Example sentences of "often [vb base] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flowers East really took off and today people often combine a visit to us with a trip to the Whitechapel and lunch at the famous Jewish restaurant , Blooms . |
| 2 | Elite performers often launch an attack as soon as the switch-change occurs , suddenly darting forwards with a powerful attack before the opponent has time to re-calculate your distance from him . |
| 3 | Art histories often make an attempt to keep to chronology , although the difficulties include the crucial fact that in art there is no clear sequence of events . |
| 4 | The situation is not that we always have confirmed hypotheses , and sometimes or often lack an enumeration of the elements of a causal circumstance . |
| 5 | Al also the way we talk about it is very very sloppy , we often say A minus B when we should be saying plus A take away plus B. We start talking like that people he 's off again . |
| 6 | Because mulberry trees are usually found in the centre of a lawn , not hidden away in the kitchen garden or grown in an orchard , they often provide a focus for children 's play . |
| 7 | They often provide a drop-in centre and sometimes they provide group counselling as well as a link to appropriate specialist health services . |
| 8 | My oil paintings often involve a lot of fine lines and small details , but when using fine brushes I find it very difficult to get the oil paint to flow from the brush very smoothly . |
| 9 | My oil paintings often involve a lot of fine lines and small details , but when using fine brushes I find it very difficult to get the oil paint to flow from the brush very smoothly . |
| 10 | Similar principles apply in the case of bonuses , which often involve an element of profit sharing . |
| 11 | These devices often put a creditor in a position superior to that of other unsecured creditors in the event of a company 's insolvent liquidation . |
| 12 | ‘ Men often put a lot of energy into the courtship period ’ , warns Jane Hawksley , ‘ never use that as a gauge for the future . |
| 13 | These often show a winter profile combed down into a series of bars and troughs caused by the destructive waves of winter storms and a steeper summer profile with a large inshore berm built up by swell waves of constructive type . |
| 14 | Both Egyptian and Assyrian painting and relief often show a kind of bird's-eye view against which figures are set in profile at different levels . |
| 15 | In late spring , snow surfaces within a few hundred metres of the coast often show a flush of colour , usually pink , green or brownish-yellow , caused by patches of unicellular or colonial algae . |
| 16 | These often show a dissociation between the stem of a lexical item and its affix . |
| 17 | Senior state officials , and to some extent political leaders , very often receive an education in political history , constitutional law , and administrative practice ; political scientists and sociologists ( though less frequently than economists ) become advisers to government departments and agencies ; sociological research is carried out to assist in making policy decisions . |
| 18 | One of the problems with polio is that the spasms of pain often cause a patient to twist his limb involuntarily into a crippled position and it becomes locked there . |
| 19 | ‘ Many companies , however successful , tend to be somewhat inbred and for this reason people often welcome an injection of new thinking into their affairs . ’ |
| 20 | RIGHT Dogs often enjoy a run along the beach but watch out for any traces of tar which could adhere to their feet or coat . |
| 21 | I often wear a towelling dressing gown when I 'm invited out to dinner , ’ said Alex . |
| 22 | It is true that individual plantations lose these species rapidly once the thicket stage is reached , but other species move in and large areas of plantation often exhibit a variety of growth stages from clear fell to mature trees , which further increases the diversity of birds present . |
| 23 | Managers often view a job at Shell , where they are given plenty of decisions to make early on in their career , as an alternative to taking an MBA . |
| 24 | Laboratory analyses often confirm a field man 's suspicions or draw his attention to pollution previously unnoticed . |
| 25 | To speak more intelligibly , I never have made any arrangement of plot when I commenced a work of fiction , and often finish a chapter without having the slightest idea of what materials the ensuing one is to be constructed . |
| 26 | In addition , young Christians often face a crisis in their faith , because employers tend to discriminate against the country 's Christian minority . |
| 27 | and file extensions often give a clue as to the contents . |
| 28 | The best of these often give a sense of both the science and the doing of science . |
| 29 | They often give a girl a car or money towards travelling expenses and can help to relieve some of the pressure which builds up when every shot you hit or every putt you miss can cost you money . ’ |
| 30 | Lecturers often give an overview at the start of a lecture and a summary at the end . |