Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , removal of the protective vegetation cover and its replacement with a crop or pasture often results in accelerated soil erosion that exacerbates nutrient deficits . |
| 2 | Thou or You forms are frequently used to address personifications , at which point the Friend or Mistress often slips into the third person , as part of an imagined triangle . |
| 3 | Forestry or fishing often provide small farmers with a second , supplementary occupation without which family incomes would be much lower . |
| 4 | Charms , relic-labels , records of land-grants or dispute-settlements often strike modern palaeographers as unimpressive objects . |
| 5 | But as Laurie Taylor and others have shown ( Taylor , 1976 ) , terms which originally begin life as terms of abuse or disapproval often become used by the victims of the term to mean something quite different . |
| 6 | Comparisons of the size of hands or feet often occur spontaneously , or are prompted by a visit to a shoe shop or making handprints in wet sand , wet footprints by the paddling pool and so on . |
| 7 | As a consequence , fiduciary duties continue to apply to the directors of a company and to 'shadow " directors ( persons whose instructions or directions often determine the decision of the board of directors ) . |
| 8 | Companies who want to open a new store or shop often do a lot of research into socioeconomics . |
| 9 | Parents or relatives often make donations to their old public school or college as some repayment for what it has done for them , or in the hope that it may give their child a better chance of entry ! |
| 10 | Whilst most user groups can be identified with relative ease , the various types of material or service often resist clear definition . |
| 11 | Green Lady is also used to describe a greyish-green GHOST or PHANTOM often found in Scotland . |
| 12 | Nancy then told them , in so low a voice that the listener round the corner could hardly hear her , where Monks often went for a drink , and what he looked like . |
| 13 | In the southern US , where pigs often roam far afield during the day , the farmer brings them home at night by means of a hogcall , which goes roughly , ‘ Suuuuuuuuuuiii , pig pig pig pig pig . ’ |
| 14 | This glaciation has given the Outer Hebrides a complex relief of rock knobs , and small , peat- or water-filled hollows , and intersecting linear grooves or valleys often occupied by lochs and lochans . |
| 15 | Executives who can produce a reliable ‘ diary of events ’ to a court or tribunal often fare better than those who can not . |
| 16 | Tells somebody how to get to particular help screens or people often have difficulty finding things on the help screens , so , some instructions for where to find a particular piece of information on the help screens can be useful . |
| 17 | The fitness benefit of the lionesses ' reaction is plain — males entering a new social group or area often kill the existing offspring , so to further their own reproductive ambitions . |
| 18 | a legendary figure supposed to have reigned as John VIII in the ninth century who gives her name to a card game for 3 or more players , played on a circular painted tray ( or specially marked table ) , and with ‘ fish ’ ( counters of bone or ivory often shaped like fish ) . |
| 19 | Girls with anorexia or bulimia often feel to blame for their original ‘ weight problem ’ , then to blame for becoming too obsessed with it , and then further to blame for being unable to ‘ pull themselves together ’ . |
| 20 | Anyone resident in a house could be held liable for the support of other household members , which meant that a wage-earning son or daughter often moved out of the home in order not to diminish the unemployed parents ' entitlement to benefit . |
| 21 | In the countryside , matters were no better ; the smaller shops in the villages and towns often produced insufficient income to support a family , so that the wife or daughter often looked after it while the man pursued another occupation . |
| 22 | Yet feminists have pointed out the terms ‘ mankind ’ or man often imply only males . |
| 23 | The success of a sports team or personality often relies on the hard work of those unseen figures behind the scenes — the manager and the coach . |
| 24 | Children who have , for example , a Jewish , Hindu , Welsh , or Irish home in an English town or city often have the advantage of sharing two or more cultures that can enrich each other and that can help to spread understanding in the community . |
| 25 | Unlike the natural sciences , where discussion often starts with the results and ignores the methodology of the research , the social sciences — and increasingly anthropology — have developed an elaborate argument about the practices of doing research . |
| 26 | A little humour or chattiness often helps to enliven a rather dull subject , but both humour and a chatty approach are often associated with the fact that there is no real content to the story , so do n't overdo it . |
| 27 | In both a change of ruler or minister often had drastic repercussions , particularly on the conduct of foreign policy . |
| 28 | He noticed that Minton often talked despairingly and on several occasions involved himself and Vaughan in discussions of suicide . |
| 29 | As well as allowing for the " artist 's licence " we need to remember that artists often had to satisfy patrons , or produce work that would sell . |
| 30 | While there is some justification for arguing that industries never mature ( or only over an extremely long time-span ) , there is also every justification for arguing that products often do have life-cycles short enough to make sense of this type of analysis . |