Example sentences of "[noun] often [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Clients often report that they stop seeing themselves as abnormal when they meet others in a similar situation . |
| 3 | Clients often feel that they are ‘ the only one in the world ’ with this particular complaint . |
| 4 | A staff development interview often reveals that the teacher , once settled in , wants to do more in order to extend the interest and the responsibility of teaching . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Families in therapy often say that one of their children is particularly good while another is especially difficult . |
| 7 | These bounds often show that a particular parish , township , or tithing was the same in the tenth century as in the nineteenth , and we become aware of the remarkable persistence of boundaries . |
| 8 | The styling often means that they are ideal for both casual and serious outdoor use . |
| 9 | A good horse trainer teaches a horse good habits so that it does what he wants it to do automatically , without it learning any undesirable behaviour or bad habits in the process ; but a poor trainer often finds that his horses learn something unwanted at the same time . |
| 10 | Organizations often forget that for an inventor , the joy comes in savoring the solution . |
| 11 | Cannabis Teenagers often insist that cannabis is harmless , but it has been shown to be a high risk for certain users . |
| 12 | Product choice , the degree of soiling and other variables often mean that there are three or four different methods of cleaning a single surface . |
| 13 | To have one or two strict parameters often means that other pollutants , which can remain unspecified in the consent document , are brought under control . |
| 14 | Courtney often claimed that six of his eight brothers and sisters were also qualified doctors . |
| 15 | Brenda often thought that this was the part of the working day she liked best , the hour before the staff arrived and the work of the Lab got really under way , when she and Inspector Blakelock worked together in the quiet emptiness of the hall , still and solemn as a church , making up a supply of manila folders ready to register the day 's new cases , repacking exhibits for collection by the police , making a final check of the Laboratory reports to courts to ensure that the examination was complete , that no relevant detail had been omitted . |
| 16 | John has some mysterious tales to tell about the castle : ‘ Visitors often say that they can smell newly-baked bread in the drawing room in the eastern tower . |
| 17 | Parents often complain that they can only get help or support when they have identified themselves as having a specific problem , and it is not unusual for some families to have several different workers trying to offer support and advice on specific problems which , in reality , are part of a whole situation . |
| 18 | Parents often feel that their children should not have everything that they ask for and try to provide some restraint . |
| 19 | Golfers often state that they can not concentrate on all their swing ideas at the same time . |
| 20 | Setting definite population targets often means that more wide-ranging efforts to improve health and wellbeing are neglected . |
| 21 | Marital breakdown often means that families must move — 58 per cent had done so in the Bradshaw and Millar survey . |
| 22 | Sri Lankans did not believe that it was morally wrong to convict a known cattle thief on false evidence , and officials often complained that true cases were spoilt by complainants who added additional false evidence . |
| 23 | Officials often complained that the victim of cattle theft preferred paying the ransom to instituting a court case . |
| 24 | Whereas radical movements of a more practical nature often proclaim that they have found the truth and try to establish a world-order based upon this , doubt is firmly institutionalised within the scientific realm . |
| 25 | Careful investigation often shows that these people have a dual problem : they are sensitive to foods and chemicals on the one hand , and they are hyperventilating on the other . |
| 26 | The other great method of investigation and discovery of information was by the appointment of select committees , governments often feeling that they could not oppose motions seeking to elicit the facts on any situation . |
| 27 | For example , the constraints of women 's lifestyles and their domestic and family responsibilities often mean that they are effectively discriminated against in terms of availability for election and service . |
| 28 | In an arranged marriage the husband often insists that his wife brings a pretty little mu tsai along as part of her dowry . |
| 29 | So closely was Ceauşescu identified with the policy of nepotism that local people and foreign observers often presumed that men like Verdeţ or Manescu were intermarried with the clan . |
| 30 | Eighteenth-century observers often argued that naval battles between opponents of more or less equal strength were almost certain to be indecisive , that naval warfare was by its nature unlikely to produce victories of the kind which might be expected on land . |