Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time- asymmetry thus implies that while the terrain was undergoing upheaval new types of animal arose through a feedback process , because they needed the land for further food , and because the waxing and waning ice-ages together with ( or as a result of ) the early breakup and reformation of the continents often had major and fatal consequences for marine and land faunas . |
| 2 | He makes an inventory of forms , but not of contexts in which the forms arise — this would be a very difficult task as the forms often overlap and can cause confusion to the learner . |
| 3 | What little the labourers often had they sought to preserve , supported frequently by local tradesmen and small farmers who feared the end of their contracts with the parish overseers . |
| 4 | Bollards are prone to sudden collapse , and the ropes often jam in the groove behind the capstan during retrieval . |
| 5 | I mentioned that the patterns often arise from a ‘ hurt ’ . |
| 6 | Additionally , the cities often contain much larger numbers of the elderly than national figures would suggest , and far fewer from the higher socio-economic categories . |
| 7 | Says Nina : ‘ If it 's a girl the courts often deem she needs her mum 's influence . |
| 8 | The courts often sit for months over scientific questions — for example , whether whooping cough vaccine caused brain damage — and the GMC may imagine itself stuck with cases lasting months and costing millions . |
| 9 | Moreover , care orders have been obtained on the education ground without much difficulty , the courts often taking the view that if the child was not receiving a suitable education it was likely that the separate care and control test would almost certainly have been satisfied . |
| 10 | When interpreting statutes the courts often announce that they are trying to discover ‘ the intention of the legislature . ’ |
| 11 | No hospital order will be made where the defendant is said to have recovered , and the courts often feel it necessary to impose a prison sentence in such cases . |
| 12 | When , at the end of the Second World War , France was liberated , those who had collaborated excessively with the Germans often had their hair cut off by the French Resistance . |
| 13 | A subfamily of the Ophiacanthidae with small imbricating transparent scales or skin covering the disk , the scales often armed with spinelets or granules which may obscure them ; the disk sack-like , sometimes indented interradially ; the radial shields not integrated with the disk but over laid by the scales or skin covering the disk with only their distal ends evident ; the jaws as broad as long ; one to several apical papillae flanked by three to many oral papillae each side ; tentacle pores not conspicuously large usually armed with at least one tentacle scale ; arm spines vary in length but dorsal ones usually longer than one arm segment , sometimes forming a fan on proximal arm segments . |
| 14 | Comments showed that the success or otherwise of the groups often rested on their shoulders . |
| 15 | The rules often have no logic . |
| 16 | The products often disappoint : the criteria for evaluation both of product and of teaching are hard to determine . |
| 17 | First , the inequalities of the system lead to demands for more and better education for the majority of their peoples ; second , the authorities often regard education as a direct threat to their domination so that teachers , academics and indeed books are targets of repression and censorship . |
| 18 | When this occurs the couriers often take benzodiazepines to stop themselves from getting too ‘ high ’ or agitated , but the outcome is nevertheless often fatal . |
| 19 | When reviewers criticise software for not including such a facility the manufacturers often reply that it 's only journalists who are interested in this feature and that ‘ ordinary users ’ find a word count irrelevant . |
| 20 | They claim the animals often suffer from deformities and illnesses , and bitches are shot when they 're no longer able to produce puppies . |
| 21 | The killing can then be a long and slow process , and the animals often have to endure hours trapped in the midst of the bloody massacre of their family , awaiting their own agonising mutilation . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , sons of the clergy often go to the bad , and daughters too . |
| 23 | In Elizabeth I 's reign ( and , indeed , at other times ) the standard of education and diligence among the clergy often left much to be desired . |
| 24 | It was n't a safe time to communicate as the guards often popped in to see that we were still exercising . |
| 25 | The Norwegians often have fair hair . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | Lacking any real context , unattached to any larger understanding of why relationships between managers and workers matter , the prescriptions often remain shallow and are treated as such . |
| 28 | Their owners were also beginning to notice what was going on and commented on the changes that were making their business more difficult , for the books often had no dispersal markings on them . |
| 29 | I might try to read , but the words often do n't make much sense ! ’ |
| 30 | But those who do take the risks often reap the rewards . ’ |