepest grief . |
| 20 | Prominent individuals were often prominent by virtue of the groups of which they were leaders . |
| 21 | Larvae of fish and bottom-living invertebrates , which are often prominent in zooplankton of temperate seas , are notably absent from polar surface waters . |
| 22 | In both 1925 and 1990 proponents of fixed exchange rates resorted to statements , often unsupported by argument , about their perceived benefits over a properly constituted financial policy for controlling inflation . |
| 23 | Early insecticides were crude , wide-spectrum contact killers , whereas modern ones are more often systemic in operation , that is , they make the crop temporarily poisonous to the pest and are increasingly specific . |
| 24 | At present there is little evidence for a periparturient rise in faecal egg output in breeding mares due to a relaxation of immunity since the egg rise in the spring occurs in both breeding and non-breeding animals and is often unrelated to parturition . |
| 25 | " Fooling around " in drama is often symptomatic of misunderstanding and embarrassment . |
| 26 | Sculptors of korai seem often content with virtuosity and prettiness which can become trivial ( cf. fig. 33 ) ; or if , like Antenor in fig. 3 5 , they try to monumentalise the form , the effect is uneasy . |
| 27 | All around us were mountains ; they were often half-smothered in cloud , but in the evenings this lifted and then the crests loomed over us , rain-washed , clear-cut and splendid . |
| 28 | At the time his brother was injured and disappeared , the five-year-old Derek was still of an age when thinking is often magical in quality and wrong connections can be made . |
| 29 | Young fish are often dark in colour , and will acquire their bright colours after 6–8 weeks or even longer . |
| 30 | Lesions that do not blanch on pressure ( which are often dark in colour and raised ) tend to respond poorly to pulsed dye lasers : better and more rapid responses can often be achieved with alternative lasers such as the frequency doubled neodymium yttrium aluminium garnet laser in conjunction with an automated delivery system . |