Example sentences of "often [vb -s] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broadcasters do try to offer advice , but it often goes right over the heads of enquirers . |
| 2 | The meaning of a sentence in English , and in languages with similarly fixed word order such as Chinese , often depends entirely on the order in which the elements are placed ( cf. The man ate the fish and The fish ate the man ) . |
| 3 | What evidence there is often exists only in the anecdotal form of teacher accounts or in multicultural handbooks ( Burgess , 1986 ; Nixon , 1985 ) . |
| 4 | The larger part at the front often opens directly onto the street , but may have been protected by some form of veranda . |
| 5 | In his balletts he often breaks away from the Mantuan composer 's genuinely dancelike and predominantly note-against-note style , keeping only the ‘ fa-la ’ refrain which is the hallmark of the balletto — but extending even that with great contrapuntal and rhythmic ingenuity . |
| 6 | He often draws far into the night , he tells Theo . |
| 7 | In turn , discussion on this topic often focuses less upon the effect of property relations today than on the links established between property as an institution and Locke 's concepts of individuality and natural rights , and , in turn , Marx 's critique of private property . |