Example sentences of "[noun] often [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , environmental considerations often play a subservient role to economic and political expediency and the concept of long-term sustainability is rarely attributed more than cosmetic attention . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Doeringer distinguishes between three major divisions : a pragmatic approach in which theory plays little or no role although , as Eldridge ( 1975 , p. 7 ) has reminded us ‘ the pragmatists in emphasising the need for realistic solutions often carry a good deal of conceptual and theoretical baggage around with them ’ ; secondly , a Marxist approach , stressing class relations and conflict irreconcilability ; and , following Dunlop 's ( 1958 ) seminal work , the highly influential ‘ systems ’ model focusing on the rules of industrial relations and their determinants . |
| 4 | Early or semi-retired people or housewives looking for a break often welcome a different four walls and a fresh interest . |
| 5 | OK , so he drops the charm at every commercial break often deserting a guest to make straight for the waiting make-up girls . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , local action often entailed the deposition of the existing authorities and their replacement by local notables . |
| 7 | This action often misuses the body . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The marketing machine constructed around successful fashion labels often turns the designer 's house into a glorified show home crammed with objets d'art , a totem of tastefulness , open to the press at controlled periods to offer fleeting glimpses as corroborative evidence of the host 's status . |
| 11 | The crux of the matter is that while one can accept the proposition that judicial labels often express a conclusion already reached , rather than dictate the result which should be arrived at , to infer that therefore the type of labels that we use are irrelevant is a non sequitur . |
| 12 | Anne Ballard often raids the larder to find food to bake rock hard and add texture to her dried flower arrangements . |
| 13 | Second , these lists often provide the names of the performers , but only vague indications as to what instruments they are playing . |
| 14 | In compensation , these clear lakes often have a rich benthic flora of perennial mosses ( Calliergon , Drepanocladus spp. ) and algae ( for example Tolypothrix , Plectonema and Phormidium ) , both liberally covered with epiphytic blue-green and green algae . |
| 15 | Unlike cases of rape or indecent assault , where the survivor 's account of the episode often provides the point of departure and main focus of attention , the victim of a murder attack is dead . |
| 16 | Although it was not the case when Paul was stabbed , those carrying knives often have the blade turned back on them , and Mr Wood is anxious that no more young people end up injured or worse . |
| 17 | Experience has shown that the local appropriation of this programme often requires a long process of gestation and steady , patient work . |
| 18 | Males are generally the more mobile sex socially ; females commonly remain part of the same social unit throughout their lives and their relationships often provide a basic stability to it . |
| 19 | Unlike Stalin and Khruschev , Elena did not use her dilettante approach to science to promote a bogus figure like the Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko — though it must be admitted that Nicolae Ceauşescu 's interventions in agricultural practice often recalled the half-baked interference of Lysenko 's patron , Khruschev . |
| 20 | In view of all this it is perhaps not surprising that current practice often includes a system of settlement , under which the member is asked to admit some or all of the charges without a formal hearing . |
| 21 | In late spring , snow surfaces within a few hundred metres of the coast often show a flush of colour , usually pink , green or brownish-yellow , caused by patches of unicellular or colonial algae . |
| 22 | Tsars often ascended the throne in difficult circumstances , but the situation in which Alexander found himself was undoubtedly worse than that which confronted his father in 1825 or his uncle in 1801 . |
| 23 | In these cases the practitioner often receives a telephone call from the local police asking for information regarding one of his ( or her ) clients , followed by a request to come round and see them . |
| 24 | Their owners were also beginning to notice what was going on and commented on the changes that were making their business more difficult , for the books often had no dispersal markings on them . |
| 25 | American books often used the whole alphabet , but were not consistent , some printers being faithful to their origins , some insisting on independence . |
| 26 | But pale eyes often held a far-away look which he tended to associate with insanity . |
| 27 | For example , candidates often write the number identifying the question in small figures close to the inner corner of the page , where it is often concealed by the way the examination book is bound . |
| 28 | A major development in rural industry often took the form of town based capitalists organising the labours of village artificers . |
| 29 | Polyatomic cations often have the suffix -ium ( see table 4.10 ) . |
| 30 | They are the glamour girls of the catwalk , whose looks , legs and lifestyles often overshadow the designers whose clothes they wear . |