Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] often [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parenting skills often need to be taught so that parents accurately recognize and understand their child 's behaviour and reactions ( Lieberman and Birch 1985 ) . |
| 2 | Ageist attitudes often contribute to despondency . |
| 3 | but I realised that big weight losses often happen to very overweight people at the beginning of their diets , so I did n't expect to continue at anything like that pace . |
| 4 | College staff often contribute to the management of local enterprise agencies , to small business clubs and sit on the committees of Chambers of Commerce . |
| 5 | To be seen clearly under an optical microscope , cell tissues often have to be stained to increase contrast . |
| 6 | This is a caricature , to be sure , but it illustrates the attitude managers often take to the unexpected : ‘ It should not have happened . ’ |
| 7 | Firstly , the information about price and publication date often proves to be inaccurate when the books appear , because of their inclusion in a catalogue before the final details were known to the publishers themselves . |
| 8 | Counselling responses often have to be rapid , based on personal judgement rather than precise theoretical principles . |
| 9 | Processes along continental-margin subduction zones often lead to the formation of massive granite batholiths which play an important part in orogenesis . |
| 10 | Paradoxically , attending courses at the Civil Service College often led to more dissatisfaction when contrasted with the reality of civil service life . |
| 11 | The motor industry often goes to the expense of building a completely new factory site to ensure that the manufacturing capability does match their requirements exactly . |
| 12 | In areas of the sub-continent where pearl millet — the basis of the unleavened bread — is grown , soil temperatures often soar to 120F or more , killing seedlings and setting in train crop failures and food shortages . |
| 13 | In retrospect the debates on the Bill had a curious air of unreality … government spokesmen often seemed to be stating simple lessons in economic theory … |
| 14 | Panning the camcorder , that is swinging it round through a horizontal arc , is a camera movement often used to excess by amateurs . |
| 15 | A lot of foods we make from wheat flour often tend to be very high in calories , seem to be almost irresistible to hungry slimmers , and are often used as ‘ binge ’ g=foods by compulsive eaters . |
| 16 | According to the count , the bill for the holiday party often came to £500 . |
| 17 | This chameleon quality often leads to misunderstandings between home and school — each blaming the other , when more often than not they are difficult in the one setting but not the other . |
| 18 | Mainstream teachers and heads of language departments often seem to be lacking in knowledge of their pupils ' languages . |
| 19 | Furthermore , the equilibrium allocation often reduces to the so-called Shaw-Mohler form , that selection favours mutants which alter life histories so that the per cent gain in fitness through one sex function exceeds the per cent loss through the other sex function . |