Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] often [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Refugee families in obvious distress were discouraged and often prevented from joining their relations and Asian friends in Britain by the Board 's refusal of all aid to them if they settled in areas with significant Asian populations . |
| 2 | Controversy rages over their safety , and value-added components of any variety in our diet are mistrusted and often suspected of being there largely for the benefit of the manufacturer , not the consumer . |
| 3 | This will certainly be the case if the people concerned at the local level take this view , failing to grasp the strategic role that they have always claimed but often failed to deliver convincingly because of time spent on day-to-day operational matters . |
| 4 | Democracy has been a very recent , delicate and somewhat sparse growth , continually threatened and often stifled by property-owning , privileged and dominant groups who are always fearful of any autonomous , unregulated incursion of the ‘ masses ’ into politics . |
| 5 | His survival as a traditional monarch was exceptional in a period when , elsewhere in Africa , tribal authority was denigrated and often pushed aside as an antique obstacle to the path of modernization and national self-determination . |
| 6 | The albatrosses too were mercilessly hunted and often left , plucked and dying , where the sealers found them . |
| 7 | The nurses were well trained in dealing with rich patients who were used to doing as they pleased and often disliked accepting the discipline of routine ; they knew that the very old , the alcoholics , and the more than slightly batty patients ( called ‘ eccentric ’ ) had to be carefully supervised . |
| 8 | Many modern reproduction period ornaments are well made and often based on high-quality originals . |
| 9 | We have been shown meanwhile that there was a great deal more continuity in the northern cities than had been supposed ; and that the contrast in their sites and situations between the cities of the plain in northern Europe and northern Italy , and the cities of the hills in Tuscany and Umbria , was the result in both cases of a long and complex history , of choices deliberately made and often repeated . |
| 10 | In 1876 a handsome suite of royal waiting-rooms was erected and often used for luncheon parties when the royal party was on a shoot . |
| 11 | As with most work which boldly centres on the male sexual organ , these photographs seek to reveal the normally hidden and often denied vulnerability of the male physique . |
| 12 | The CIC ( Charles Inglis Clark ) hut is ideally situated and often deserted in summer . |
| 13 | Notions of real structure are at least suspect and often rejected altogether . |
| 14 | Despite being a little known and often misunderstood technique , silverpoint is still in use by contemporary artists and some specialist suppliers in the UK offer silverpoints and prepared paper . |
| 15 | It dyes wool a reddish brown colour , distinctively well known and often referred to in either language as crotal . |
| 16 | Darod women they raped and often killed too . |
| 17 | Given the miles of corridor which had to be traversed , this essential commodity left the kitchens boiling but often arrived either tepid or cold . |
| 18 | He was hitting huge distances down wind but his shots to the green failed to bite and often rolled on into the rough beyond . |
| 19 | Microscopically , the epithelium is hyperplastic with an increase in the size and number of mucus-secreting cells while the lamina propria is heavily infiltrated and often surrounded by inflammatory cells , predominately lymphocytes . |
| 20 | Souza , like the murdered leader of the seringueiros rubber-tappers ' union Francisco " Chico " Mendes Filho [ see pp. 36459 ; 37914 ] , was a well known environmentalist who campaigned against the destruction of the rain forest for cattle pasture , and against cattle ranchers who expelled and often killed landless workers who occupied their land . |
| 21 | The CAP , the largest component of the EC 's budget , by providing assistance on the basis of output and type of product , was not regionally directed and often worked in the opposite direction to regional policy . |
| 22 | Albanian men are imprisoned , tortured and often shot without any recourse to justice . |
| 23 | Many of the explorers of the time were afflicted and often killed by malaria , or the " ague " as it was called . |
| 24 | In empirical support of that argument we can now cite the case of the much studied and often reported-upon Mondragon group of co-operative enterprises ; much studied and often reported upon because , as Bradley and Gelb observe , ‘ It represents the largest , possibly the most successful example of a manufacturing co-operative group ’ . |
| 25 | One is astonished , for instance , at how the daughter of Olivia Shakespear , no ordinary mother , was restricted , even in the arty society that she and Olivia frequented , by the still rigid conventions that wheeled her , uncomplaining but always chaperoned and often bored to tears , through a round of pointless visitings . |
| 26 | Their tall , shapely helmets are intricately carved and often encrusted in precious gems , for Elves love gemstones and use them to decorate their wargear . |
| 27 | Because of the scarcity of ministers , young conforming curates were appointed to many of the kirks but they were disliked , ignored and often abused by the congregations . |
| 28 | Incontinence can be managed and often cured if the reasons for it are known . |
| 29 | Yet in some parts of the United States , as in Texas , tens of thousands of rattlesnakes are rounded up , killed , skinned and often eaten at barbecues . |