Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [be] often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although that curriculum is often represented as diminishing teachers ' choices and initiatives , it is important for heads and their colleagues to note how matters of culture which have many facets can be handled alongside a national concern that schools should be more readily comparable with each other and should be readily accountable , not least in their pupils ' attainment levels . |
| 2 | It is a fact of our lives that change is constant and that change is often feared . |
| 3 | The , the importance of this , is that Freud is often said to have been a Hobbesian thinker , in the sense that , er without necessarily being directly influenced by Hobbes , he took a similar , a similar kind of view , or at least , so it is said . |
| 4 | These diaries do not always follow conventional order , in that chronology is often ignored ; but then she elaborates later on questions of importance . |
| 5 | This change is often described as being from a general tendency to blame the fecklessness and idleness of the poor for their poverty , to recognition that the fault lay in the structure of the economy ; from a ‘ moral ’ to an ‘ economic ’ diagnosis . |
| 6 | These were both embassies with a large symbolic and ceremonial element : envoys of this kind were often given presents whose significance was also purely symbolic and which bore no relationship to the length of their stay or to the importance of the issues with which they were concerned . |
| 7 | Answers of this kind were often accompanied by alternative suggestions such as 5 , 7 or 14 days . |
| 8 | This responsibility is often taken on by the detergent suppliers who takes care of the chemicals , dosing equipment and the minor repairs and adjustments on the machine . |
| 9 | However , this opportunity is often missed . |
| 10 | This narrative is often linked to another in which the victims of racism trace their own onward march , as an epic journey of emancipation from bondage , in which they alone carry the banner of human progress . |
| 11 | This route is often used by visitors to the caravan site at Six Arches . |
| 12 | This course is often taken in addition to the morning session of Executive Course II . |
| 13 | Aggregate data do not , of course , allow us to draw any inferences about the behaviour of individual authorities which give rise to these findings , particularly where so few cases are often involved . |
| 14 | Whilst exercise is regularly advocated as essential to a healthy heart this recommendation is often misunderstood . |
| 15 | Some words are often used between commas like he comma , too comma , was embarrassed and this one in particularly , please , tomorrow comma , however comma , snows is expected , and do n't try to use however as a conjunction , 'cos it is n't . |
| 16 | I spent my working life in an international chemical company and this confusion was often commented upon by my French , German , Dutch and Italian colleagues . |
| 17 | This aptitude is often referred to as ‘ seeing the big picture ’ , ‘ seeing the forest not the trees ’ , or the ‘ helicopter ability ’ . |
| 18 | Cessation of alcohol abuse with which this condition is often associated may dramatically reduce the lipaemia , but other methods can be employed . |
| 19 | However guarded such advice might be , this reasoning is often expanded by lay people and used to justify increasingly heavy and more regular drinking . |
| 20 | This remedy is often selected on its emotional picture : |
| 21 | This therapy is often used in conjunction with others . |
| 22 | Although this summary was only offered in the context of the C. and A.G. , it is a good general summary of the audit of government and local government in the UK as well as the USA.2 In the USA , this audit is often called the ‘ expanded scope audit ’ , to emphasize the nature of the difference between it and the statutory commercial audit ; in Canada , the term is ‘ comprehensive auditing ’ . |
| 23 | This question is often given to people applying for a job in management or administration . |
| 24 | A final twist is given to this situation ; the fact that women do all of this work is often given as an explanation of their inferiority . |
| 25 | This work is often done by an old man of many years experience . |
| 26 | In all of them commercial and economic affairs continued to have an aura of inferiority , of boring drudgery ; and this attitude was often reflected in the organisation of foreign offices . |
| 27 | Memos of this type are often displayed on notice boards for general information . |
| 28 | Unfortunately people who could benefit from some counselling are often prevented from doing so by their own injunctions . |
| 29 | ( This fish is often offered as ‘ hengeli ’ which is a smaller species from Sumatra ) . |
| 30 | Many plants need a period of dormancy before they leaf and flower and the timing of this period is often influenced by the temperature . |