Example sentences of "often [vb -s] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third — note how in places punctuation , or lack of it , often enacts the movement . |
| 2 | The marketing machine constructed around successful fashion labels often turns the designer 's house into a glorified show home crammed with objets d'art , a totem of tastefulness , open to the press at controlled periods to offer fleeting glimpses as corroborative evidence of the host 's status . |
| 3 | Anne Ballard often raids the larder to find food to bake rock hard and add texture to her dried flower arrangements . |
| 4 | ‘ I was able to plug into a growing formula which was already successful and so avoid the ‘ learning curve ’ which so often represents the downfall of any new venture , ’ said Mr Singleton . |
| 5 | However , a sale of business assets often represents the merger of two businesses where it is combined with the transfer of business activities such as goodwill or the benefit of contracts . |
| 6 | Hence he says : ‘ A servant and an army , if disobedient , are useless , but a disobedient horse is not only useless , but often plays the traitor . ’ |
| 7 | Nature often plays the role of ‘ banker ’ , and individuals can therefore benefit from one another 's success . |
| 8 | As Sigmund ( 1980 ) demonstrates for Latin America , when compensation is finally paid , it often overstates the value of the assets . |
| 9 | The procedure for dealing with such requests is set out in R.S.C. , Ord. 70 and often involves the Treasury Solicitor making application to the court under the Act of 1975 : see Ord. 70 , r. 3 . |
| 10 | Because conflict often involves the awareness of being wronged in some way , unresolved past experiences of unfairness , injury or maltreatment can have a powerful effect as we react and respond to more contemporary occurrences . |
| 11 | We all like ‘ to do right ’ by our horses and this often involves the over-feeding of supplements , either because the horse does n't need them in the first place or because we tend to think ‘ a little bit extra will do him even more good ’ . |
| 12 | Thus measurement often involves the exercise of judgement . |
| 13 | This reflects the fact that politics often involves the exchange of symbolic resources rather than substantive ones , since these are important in the mobilization of political action ( see ch. 8 ) . |
| 14 | ABOVE The destruction of large tracts of the landscape for modern road building often involves the destruction of archaeological sites . |
| 15 | Pure cases are rare , not so much because humans are selfish as because action on principle or from duty often involves the weighing of consequences , especially in politics . |
| 16 | It often involves the comparison of observed effects with expectations or intentions . |
| 17 | There now ensues the nagging doubt that so often accompanies the crux of the climb ; it 's all very well getting this far , but until those crucial moves are made it could all still come to nought . |
| 18 | There is no guarantee it will work on any specific case — the first treatment often causes the condition to briefly worsen . |
| 19 | ‘ Luck often spares the man who is n't doomed , as long as his courage holds ’ , agrees Beowulf . |
| 20 | Thus one often encounters the claim that a large number of Quakers ( and other dissenters ) contributed significantly to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physical science and that Jews have been preeminent in mathematics , physics , and psychiatry in the twentieth century . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The media often emphasises the conflict and divisions between generations . |
| 23 | The tone was to become snarling : ‘ Charmley often tortures the evidence and there is much else to criticise in his scholarly but eccentric re-writing of history . |
| 24 | The local county court often has the advantage of being nearer than the High Court District Registry , its rules are less strict and it allows more steps to be taken by post than does the High Court . |
| 25 | Surprisingly , perhaps , I find that walking with no means to draw or paint at all often has the effect of revelation at a particular place and time along the walk . |
| 26 | Pumping much of the enhanced capital expenditure into new prison building often has the effect of draining the prison of vital resources . |
| 27 | This means that , in translation , grammar often has the effect of a straitjacket , forcing the translator along a certain course which may or may not follow that of the source text as closely as the translator would like it to . |
| 28 | But , as here , this mimicry often has the effect of comparing such experts with soothsayers , challenging the contemporary distinction between rational knowledge generated out of numbers and graphs and the irrational predictions of those who ‘ fraudcast ’ on evidence from stars or the entrails of animals . |
| 29 | Firstly , Proust often describes the material world by means of kinetic imagery in the novel . |
| 30 | One might point to Spenser , whose Faerie Queene ( regarded by Tolkien with disapproving interest ) often uses the image of the wandering knight lost in trackless woods , and whose Merlin-vision of Britain reviving underlies Bilbo 's ‘ Riddle of Strider ’ . |