Example sentences of "[noun sg] they often [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I meet a prospective new employee they often seem more concerned with their job title than they do with their salary . |
| 2 | During a mild winter they often start flowering in early March , and M. grandiflora still has the occasional few flowers in December . |
| 3 | When people talk together about marriage they often assume they are discussing the same thing . |
| 4 | Once children have seen it at work they often suggest ways of adapting it . |
| 5 | ‘ You tell him , ’ is the refrain they often take to the local schools , in admission that authority and control has been exhausted at home . |
| 6 | Between these a great deal happened to influence policies and to give them a character they often retain . |
| 7 | To offset the emotional effects of their unnatural life-style they often require tranquillizers , and to ensure commercially satisfactory levels of meat production they are injected with anabolic — that is , body-building — steroid hormones . |
| 8 | The thing is at that age they often do n't get severe punishment cos they 'll got to either a special place |
| 9 | As in this case they often travel outside their own force area . |
| 10 | To this end they often have long , spindly legs , and they typically run on the tips of their toes , which have become specially elongated and strengthened in evolution . |
| 11 | Competitions for practical designs usually imply that prizewinning entries will find their way into the market , but in reality they often fail to find a manufacturer . |
| 12 | A highly-developed sense of the ridiculous is inimical to the striking of certain musical attitudes ; and , while I 'm sure mason regards the craft of composition itself with profound seriousness , there are clearly many compositional modes and self images which he 's quite unable to invest with the spurious dignity they often demand . |
| 13 | In a new pool they often die because the water has not matured and there is insufficient debris on the pool floor in which they can make their home . |
| 14 | A deciduous or sombre evergreen hedge in a prominent position may look bleak in winter , although in summer they often enhance the brilliance of adjacent flowers . |
| 15 | With good medical care they often get better for a while . |
| 16 | Drawing feathers becomes easier when you perceive the way they often form into well defined masses . |
| 17 | Because of their position they often interfere with the bit and are sometimes even broken by the bit . |
| 18 | Moreover , when words are spoken in continuous speech they often sound different from when spoken in isolation . |
| 19 | Other shortcomings of the public inquiry system include a presumption , by lawyers , of knowledge in highly specialist areas when in fact they often miss the very point which their technical advisers are putting to them . |
| 20 | Some clients do not attend counselling because they feel it interferes with their personal privacy — that ‘ do-gooders ’ will tell them what to do , which is made even more insulting by the fact they often have children themselves . |
| 21 | Learning ‘ on the job ’ is the way that most people acquire their skills with desktop publishing but even though they are producing relevant material they often miss out on a lot of the essential background . |
| 22 | When they are in moult they often sit ashore on the rocks , when their dark brown plumage blends in with the dark rocks . |