Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] often " in BNC.
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| 1 | These new compounds were often specific for a particular kind of leukaemia , and sometimes they were so effective that remissions appeared to be permanent . |
| 2 | Often Parliamentary lists record only one side of the division , some of them contain errors , and because division lists were often published for propaganda purposes , sometimes errors were deliberately introduced in order to mislead the people about how a particular member had voted . |
| 3 | CHILDREN in some special schools were often rewarded for good behaviour with cigarettes , according to a report yesterday . |
| 4 | A further and central feature of this system of trade was that while those countries exporting manufactures were usually involved in many diverse lines of business , the raw-material exporters were often engaged in the production of one or two major staples . |
| 5 | Senior engineers and managers in the industry were often contemptuous of the amateurishness and lack of detailed knowledge of the civil service . |
| 6 | Later readers were often puzzled by the references to ‘ stations ’ at a time long before the first arrival of the railway in Cumbria . |
| 7 | The first generally available databases were often produced as a stage in the computer-based printing of abstract and index publications and contained , therefore , bibliographic references . |
| 8 | Visions of the future were often black and in 1949 Orwell published 1984 . |
| 9 | In these cases the clients were often in hospital at referral and were either physically or mentally too frail or ill to be discharged . |
| 10 | The plants reproduced by means of spores , which were born in cones ; the spores were often of two kinds — large ( female ) megaspores up to 2 mm in diameter and much smaller ( male ) microspores . |
| 11 | The more powerful , well-established organizations were often able to put forward their own projects — many of which might simply have been cancelled because of capital cut-backs after the International Monetary Fund imposed constraints in 1976 . |
| 12 | there is an element of class consciousness in the fact that when the leaders of these er organizations were often put in prison , sort of five or ten thousand people sometimes used to go and , and destroy the prisons like to get them out , so surely that 's so that 's |
| 13 | Many lords profited from the tolls charged on travellers and merchandise , and their castles were often sited at points where roads or rivers met , and where merchants and pilgrims congregated . |
| 14 | Thus headteachers were often concerned about authorised absence as about unauthorised absence . |
| 15 | It has been argued by Dr Snell that the fact that overseers were often of humble stock themselves was crucial for the social order of rural communities in that it " facilitated agreement and mutual respect between the ranks and orders of parish society " . |
| 16 | Some sections of the working class , especially where child labour was a necessity , might still prefer evidence of a woman 's fertility , but even when such utilitarian motives were absent , informal ties were often preferred . |
| 17 | By their third single , he believed he held an important position in the group because Solowka and Gregory were often absent from concerts . |
| 18 | Hopper heads were often ornate affairs , with perhaps a crest or other decoration on them — this type may still be found second-hand . |
| 19 | The funds were often borrowed by speculators who then reinvested them in strong currencies in the expectation of revaluations , a hideous spiral by which central banks were providing funds to speculators who stood to make a profit from them if the currency was revalued . |
| 20 | These low potencies were often given over long periods , and frequently mixtures of different remedies were used . |
| 21 | In May 1990 the UNDP published its first Human Development Report , which proposed that the traditional macroeconomic yardsticks , favoured by the World Bank and other international financial institutions , should be replaced by a new indicator , the " Human Development Index " ( HDI ) , which would take into account life expectancy , degree of literacy and individual purchasing power , since traditional indicators were often distorted by exchange rate fluctuations . |
| 22 | The observation schedule shown on pages 100 to 101 was used by students during a day 's observation of people in a bookshop and helped us to realize that the women shoppers were often much more purposive than the men in their bookshop behaviour . |
| 23 | Rescripts were often penned for a case , and not for the world at large . |
| 24 | Not that this made the county unique , for Tudor and Stuart England was essentially a federation of strongly developed provincial societies in which county patterns of life and social and political allegiances were often far stronger than the tenuous links with a central monarchy in Westminster . |
| 25 | In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries covers were often boards in the true Anglo-Saxon sense , being of oak or beech covered with leather . |
| 26 | Until the property-price boom , halls were often more expensive than private housing . |
| 27 | Letters of recommendation were often requested by those about to sail for India or another overseas possession , and such letters were even sought by those already serving in India when they appreciated that the interest of a man of influence would accelerate their own advancement . |
| 28 | In Germany , goblins were often called Hodeken ( ‘ little hat ’ ) due to their habit of pulling on their felt hats so snugly . |
| 29 | Koreans serving in the police force were often extremely brutal in their conduct and it is hardly surprising that they were a target for revenge after the termination of Japanese rule ; many of them served under the American occupation and in South Korea from 1948 and vengeance continued to be taken at periodic intervals for years to come . |
| 30 | His early attempts at evening wear were often disastrous , inspiring groans at the Oscars when Michelle and Julia showed off their sludgy simplicity to an overdressed audience hungry for sparkles and sequins . |