Example sentences of "they often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They often bridged a social and economic division , and held an ambiguous position vis-à-vis the daimyo and the hierarchy as a whole . |
| 2 | As penniless brokers they often had to dissipate energy on make-do and mend activities . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , they often had little experience in civil administration and although the system may have seemed effective in suppressing Lombard leadership , ultimately it acted against Frederick 's interests due to its inherent inefficiency and unpopularity . |
| 4 | As well as strengthening the role of governors , the 1986 Act made it impossible for political nominees to control governing bodies , as they often had in the past , while the 1988 Act transfers the management of most schools from local education authorities ( LEAs ) to the individual school . |
| 5 | They often had Fudgana and they were often , he hoped , violently sick in the car about half an hour later . |
| 6 | Even those currents that attached themselves to the drift of labourism , and with which they often had an uneasy relationship , were pathologically infected by the same bourgeois traditions . |
| 7 | They did n't bother much at other times unless asked , and then they often had to think twice . |
| 8 | My parents were discussing some incident in the past and , when I joined in the conversation to ask some question , they told me , as they often had on similar occasions , ‘ Of course , that was before you were born . ’ |
| 9 | Because of their early contact with parents they often had considerable influence in steering parents towards specialist provision . |
| 10 | Because students felt that they could not approach staff , they often had problems about what to do when they could n't understand the work : |
| 11 | They often had this sort of conversation , and Constance always made allowances for Scarlet 's naivety : such slowness on the uptake was the result of a sheltered background and not necessarily a sign of limited intelligence , though she sometimes wondered . |
| 12 | Yet morale in the European shops was never as high as in their UK counterparts and they often had to beg for a booster visit from their patrons . |
| 13 | People became politicised because many of the issues of the day affected them directly , and they often had the chance to give expression to their political feelings through petitions , demonstrations , riots and , for those with the right to vote , at the polls . |
| 14 | It was striking that many of the girls I spoke to with anorexia or bulimia ( an eating disorder similar to anorexia , but in which sufferers make themselves sick or take laxatives to keep their weight down ; both methods are extremely dangerous to health ) told of an incident ( which they often insist was small or insignificant ) of sexual harassment or abuse which marked the start of their body obsession . |
| 15 | If they 've been changing the pipes or digging them up or something they often flush it through with a load of chlorine , the water of or b Boil it erm As water get 's hotter , and something like sugar , would you get would you find , Let's say you get a cup of cold water and you try and dissolve as much sugar as you can in it , and then you try hot water , try disolv |
| 16 | They often claim to be working for the council and sometimes have ‘ road maintenance ’ painted on the side of their lorries . |
| 17 | At some stage , children become stronger than their parents ; they often become more intelligent , quicker-thinking … they may also be better-educated than their parents were and even better-off financially . |
| 18 | If they are frail or disabled and housebound they often become members of the tea-toast-and-tinned-soup brigade , and develop various kinds of vitamin-deficiency diseases . |
| 19 | During analysis it appears that they often become involved with women who are attached to another man , and that they are unconsciously seeking to re-create the early family situation . |
| 20 | Under ordinary border conditions they often become stunted and their leaves burned at the edges because they are too dry , so the only place in which they can be grown properly is a bog garden . |
| 21 | When the latter were realigned or made anew they often met the earlier roads at a sharp angle on the parish boundaries . |
| 22 | They had the same friends , and they often met at parties . |
| 23 | They often show lower selectivity ( more undesired by-products are often produced ) and little is understood about how they work . |
| 24 | While officers struggled with each other to improve their own positions they often united to block any attempts at reform by the Crown . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , when children are confronted with points of view that are different from their own , they often assume similarity where there is none . |
| 26 | When people talk together about marriage they often assume they are discussing the same thing . |
| 27 | Exhibitions are fine , but they often assume an impersonal and detached form . |
| 28 | Conversely , they often assume , as do others , that someone working on religion theoretically and empirically does so from the standpoint of a believer , with the underlying assumption , ‘ Why else would anyone be interested in such a traditional , out-dated , and unimportant institution ? ’ |
| 29 | They often assume a highly symmetric form with slopes at , or close to , the angle of stability of the ejecta ( Fig. 3.12 ) . |
| 30 | They often appoint high-status officials to monitor the spending and accounts of operating agencies ( Self 1985 , p. 68 ) . |