Example sentences of "[be] [adj] and often [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prolonged acid contact can cause damage and application should be little and often interspersed by rinsing . |
| 2 | Some of these literary elements are part of the language and have their place in standard dictionaries : others are quasi-proverbial and often used without an awareness of their origin . |
| 3 | The shacks are constructed out of any materials that are to hand , such as planks , cardboard , canvas , thatch , mud , corregated iron and often rubbish , but these are temporary and often improved upon at a later stage . |
| 4 | The tentacle pores of this latter group are open and often armed with small spine-like tentacle scales except in Ophiosparte which has open tentacle pores but a well developed tentacle scale which forms a continuous series with the arm spines . |
| 5 | These changes were complex and often confused . |
| 6 | The reasons for this are manifold and often rooted in the historic past though , as discussed in section 4.4 , colonialism can not be used perpetually to excuse failure . |
| 7 | But , as the arguments of chapter 3 suggest , the passage from government policies for reducing the deficit to concrete cost-cutting measures within the railway enterprises is complex and often beset with contradictions . |
| 8 | In years past this contest was unregulated and often resulted in the destruction of large parts of Altdorf and widespread carnage amongst the civilian population . |