Example sentences of "often [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than starting with the current difficulties , it is often possible to begin with the history of the family , perhaps concentrating on more positive , happier times . |
| 2 | Experience with previous legislation framed in similar terms showed that the courts in practice were often prepared to dispense with the evidence of a ‘ victim , ’ and accepted instead the word of a complainant ( usually a policeman ) that the victim appeared to have been harassed or annoyed . |
| 3 | Thirdly , it is often impossible to tell from the inventory whether a person was poor or whether he was living in comfortable retirement , having already passed on most of his estate to his children ; a yeoman with very few possessions is likely to have been in the latter category . |
| 4 | It should be noted , however , that the provisions of Sch 9 are often impossible to satisfy in the case of the ordinary share capital of a buy-out company such as Newco , because of the way in which the Inland Revenue interprets para 12(1) ( c ) of Sch 9 . |
| 5 | One of the nicest things about walking around coastline peninsulas is that it is often easy to stick to the coastline without doubling back on yourself at the end . |
| 6 | The five-fold symmetry is often hard to detect in the calyx as a whole , although five food grooves are usually developed . |
| 7 | It is often hard to talk about the details of what we do in bed . |
| 8 | He painted Jeanne many times , but was often glad to escape from the apartment and from Madame Hébuterne 's endless criticism of him . |
| 9 | It is also often useful to include in the side letter , by way of illustration only , a worked example of a pro forma completion statement to which both sets of accountants agree and to which they can refer back when the actual accounts are to be prepared . |
| 10 | By telling his or her own story of drinking and its consequences , the recovering alcoholic is often able to get through the Protective denial system of the sufferer so that the sufferer himself or herself , through personal identification with many elements of that story and with the associated feelings , is gradually able to make his or her own diagnosis . |
| 11 | He exists in a series of time-capsules , deeply aware of personal responsibilities , of demands made on his time , of kindnesses he wishes to offer , but nonetheless often unable to escape from the maelstrom he has created around himself . |
| 12 | Conclusions are often discordant , however , and the predictive value of the results is often difficult to assess from the data . |
| 13 | As the above story shows it is often difficult to think of the obvious . |
| 14 | An interesting example is the work of the deconstructionist critic Paul de Man , whose analytical prose is deeply dialogic , in the sense that it is a composite of different voices , cited , reported , paraphrased , conjectured , which are often difficult to distinguish from the critic 's own commentary and judgement . |
| 15 | It is often difficult to show on the model precisely how the components interact ( eg by a transfer of information or resources ) , particularly when drawing high-level models where such interactions may be extremely complex . |
| 16 | Other places were also hit savagely from time to time , but it is often difficult to tell from the registers which particular disease was responsible for an unusually high number of deaths . |
| 17 | On the other hand , measurements are often difficult to interpret without the assistance of flow visualization . |
| 18 | These , however , are often difficult to find in the form required , because of inconsistencies in definitions or reporting standards . |
| 19 | It is often necessary to look at the water 's surface and try to visualise exactly what is happening beneath it — to imagine the fish in their own world and how best it might be to get a bait to them . |