Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb -s] often [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Ironically , in the West , the sale of videotape recorders has often seemed to grow in step with industrial unemployment . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Along with the dominance of a masculine value system in art and art history has often come a blindness to female existence , even when the reality of women 's roles is well documented by the art of a given place or period ’ . |
| 5 | For example training in recruitment under the equal opportunity policy has often proved to be more acceptable . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Incomplete measurement of growth indices has often prevented or biased retrospective assessment of such data . |
| 8 | The problem is often the worst in developing countries such as Sri Lanka , where the introduction of cheap nylon nets has often enabled coastal states to rapidly expand their fishing industries . |