Example sentences of "[noun sg] often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rafiq was studying his magazine with the kind of intense concentration often assumed by those who are listening to other people 's conversations . |
| 2 | But it remains a fact that then , as now , even those highly motivated to peaceful living often find that there is a power working against them from within . |
| 3 | Support for the Association 's work continues to come forward and the Association is increasingly benefiting from working with other organisations on mutually beneficial projects with the Association often achieving both publicity and financial assistance . |
| 4 | Feminist extensions of conventional psychological methodology often resemble more explicitly oppositional programmes for social scientific method . |
| 5 | Highly-viscous lavas are always concerned in Peleean eruptions ; as we saw earlier , a dome or plug of lava often builds up within the crater concerned , blocking the throat of the volcano , so that the pressures building up beneath can only be relieved by vigorous explosions , which may be directed either upwards or sideways , blasting out as nuees ardentes . |
| 6 | Every offering seems to contain at least four separate songs — so there 's rarely any danger of things descending into the kind of tedium often purveyed by dreadlocked squat-dwellers . |
| 7 | On each occasion a common sense category tied to urban renewal often hides a set of social processes which does little for those whose poverty provided the central rationale for urban policy in the first place . |
| 8 | The fault often lies within the body and with there person 's perception of good health . |
| 9 | Early or semi-retired people or housewives looking for a break often welcome a different four walls and a fresh interest . |
| 10 | OK , so he drops the charm at every commercial break often deserting a guest to make straight for the waiting make-up girls . |
| 11 | A whole armoury of biblical interpretation accompanies this mentality — one side often majoring on the sacrifice of Isaac in Genesis 22 and the other side of Thomas 's doubt in John 20 . |
| 12 | By this means the most appropriate course of action often becomes apparent . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , local action often entailed the deposition of the existing authorities and their replacement by local notables . |
| 14 | This action often misuses the body . |
| 15 | Analytical work carried out as part of environmental research often falls into this category . |
| 16 | Historical research often combines elements of both methodologies but it is useful to bear these idealised approaches in mind when considering the ways in which historians might wish archivists to select and preserve different types of electronic records . |
| 17 | In particular the expectations of research often do not match the actual practice of their supervisors . |
| 18 | The momentum often subsides , leading to a tumbling of the share price . |
| 19 | There is one more equation often used in electrostatics that contains charge and not charge density . |
| 20 | For every step forward , the institution often seems to slip back two steps . |
| 21 | When she joined me-after we 'd met while she was still an undercover FedPol investigator — she sternly announced that she was coming into the firm for the sake of the money , and because the job offered interest and challenge without the lethal risks that a FedPol agent often had to run . |
| 22 | However an agent often holds no money or property for his principal unlike a trustee ; if he does receive money from or for his principal he is merely in a position of debtor to his principal in respect of it and if he receives goods he may hold them as bailee only ( see Lister v Stubbs [ 1890 ] 45 Ch 1 ) . |
| 23 | Temporary workers and overtime working could be substitutes or complements ( albeit that overtime often permits a more immediate response and entails no recruitment training costs ) , and our case studies explore this issue in more detail . |
| 24 | Calves may show clinical signs during the prepatent period and occasionally a massive infection can cause severe dyspnoea of sudden onset often followed by death in 24-48 hours . |
| 25 | This kind of statement , issued by a large and highly successful international publishing company could help to mitigate the sense of isolation often felt by those teachers attempting to tackle these issues , often in less than supportive circumstances . |
| 26 | On the one hand , the sterility of machine culture and the terrible isolation often felt by people even in overcrowded cities ; on the other hand , a taking for granted of many basic rights and freedoms which in your day have not even been thought |
| 27 | A number of reviews of Karajan 's early recordings with the Philharmonia Orchestra were written by the precociously gifted Andrew Porter , a critic often quoted by the anti-Karajan lobby or adulatory biographers looking to add some grist to the mill . |
| 28 | This is an important question because such a belief conflicts with the plausible assumption that intense emotion often endures beyond the situation that provoked it , and colours one 's reactions to later events . |
| 29 | Strong repression of one emotion often succeeds inadvertently in suppressing the desire as well . |
| 30 | What is extraordinary is that it is taking off in England — the land of the Stiff Upper Lip , where the primary emotion often seems to be fear of embarrassment . |