Example sentences of "[noun] often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the process , it discovered such homes often provided better care for seriously mentally frail elderly people than local authority accommodation . |
| 2 | Although , apart from lapis lazuli , supplies of all these were available in Egypt and Sinai , Egyptian craftsmen often had recourse to coloured glass to infill cloisonné cells . |
| 3 | Rafiq was studying his magazine with the kind of intense concentration often assumed by those who are listening to other people 's conversations . |
| 4 | ‘ For example , a decreasing number of persons still object to locally based provisions for mentally handicapped people because understandably their picture of the latter is bounded by bizarre and frightening images often associated with traditional mental handicap hospitals … |
| 5 | In practice , syntactic and semantic considerations often override or interact with communicative considerations to produce structures that do not follow the arrangement of the source text . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , environmental considerations often play a subservient role to economic and political expediency and the concept of long-term sustainability is rarely attributed more than cosmetic attention . |
| 7 | It was n't a safe time to communicate as the guards often popped in to see that we were still exercising . |
| 8 | Cigarette smoke can smell pretty filthy , even to a smoker , while non-smokers often find it unbearable . |
| 9 | Non-smokers often report being treated with condescension in such situations . |
| 10 | But it remains a fact that then , as now , even those highly motivated to peaceful living often find that there is a power working against them from within . |
| 11 | Authors often write , curiously enough , for themselves . |
| 12 | Although often studying less controversial forces than the RUC , this panglossian portrayal has to be disbelieved , especially as the authors often indicated in an occasional footnote , or in a revealing preface or aside , that they faced problems in the field similar to our own ( for example , see van Maamen 1981 : 479 , 492 ; Westley 1970 , p. vii ) , even when the research was covert ( Holdaway 1982 , 1983 : 12 ) . |
| 13 | Games tend to be inherently object-oriented , says Hinsley ( all those sprites moving about and interacting ) and games authors often have to cram a lot into a tiny amount of memory while stretching hardware to its limits . |
| 14 | Games tend to be inherently object-oriented , says Hinsley ( all those sprites moving about and interacting ) and games authors often have to cram a lot into a tiny amount of memory while stretching hardware to its limits . |
| 15 | Support for the Association 's work continues to come forward and the Association is increasingly benefiting from working with other organisations on mutually beneficial projects with the Association often achieving both publicity and financial assistance . |
| 16 | That was how prospective clients often made contact , since Mala and I made the ship our home and office , in space , much of the time . |
| 17 | Clients often make false claims of cold-calling ; sometimes so they might avoid paying for the shares they bought . |
| 18 | Clients often suffered from their trainee dealers ' recommendations and advice , not dreaming how ignorant they were . |
| 19 | Clients often discovered disasters affecting share prices of stocks too late . |
| 20 | Clients often report that they stop seeing themselves as abnormal when they meet others in a similar situation . |
| 21 | As the CAB became accepted , clients often returned with more personal problems . |
| 22 | Clients often expect to make a mixture of appointments , some internally and some from outside their organisation . |
| 23 | Clients often feel that they are ‘ the only one in the world ’ with this particular complaint . |
| 24 | Inevitably , melodies often contain more leaps than in conventional music , or there may be a good deal of semitonal movement or inversions of semitones to create such intervals as 7ths and minor 9ths . |
| 25 | A phobia of lifts often arises within the more complex agoraphobic syndrome and , with the right approach , is not too difficult to break . |
| 26 | Feminist extensions of conventional psychological methodology often resemble more explicitly oppositional programmes for social scientific method . |
| 27 | Highly-viscous lavas are always concerned in Peleean eruptions ; as we saw earlier , a dome or plug of lava often builds up within the crater concerned , blocking the throat of the volcano , so that the pressures building up beneath can only be relieved by vigorous explosions , which may be directed either upwards or sideways , blasting out as nuees ardentes . |
| 28 | Every offering seems to contain at least four separate songs — so there 's rarely any danger of things descending into the kind of tedium often purveyed by dreadlocked squat-dwellers . |
| 29 | Thus policies presented jointly by Britain and the United States often proved more acceptable than if put forward by the United States alone . |
| 30 | On each occasion a common sense category tied to urban renewal often hides a set of social processes which does little for those whose poverty provided the central rationale for urban policy in the first place . |