Example sentences of "[noun] often [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , of course , not easy to interpret the columns of figures which appear in the school brochure — and headteachers often seem to be adept at presenting their results in positive terms . |
| 2 | What is extraordinary is that it is taking off in England — the land of the Stiff Upper Lip , where the primary emotion often seems to be fear of embarrassment . |
| 3 | The focusing of consciousness often appears to be concerned with the attempted resolution of unfinished business . |
| 4 | Formal links between propositions , such as if , so and therefore , tend to be uncommon and , consequently , " cause-and-effect " and " logical " relationships often have to be constructed by readers . |
| 5 | Staff relationships often seem to be most successful when the unit or resource teacher takes a full part as a member of the school staff and is involved in general activities in the school . |
| 6 | The overall impression resulting from these findings is that emergency services specifically designed for potential attempters might be of benefit to some , but the impulsive nature of the act , and the fact that the attempt often appears to be carried out with a particular purpose not related to help-seeking , but aimed at someone in close proximity , reduces the chances of preventing suicide attempts by this method alone . |
| 7 | Not only do books often tend to be rather broad in their approach to a subject , but they can also take a long time to be published after they are written and the information may thus be out of date . |
| 8 | at present good recruits often have to be chased to Bramshill [ on the lengthy command courses ] , because chief constables are not anxious to spare able men , and officers themselves are reluctant to be separated from their families and homes , as well as having a fear that they might lose from being ‘ out of sight , out of mind ’ for promotion . |
| 9 | Some pupils expressed strong negative views on having to deal with the two systems , and several tasks were tried out in two versions , one with metric units and one with Imperial units , the version with Imperial units often proving to be easier . |
| 10 | These covers often seem to be added for effect rather than functionality . |
| 11 | The dilemma is worse still in that religion often appears to be inextricably and centrally involved in the perpetration of crime and the proliferation of human misery and damage to the environment . |
| 12 | More fragile sites often need to be roofed over or be completely enclosed in order to prevent their deterioration . |
| 13 | Rural institutions and local government in rural areas often tend to be dominated by a powerful and unrepresentative minority which represents its own interests rather than those of the majority . |
| 14 | Counselling responses often have to be rapid , based on personal judgement rather than precise theoretical principles . |
| 15 | Because of the division of labour , work soon became the perpetual repetition of a simple task , or the minding of a machine ; such work often had to be done for fourteen hours a day , six days a week , and there were no special provisions for the women and very young children who were considered especially suitable for work in the textile industries . |
| 16 | It must be remembered that the work often has to be moved by hand . |
| 17 | Ruckelshaus is a marked contrast to Burford and her political mentor , the Interior Secretary James Watt , whose attitude often seemed to be that the environment was over-protected . |
| 18 | In the UK , for example , economic expans-ions often had to be cut short by restrictive domestic policies as an increased demand for imports led to a deterioration in the balance of payments . |
| 19 | Human error often proves to be a major contributor to overall levels of risk and many deserve specific consideration . |
| 20 | ‘ Sleeping tablets will get you to sleep but can cause hangovers and a bleary feeling , and businessmen often have to be at meetings within half an hour of landing . |
| 21 | Protestant churches were not unaffected by the spirit in which the campaign often appeared to be conducted . |
| 22 | Family rules and strategies of obtaining help often need to be made clear . |
| 23 | The right to preach within the Mass is jealously reserved to the clergy , whereas members of the laity often prove to be endowed with this charism . |
| 24 | Because the authors have kept so many different cichlids over the year , the normal run of filters often prove to be unsuitable in a given situation . |
| 25 | It thus represents , on the part of the supposedly non-modernist Hardy , a stratagem often taken to be definitively modernist : the use of an ancient fable to structure and resonate with a twentieth-century narrative , as the Odyssey structures and resonates with James Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 26 | It is obvious that , not only is it necessary for students with disabilities to have reasonable transport , but that their transport often has to be specially adapted . |
| 27 | A lot of foods we make from wheat flour often tend to be very high in calories , seem to be almost irresistible to hungry slimmers , and are often used as ‘ binge ’ g=foods by compulsive eaters . |
| 28 | Certainly a picture often seems to be ‘ framed ’ perfectly in such cases . |
| 29 | The Wealden clays supported a richer , more diverse agriculture than the Hastings Beds formation , where impoverished sandy soils combined with abrupt contours largely restricted farming to stock keeping , and grain often had to be brought from elsewhere . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , such feelings often tend to be both unpleasant to experience and to hinder behaviour . |