Example sentences of "often [vb pp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Transactions are often completed in the middle of the night . |
| 3 | Transactions are often completed in the middle of the night . |
| 4 | I think it is the critical statements , rather than the words of praise , that are more often uttered in the hearing of girls . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Family-trees ( genealogies ) similar to this one are often given in the Bible attesting a line of descent . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The purpose of the organization is often explained in the language of ‘ goals ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A common result is an upward shift of decision making to the new parent company , often located in the south-east . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Herbage ’ was often included in the warden 's farm ; that is , the dues collected for cattle and horses on the king 's forest pastures . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There are other distinctions and sophistications which are often included in the model . |
| 17 | Interdigitating dendritic cells are therefore believed to function primarily as antigen presenting cells , although they are often included in the generic term ‘ macrophages ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | That Commandos and other Special Forces of World War II were superb light infantry , is a fact all too often forgotten in the fashion of the 1970s when every political cut-throat wants to be called a ‘ commando ’ . |
| 20 | The previous chapter argued that the ideological terms of antislavery were developed in part through contesting a pro-West Indian intellectual barrage , often presented in the rhetoric of national and imperial interest . |
| 21 | THE state of Kerala is where history is often made in the Indian subcontinent . |
| 22 | After her poem drew one in reply , Ella Wrote an article in prose in the next issue in which she put a point often made in the later period ( see Chapters 5 and 7 ) by women workers , and one which is central to the debate on women 's pay generally . |
| 23 | Miss T. being an adult , it is doubtful whether we have power to make a restraining order of the kind which is often made in the case of children whose medical treatment is in issue before the courts , but I hope and believe that it is in any event unnecessary . |
| 24 | It is perhaps useful here to bear in mind the distinction often made in the study of pressure groups between ‘ interest ’ groups and ‘ cause ’ groups , though in the tactical struggle for influence each may seek to co-opt the support of the other . |
| 25 | During the 1st and 2nd centuries , knife handles were often made in the form of animals . |
| 26 | For this reason the report is followed by an Appendix , to which references are often made in the text . |
| 27 | Its part is often written in the treble clef on G ( 2nd line ) but it is quite immaterial which clef or note is used , provided that a note different from those used for the side-drum and triangle ( if these appear in the same score ) is chosen . |
| 28 | Contracts are often written in the future tense , presumably on the basis that they refer to acts to be performed in the future . |
| 29 | As it has often done in the modern period , the experience of war had given those who had taken part in it and survived it a new and more confident awareness of their own worth and standing . |
| 30 | These distinctions make it important that we do not confuse , as is often done in the linguistic and philosophical literature , the categories of addressee and hearer . |