Example sentences of "often [vb pp] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Low stone walls divided the garden up into different segments , and these were marbled with moss and lichen in a dozen shades of gold and green , and often hidden completely under tumbling masses of roses , clematis and ivy . |
| 2 | The need to obtain an entry visa from an embassy often situated far away could be dangerous and could therefore hinder departure . |
| 3 | What is often dismissed rather contemptuously as baggy trousers and tunic by English people exists in fact in a variety of styles . |
| 4 | But even in Britain literary friendships , often formed as early as school or university , can start a periodical , write a manifesto and continue spasmodically through life to inform a style and promote a habit of mind . |
| 5 | The latter finding arose from an observation by Brown and his colleagues ( 1966 ) that patients discharged to live alone or in a hostel often fared rather better than those who went to live with a spouse or parent . |
| 6 | Most terns resemble graceful small gulls , with longer wings , deeply forked tail , and thinner , more pointed bills , often carried almost vertically downwards in their buoyant flight , as they hover and plunge into the water after their small fish prey . |
| 7 | While the New Towns often built up relatively successful and prosperous new communities , they have done little to relieve the problems of the least privileged in the old communities from which they drew , and hence , while by providing for ‘ overspill ’ they have helped to solve some inner-city problems , they have exacerbated others . |
| 8 | Compared with animal tissues , those of land plants are low in fat and protein ( and this is often built quite differently from animal protein ) , while cellulose is almost universal and the phenolic toughening compound , lignin , is found in all woody ones . |
| 9 | Prisoners are often transferred so far away from their homes that the social problems become immense and the difficulties are exacerbated rather than diminished . |
| 10 | Georgina has often said how highly she values your … |
| 11 | Because of this fundamental difference it is difficult to know whether we can rely on information about contemporaries to tell us about prehistoric peoples in the way that is often done still today and was done universally in Marx 's and Engels 's time . |
| 12 | This common type of defensive splitting between married couples is often seen most clearly in retrospect when for some reason the joint defence is breached . |
| 13 | Many married women whose husbands sign on for the family find themselves forced to seek work in the black economy in order to make ends meet ; this is often seen as less risky than the possibility of their husbands being caught . |
| 14 | Some scholars follow him , but the step certainly carried offerings , and the style of the building-sculptures is often felt too early for that date . |
| 15 | In more recent years the resistances have often adopted more explicitly political forms as sex-reform organisations or as sexual liberation movements . |
| 16 | This is often conceded only grudgingly . |
| 17 | Where formed by divergent plate movement they are described as rifted margins , but where the motion between two adjacent continental blocks has been transform they are called sheared margins ( but note that the term rifted margin is often applied rather loosely to passive margins of any type ) . |
| 18 | These had often operated most effectively in smaller areas within which housing or industrial-renewal projects could best be implemented . |
| 19 | Stoner in fact discovered , as I did eventually , that asking the obvious , straightforward things that worried opponents of nuclear power often got much more interesting answers than any attempt to confront the technicalities . |
| 20 | The main thrust of the integration difference is that a hypertext system is often wrapped intimately together with other software to provide a solution to a user 's need . |
| 21 | Within their concept of stress or strain — often used either together or interchangeably by respondents , carers could include anxiety , fear , irritation , tension , despondency , etc . |
| 22 | The Bow 's added attractions are that all the ale taps are Scottish air-pressure tall founts , rather than the hand pumps more often used elsewhere now ; and there is no canned music to hinder conversation . |
| 23 | For example , contour banks in the Mbeya region led to rat infestation ; wide grass strips and contour hedges often used up too much land . |
| 24 | Duodenoscopes are more difficult to clean thoroughly than gastroscopes because of the bridging elevator channel and , as they are often used less frequently , their incomplete disinfection or drying allows a greater time for organisms to proliferate . |
| 25 | This leads the author to conclude that shares not suitable for widows and orphans are often sold more easily to widows and orphans than to anyone else . |
| 26 | These are often sold off cheaply because they are asymmetrical , but this quality is an asset for plants in a Japanese garden . |
| 27 | However , events such as annual fairs were often celebrated long afterwards on Old May Day , Old Michaelmas , etc. , and the financial year still ends on 6 April , eleven days after Lady Day . |
| 28 | Decisions are often reached more quickly when a chairperson is doing their role effectively and pulling strands together than when opinions are being tossed haphazardly around a group . |
| 29 | There seem to be no discoverable rules about the shape of market places , why some take the form of a large open square — often set rather apart from the main flow of traffic — and some a swelling , a sort of aneurism , in the main artery of trade . |
| 30 | Certainly , small disputes are often settled much more quickly , particularly where the parties can agree to written submissions only , thus avoiding a full arbitration hearing . |