Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] often [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe firmly that John McEnroe is not lying when he says he sees the small print on a tennis ball , and Jackie himself has often referred to his vision as a paramount essential in driving . |
| 2 | Hopefully , the Fox and Hedley Walton cases will encourage the executors of land-owning taxpayers to fight over-valuation , which has often assumed the status of a national scandal . |
| 3 | We need to reassess these relationships in the context of the non-committed ownership phenomenon which has often caused company auditors in the UK to work in a vacuum . |
| 4 | They cautioned against an obsession with modern communication technology which has often led to the marginalisation of many in rural communities . |
| 5 | The same acute musical intelligence is brought to bear on the rest of the performance : the second movement is a ‘ Dumka ’ which has often received rather heavy-handed treatment in the past . |
| 6 | They have managed therefore to avoid the suspicion of conflict of interest which has often attached to the positive planning efforts of local planning authorities . |
| 7 | In fact , although there are both surreal and baroque elements in his work , Gironella prefers to call it mestizo ’ , a term which has often had negative , racist overtones but which has been acclaimed in this century , especially in Mexico , as a positive value , indeed the distinguishing feature of Mexican culture : the rich and fruitful mixture of the European with the indigenous American . |
| 8 | All these services require substantial management and specialist support beyond the initial setting-up period , which has often proved difficult to provide . |
| 9 | The patients whom I find most tragic are those who come for help in dealing with abuse which occurred fifty or sixty years ago , and which has often crippled them mentally and emotionally ever since . |
| 10 | William , who has often booked the Beauchamp Place eatery for lunch with the princess , reserved a table for himself , Harry and their nanny . |
| 11 | Stavros Niachos , 81 , will neither confirm nor deny that he was the buyer of Yo , Picasso , the 1901 self-portrait of the artist at his easel , staring boldly out at the new century ; but it certainly went to the bidder who has often acted on his behalf . |
| 12 | As she has often said , her inspiration is French but her realisation is American . |
| 13 | She has often stated that , for her , music is one of life 's most important elements . |
| 14 | In recent years she has often taken to using the catalogue just for herself , looking on the agency commission as a personal discount . |
| 15 | As such he has often led the army into battle , and is one of the most experienced generals in the Old World . |
| 16 | Although he has often made references to this in his writings , he developed his argument more fully whilst a member of the Peacock Committee . |
| 17 | He has often argued that one of Microsoft 's key competitive advantages is precisely that his firm is not like the old computer giants , offering customers everything from chips and computers to software and service contracts . |
| 18 | He has often remarked in wonder over the fact that they stayed together so long despite their differences . |
| 19 | He has often joked that he would like to take over from John Peel when he retires . |
| 20 | From Les Amants to Pretty Baby he has often seemed to be using sexual subjects to make films about something else entirely , and in as much as sex and the life force are connected , his two sexiest films remain Viva Maria and Zazie dans Le Metro , which have nothing to do with sex at all . |
| 21 | He has often claimed , most recently in the Sunday Times magazine , that : ‘ I do n't like talking about [ my background ] , and I do n't like reading about it . |
| 22 | He has often told friends he would like to write and he obviously has the creativity that could be adapted to another form of expression . |
| 23 | He has often shown himself ready to make concessions when faced with genuine mass discontent . |
| 24 | We know he is interested in trains ; the railway runs at the back of his house , and he has often watched the trains and he knows them well . |
| 25 | Although Kapil 's arrival led to some sportier tracks around the country , he has often had to contend with unhelpful pitches , which makes his overall record at home even more praiseworthy : 204 wickets in 58 Tests , at an average of 26.73 . |
| 26 | Ironically , the government really has been true to its policy of noninterference in the ‘ free market ’ where women 's opportunities are concerned , though in other areas it has often recognised the paradox that non-interventionist policies require intervention to make them work . |
| 27 | It has often achieved less than that — by keeping corrupt governments and their economy-wrecking policies in place . |
| 28 | Poetry has often been a form of self-pity and a means of self-advancement , and it has often pretended otherwise : Kundera 's book rumbles such pretence , as in the comedy he stages of an embassy of poets to a college of policemen and a debate there about the aesthetic of the socialist love-poem . |
| 29 | It has often struck me that remedial classes everywhere in the school system are heavily populated with boys needing help with their language development , yet when able girls slide down in mathematics , that is generally considered as something ‘ natural ’ about which no active steps need be taken . |
| 30 | As it has often done in the modern period , the experience of war had given those who had taken part in it and survived it a new and more confident awareness of their own worth and standing . |