Example sentences of "often [verb] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 THE acoustics at the Anglican Cathedral have often given rise to speculation about its suitability for Philharmonic concerts .
2 Travel agents and tour operators often make back to back reservations which means that certain accommodation is booked over a period of time and as one group of guests depart another group takes their place .
3 But that is explained , partly , by the fact that Mike did the negotiations himself and they were often done face to face with Jefferson .
4 She seems to have been too ignorant of , or to have too little regard to , those rules of the drama , and that happy management of plot and catastrophe , which often ensure success to poetry and sentiments much inferior to her own
5 In short , the probability is that women will more often gain access to heroin through a male , frequently via a ‘ romantic relationship ’ , than any other social route .
6 A. V. Dicey , the prominent nineteenth-century jurist and by no means an extreme anti-feminist , considered that while distinctions of rights founded on sex often gave rise to injustice ‘ they have this in their favour — they rest upon a difference not created by social conventions or by human prejudice and selfishness , or by accidental circumstances … which split society into classes , but by the nature of things ’ .
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