Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] often [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she has often said , her inspiration is French but her realisation is American . |
| 2 | She has often stated that , for her , music is one of life 's most important elements . |
| 3 | In recent years she has often taken to using the catalogue just for herself , looking on the agency commission as a personal discount . |
| 4 | As such he has often led the army into battle , and is one of the most experienced generals in the Old World . |
| 5 | Although he has often made references to this in his writings , he developed his argument more fully whilst a member of the Peacock Committee . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He has often remarked in wonder over the fact that they stayed together so long despite their differences . |
| 8 | He has often joked that he would like to take over from John Peel when he retires . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He has often shown himself ready to make concessions when faced with genuine mass discontent . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It has often achieved less than that — by keeping corrupt governments and their economy-wrecking policies in place . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It has often caused them embarrassment . |
| 21 | It has often provided dates where there was previously no method of dating available at all , and for many periods , accuracy to the nearest century or so is far better than produced by previous dating methods . |
| 22 | It has often dithered and sometimes blundered , but it has never walked away . |
| 23 | We can certainly make some progress towards doing so by peeling away the gender-drama from the conflicts of ideals in which it has often figured , and trying to see those conflicts in sex-neutral terms . |
| 24 | It has often occurred in the fields of social security and local government , in which the few local authority victories in the courts have proved extremely short lived . |
| 25 | It has often seemed to me that the combination of boredom after intense campaigning and the only alternative offered — luxurious idleness — was indeed reminiscent of what the censorious historians of the late Roman Republic saw as the existence which sapped the fibre of Hannibal 's army when in winter quarters in Campania after Can nae . |
| 26 | The kind of variation revealed by occasional spellings as primary evidence does not always fit comfortably into the standard historical linguistic mould , and so it has often seemed convenient to ignore it or explain it away , sometimes on the grounds that variability of the kind apparently attested is ‘ impossible ’ . |
| 27 | Yet it has often happened that attacks on such alternative groups , by established opinion , have shifted them into conscious opposition as distinct from conscious dissent or the offering of a conscious alternative . |
| 28 | ‘ I have been there before and it has often worked out well for me . |
| 29 | ‘ I have been there before and it has often worked out well for me . |
| 30 | Information on the effects of social work is frequently not systematically collected ; where a programme of research studies has been conducted over the past decade , it has often proved difficult to develop a co-ordinated body of knowledge which can be applied to future work . |