Example sentences of "[noun pl] which often " in BNC.
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| 1 | Group membership could promote ties which often transcended other loyalties . |
| 2 | In times of special crisis at home and abroad such as severe unemployment in East London , or famine in India , the Lord Mayor of London , and mayors of other towns , opened relief funds which often attracted large subscriptions . |
| 3 | to draw a map of the conceptual structure of the area in question by assuming that key words which often occur together represent closely related concepts . |
| 4 | There is still a superficial resemblance to the old style , especially on larger vases which often have a figure-frieze on neck and body , the rest being covered with graded bands of abstract ornament ; but this has shrunk to little more than varied groupings of zigzags , while massed zigzags among the figures of the main friezes make a shimmering ground on which the fuller , curvier silhouettes or dot-filled outlines of men , women , animals , monsters , flowers stand out . |
| 5 | When cells are stimulated they invariably display regular calcium spikes which often appear as waves . |
| 6 | But having 22,000 students milling around my city , I am delighted about the Government 's attitude to student discounts and particularly to the student gap , as it is called — the three months which often used to cause problems under the old community charge arrangements . |
| 7 | Lloyds may be the only bank turning up its nose at the dollar bill , but the others are n't wild about some large-denomination European notes which often have to be shipped back to their country of origin rather than recycled through the system . |
| 8 | It contrasts markedly with similar past projects which often suffered from appalling industrial relations and were sometimes years late . |
| 9 | In emphasising how theoretical study can be applied , in practice we are equally conscious of how the application of ideas in a wide range of specific context can contribute to the ‘ academic ’ pursuit of identifying general theories and models , traditionally taught and still to be taught through disciplines which often impose rather arbitrary boundaries of content . |
| 10 | Parents sampled the linguistic , mathematical , scientific and creative work which the children had done on the theme — and many discovered that activities which often look to be just fun can in fact be quite hard work . |
| 11 | The counsellor has to be able to extract from the words being used the feelings and meanings which often lie just beneath the surface . |
| 12 | These shepherds live wild , most of them on the same mountain just outside Florence , in abandoned houses which often have no light or running water . |
| 13 | A subfamily of the Ophiacanthidae with a sack-like disk covered with thickened skin or thin scales which often carry spinelets or granules ; radial shields variable in shape , either rib-like with only the distal ends not covered by scales or short with most of the plate visible ; the jaws distinctly longer than broad ; one or sometimes as many as three large blunt apical papillae flanked on each side by three to many oral papillae ; in most genera the second oral tentacle pore arising superficially or nearly so and the associated tentacle scales often forming a continuous series with the oral papillae ; the oral tentacle scales often spine-like and larger than the oral papillae , except in Ophiolimna where the second oral tentacle pore is obscured by a large opercular distal oral papillae ; nearly all genera with well developed elongated adoral shields and a large oral shield ; the tentacle pores of the arm mostly large and often with small spine-like tentacle scales although some genera with smaller pores armed with well developed tentacle scales ; the arm spines relatively short usually only slightly longer than one arm segment . |
| 14 | City land available for house-building was further reduced by the building of railways and roads which often swallowed up not only building land but also existing working-class housing . |
| 15 | It is important to avoid cheap products which often are formulated for freshwater aquarium use and contain lots of carbohydrate , fats , fibre and little else . |
| 16 | Such changes would also encourage a more positive and better negotiated start for many step-families which often fail as a result of unresolved divorce issues . |
| 17 | On the other hand , a price lower than this would hasten the decay of the falling firms , and slacken the growth of the rising firms ; and on the whole diminish production : and a rise or fall of price would affect in like manner though perhaps not in an equal degree those great joint-stock companies which often stagnate , but seldom die . |
| 18 | Being a teacher today constitutes for many just such an intense set of pressures , stresses , conflicts and uncertainties which often leads people to behave in ways which they do not like , but seem powerless to control . |
| 19 | In these circumstances which often arose on such operations , our Chief Engineer was wont to complain bitterly that his injectors or blowers , or what have you , would soon be fouled up . |
| 20 | The nosodes are invaluable for clearing up inherited predispositions and acquired disease toxins which often can not be treated in any other way . |
| 21 | There was also the occasional case of petty theft , street fighting or traffic offences which often ended up with a plea of Guilty and a fine of a few dollars or a short period in goal . |
| 22 | Doctors ' surgeries are filled with sufferers from countless illnesses which often fall into the category of ‘ stress-related ’ : high blood pressure , anxiety , ulcers , depression , tension , exhaustion , insomnia , phobias , skin conditions such as eczema ; and PMT can also worsen when we 're under intense pressure . |
| 23 | Henceforth each successive royal election provoked party conflicts and personal intrigues which often led to civil war , as well as pressure and even forcible intervention from abroad on behalf of competing candidates . |
| 24 | On the one hand , ideas have been simplified into reduced versions which often bear little resemblance to their originals in the disciplinary contexts from which they have been taken . |
| 25 | She visited fourteen countries , going to places which often no one else would visit . |
| 26 | Within many sites , however , there are ranges of buildings which often occupy enclosed strips of land not unlike medieval crofts , suggesting that some people , craftsmen included , were raising their own produce or keeping their own pigs and fowl . |
| 27 | And as Wolff ( 1983a , p. 37 ) points out , ‘ despite important constitutional , social and medical disadvantages which often contribute to their genesis , the disorders themselves are most helpfully explained on the basis of psychological mechanisms . ’ |
| 28 | Not to mention the pressure to play happy families which often leads to arguments and tears , or loneliness and depression . |
| 29 | The rental of such an office could not have been great , but it was little things which often had a quite disproportionate impact upon burgh councillors , for such a move would give tangible proof that the party which could arrange it had the ear of government and could thus effect other , and perhaps more far-reaching , changes . |
| 30 | The booklet took the form of a discussion document , examining the rationale behind curriculum planning , discussing methods of resolving the problems which often arise when a reshaping of the curriculum is attempted within a school , and identifying ways of monitoring progress and of assessing what has been achieved . |