Example sentences of "often of a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within regions there are similar flows between districts , often of a substantial kind . |
| 2 | In these societies marriages involve alliances between groups , often of a political character , and as such they are initiated and organized by the leaders of the groups concerned rather than by the future couple . |
| 3 | NU DI DIMU Dying in a low place , often of a low fever |
| 4 | Clients would arrive with specific problems , often of a financial nature , but what they received was questioning directed at matters that seemed entirely irrelevant to the needs they were presenting . |
| 5 | They were turning towards Marxism , often of a neo-Trotskyist variety , and almost never via the Labour or Communist parties . |
| 6 | Because non-Porsche parts are often of a lower quality than the real thing . |
| 7 | Davy and then Faraday turned out to be brilliant lecturers , holding large audiences for courses on scientific topics , each lecture being illustrated by experiments , often of a spectacular kind : Davy made a model volcano filled with potassium , and poured water into it ; and Faraday flung the fire irons and then the coal-scuttle to a large electromagnet overhead . |
| 8 | In Western society , other important agencies of socialization include the educational system , the occupational group and the ‘ peer group ’ ( a group whose members share similar circumstances and are often of a similar age ) . |
| 9 | For policy-makers , the problems of research and measurement of a large number of important variables , often of a non-quantitative kind , have been severe both in population studies and in soil conservation . |
| 10 | UV-excited photoelectron ( UPS ) spectrometers use electrostatic velocity analyzers , often of a cylindrical design , which are cheap and simple to construct . |
| 11 | Since the evidence for their existence is often of a less-perishable nature , it is easier to identify several in Britain . |
| 12 | The ruff can be almost any shade of cream or red to black , and includes ear-tufts often of a different colour . |
| 13 | Increasingly , historians have come to appreciate his role , and have sought in sources , often of a literary character , to understand how he faced war and reacted to the situations which it created . |
| 14 | This can result in a relatively rapid turnover of cultural fashions , as one project of this kind succeeds another , and this area of relatively rapid innovation — often of a minor kind — has been important in the later twentieth century , as a direct function of the expansion and increased rate of internal circulation of the market itself . |
| 15 | Surface counters are noted as elements whilst judgments , often of a bi-polar nature , are also listed . |
| 16 | ( b ) winter aggregations comprising animals of all age classes ( but with the older ones arriving first and departing last ) are often of a larger size and crowd several layers deep in crevices and pools . |
| 17 | Now , you , you 're , that 's a subjective feeling , you do n't actually know that there are neurones in your blood sugar level , but you , you certainly know when you need something to eat and it , it 's a kind of subjective feeling and it 's not farfetched in the least to claim that our genes have rigged our brain in that way to do that because obviously we 'd like to have more reproductive success if you know when you 're hungry than when you do n't and it may be that a lot of , in a lot of other ways genes affect our , our behaviour through similar erm effects , that is subjective feelings we have , often of an emotional nature to make us want to do certain things and an an and dislike doing others , and it may be that we , we 're really kind of lumbered with that . |
| 18 | Such exchanges take place not because people need to obtain what they do not produce but in order to demonstrate and maintain social links , often of an egalitarian kind . |
| 19 | The second role of the informal interview can be in an enquiry where the researcher is engaged in exploratory work , often of an academic type . |