Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] often [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The success of this fairly new treatment has led to increasing numbers of terminally ill patients being referred for consideration of transplantation , many of these being referred as a final option , when intensive support in hospital is required and when secondary end organ damage has often developed . |
| 2 | Demolition has often involved appalling social disruption where not only the fabric of the building but also families , businesses and communities have been broken up . |
| 3 | Human ingenuity has often confounded the pessimists . |
| 4 | The writer has often pondered on the manner of their selection , and likes to feel that their skill carried more weight than their religious affiliations . |
| 5 | The jinx has often centred on the simple art of mixing concrete . |
| 6 | She is also a singer and musician , and her talent as a pianist has often come in useful to teachers with specialist classes . |
| 7 | Precisely because the Church mistakes herself for the present form of the Kingdom , God 's rule has often had to manifest itself in the secular world outside , and frequently against , the Church ’ ( Pannenberg 1975:78 ) . |
| 8 | His work has often incorporated a story-board-like element , smaller ‘ pictures ’ marching in squared-off boxes around the borders of his canvases or forming a predella-like frieze along the bottom . |
| 9 | Yet it is important not to confuse attentiveness with the kind of frowning application traditional academic work has often encouraged . |
| 10 | Similarly , the thesis of Western historians that Protestant Christianity was more conducive to the expansion of science than Catholicism has often carried a hidden agenda . |
| 11 | But the very strength of local independence has often impeded the transition to a more globally integrated structure : past strength can prove to be a handicap when the competitive battle changes . |
| 12 | The detergent feeds often fitted are expensive ways of using chemicals . |
| 13 | In all these , especially in the production of new words , reform has often taken place without a recognition of the implications for music in worship . |
| 14 | Over the last two centuries minority unrest has often stemmed from a thwarted intelligentsia impatient for power and capable of perceiving its nationality 's relative backwardness . |
| 15 | From the high point in 1984 , when Marks ' fortune was worth some £47 million , the group has often plunged into losses , and Marks had to bring in a new chief executive . |
| 16 | Given the pressures of numbers , limited resources for positive work in education and trade training , limited work opportunities and staff and prisoner unrest , even that modest aim has often seemed unattainable . |
| 17 | Such intervention has often had to be exerted through covert pressure , since it conflicts not only with the formality of managerial autonomy , but also with the achievement of other formally defined goals such as financial performance targets and even policies on controlling public sector wages . |
| 18 | Literary criticism has often taken precisely this assumption as its starting point , and has presumed that a literary text is not necessarily saying what it intends to say or even what it appears to say — hence the need for critical interpretation . |
| 19 | In fact , media education has often developed in a very explicit way concepts which are of general importance in English . |
| 20 | Historically , higher education has often seemed reluctant to admit new fields of study and enquiry ; witness the problems faced by the natural sciences and professional fields in nineteenth-century Oxbridge , or by the social sciences in the twentieth century . |
| 21 | This implausible conjunction has often led people to suppose that insects analyse visual patterns in ways which avoid the need for heavy computation , and that mechanisms involved differ sharply from those operating in mammals . |
| 22 | ‘ Rural development has often appeared to consist of little more than the creation of as many plans , programmes , projects , rural centres , and special development agencies as possible . |
| 23 | For example training in recruitment under the equal opportunity policy has often proved to be more acceptable . |
| 24 | Far from being the lap-dog of central government , however , the Audit Commission has often flexed its muscles against the centre as well as against local authorities . |
| 25 | The Commission has often brought forward proposals using a dubious legal base , and the Council has found it difficult to halt that practice in the European Court . |
| 26 | The daily schedule of an 8.30 press conference followed by a flight , a bus , a walkabout , a lunch with regional media chiefs , a factory visit , a couple of interviews , a speech and another flight has often meant shorter working hours than a parliamentary day . |
| 27 | This need to deal with a tricky political environment has often led to managerial centralization of decisions that may have political overtones , and a consensual style of leadership based around committee structures ( e.g. Batstone et al. |
| 28 | The specific effects of the written text have been the preoccupation of literary theory from Derrida and Barthes onward , and the writerly nature of the novel has often manifested itself in the form of typographical devices which defy oral utterance or those specific to the codex . |
| 29 | Although the industrial countries have had great success in cleaning their air and water , this very success has often increased the amount of solid dirt . |
| 30 | The flaunting of symbols has so often been the occasion for counter-demonstrations and rioting that the government has often banned parades or re-routed them away from particularly sensitive areas . |