Example sentences of "the [noun] often [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The writer often called the tune and imposed his ideas on the art director and visualiser , as a junior art director was then called . |
| 2 | Moreover , care orders have been obtained on the education ground without much difficulty , the courts often taking the view that if the child was not receiving a suitable education it was likely that the separate care and control test would almost certainly have been satisfied . |
| 3 | The rules often have no logic . |
| 4 | The building often revealed the man . |
| 5 | And there seems no doubt that this intense life of the mind often reached a point either of aching or of languor . |
| 6 | On 18 December , Stephen H. Greene , assistant administrator of the operations division of the DEA , described at some length how a ‘ controlled delivery ’ worked and agreed that the DEA often used the technique . |
| 7 | In these cases the practitioner often receives a telephone call from the local police asking for information regarding one of his ( or her ) clients , followed by a request to come round and see them . |
| 8 | In late spring , snow surfaces within a few hundred metres of the coast often show a flush of colour , usually pink , green or brownish-yellow , caused by patches of unicellular or colonial algae . |
| 9 | Unlike cases of rape or indecent assault , where the survivor 's account of the episode often provides the point of departure and main focus of attention , the victim of a murder attack is dead . |
| 10 | Their owners were also beginning to notice what was going on and commented on the changes that were making their business more difficult , for the books often had no dispersal markings on them . |
| 11 | But those who do take the risks often reap the rewards . ’ |
| 12 | JPs were for the most part recruited from the greatest landowners in a county , although commissions of the peace often included a few of the humbler type , possibly men with a legal background who were appointed to do the chores . |
| 13 | Because the error often produces a different word altogether the misspeller ought to recognise his mistake : so this again suggests poor visual memory . |
| 14 | The surety often takes the position from motives of friendship to the debtor , and generally not as a result of any direct bargaining between him and the creditor , or in consideration of any remuneration passing to him from the creditor . |
| 15 | The challenge he sets himself grows from the nature of his materials and their relationship to an evolving form , and the outcome often involves a series of variations on known or familiar objects . |
| 16 | The offeror often reserves the right to waive the higher condition , however , and the consequences of accepting some lower percentage are described in para 9.1.2 below . |
| 17 | The stories often have a happy ending where the girl finally realises what a wonderful husband or boy-friend the boy-next-door could be . |
| 18 | Outside his own domain ( the Ile-de-France ) the king often had no more than powers of general protection . |
| 19 | The puppy often gives the older dog a new lease of life . |
| 20 | Earn outs are becoming less and less popular as the disadvantages often outweigh the advantages . |
| 21 | But at the same time this form of contact can seem to other policemen and women as skiving , as even one member of the public described it to the field-worker ( FN 17/12/87 ) , p. 6 ) , although such a caricature obscures the fact that the contact often has a more meaningful purpose . |
| 22 | Even although stations were established every four to nine miles along this immense line of rail , the boomers often chose the wrong spots . |
| 23 | Such mechanisation produces very consistent results throughout the year , but the cheeses often lack the authentic flavour of handmade varieties . |
| 24 | ‘ But these forms of damage are usually seasoned and localised , and are easily prevented by excluding the badgers with an electric fence … however the cost of the control often exceeds the losses incurred . ’ |
| 25 | The value of illuminated manuscripts depends very much on the nature , quality and size of all these pictorial decorations , with the textual content and beauty of the calligraphy often playing a comparatively minor role . |
| 26 | The argument often taking the form of assertion pitted against assertion , women trained for so long to hide their intelligence , to be polite , show an interest in other people , draw them out with questions , now in the relative security burst out with a pent-up aggression , asserting themselves , their opinions . |
| 27 | The newcomers often possess a set of stereotyped expectations of village life which place a heavy emphasis on the quality of the rural environment . |
| 28 | The media often emphasises the conflict and divisions between generations . |
| 29 | On the part-time farm the woman often assumed a crucial role , having to cope on her own for most of the day . |
| 30 | And the corporation often owned the electricity supply as well . |