Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In areas settled by Germanic peoples and governed by their kings new forms of government and new political institutions often coexisted with older political traditions of Roman origin . |
| 2 | It is worth remembering that luck often comes to the aid of the experimenter . |
| 3 | Experimental studies of turbulent flows often involve the interpretation of correlation measurements . |
| 4 | The expanding European states often brought the energy of incipient nationalism to their forward march , but more or less all the states they encountered outside Europe were organized on the principle of allegiance or loyalty to the ruler . |
| 5 | The illustration of such a double logic working at a textual level often comes to seem remarkably close to a deconstructive analysis : in the same way as Derrida or de Man could be said to be deconstructing received readings that have institutional purchase , so the new historicists shift our understanding of institutionalized historical accounts . |
| 6 | ‘ . Organisations with strong cultures often centre themselves around almost legendary figures in their history . |
| 7 | If you read with such issues in mind — and how they actively affect what sense you can make of a text — introductory notes often become relevant and interesting in unexpected ways . |
| 8 | This strung shotting technique often requires you to fish two or three feet overdepth . |
| 9 | Nobody seems to have put astronomy near chemistry ; and the trouble with all series is that progress often seems to happen on the frontiers of sciences that on the philosopher 's map seem as far apart as Finland and Portugal . |
| 10 | Each image is a complete story often told through a dense , receding picture space . |
| 11 | In broadcasting , short-term contracts often replace staff jobs . |
| 12 | The characteristic swelling of the lymph glands between the lower jaw often take several days to develop and these signs usually confirm a strangles case . |
| 13 | But people who have trouble with emotional intimacy often use extra-marital sex as a way of keeping some distance from their mates . |
| 14 | Though high-pollution drivers often have old cars , the speed-obsessed owners of sports cars are equally guilty of environmental thoughtlessness . |
| 15 | Accordingly workers striking on an economic upswing often found employers more ready to negotiate than to prosecute , although if masters decided to combine to take on the union by resisting a wage demand or even enforcing a cut and bound themselves not to employ each other 's dismissed workmen , the law might be a more ready resort . |
| 16 | After that Creggan often talked to her , sometimes in a barest whisper that only she could hear , and other times more powerfully so that others could share her dream and inner peacefulness . |
| 17 | At a local level , research shows that practice often does not follow policy and men continue to hold fast to their power ( Cunnison , 1983 and forthcoming ) . |
| 18 | The dilemma is worse still in that religion often appears to be inextricably and centrally involved in the perpetration of crime and the proliferation of human misery and damage to the environment . |
| 19 | Experienced advisers never respond to this question , but the unrepresented applicant often responds to the question with bizarre unsupportable allegations of bias and corruption by the employer which are sometimes seized on by the tribunal to the prejudice of the applicant . |
| 20 | Unlike Stalin and Khruschev , Elena did not use her dilettante approach to science to promote a bogus figure like the Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko — though it must be admitted that Nicolae Ceauşescu 's interventions in agricultural practice often recalled the half-baked interference of Lysenko 's patron , Khruschev . |
| 21 | No wonder that women in their private relationships often mistake one set of characteristics for another : violence for strength , careerism for inner purposefulness , emotional distance for emotional balance , and sexual confidence for inner strength . |
| 22 | A major development in rural industry often took the form of town based capitalists organising the labours of village artificers . |
| 23 | Temporary workers and overtime working could be substitutes or complements ( albeit that overtime often permits a more immediate response and entails no recruitment training costs ) , and our case studies explore this issue in more detail . |
| 24 | It recognizes that professional decision-makers often form themselves into factions for the purposes of bargaining . |
| 25 | This family is characterised by the disk covered with plates often carrying spinelets or granules which do not conceal them , except in Ophiopholis where the granules obscure the plates ; radial shields usually conspicuous ; one apical papilla flanked with rounded oral papillae often separated from it by a diastema and not forming a contiguous series with it , except in Histampica ; the second oral tentacle pore opening within the oral slit ; arm spines short , pointed and erect , not appressed to the side of the arm . |
| 26 | I found that a traditional Scottish technique often brought splendid results , particularly in calm conditions . |
| 27 | The approach of a body of unmated males to a group of harems is always the signal for a whole series of challenges and chases of this kind often initiated by the harem owners themselves . |
| 28 | Commercial contracts often contain time bars which seek to prevent claims after a specified date . |
| 29 | The possibilities opened up are exceptionally exciting and realisable provided certain strange notions of academic freedom ( in this case often amounting to a student fishing desperately around for an ‘ original ’ and totally useless subject like the history of his old school ) , can be avoided . |
| 30 | The hasty flight to apparently universal rules often gives philosophical notions only a specious air of universality . |