Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb -s] often [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The jinx has often centred on the simple art of mixing concrete . |
| 3 | The detergent feeds often fitted are expensive ways of using chemicals . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If British Rail goes ahead with the building of this station at a cost of £1.4 billion , what sort of income will it need to secure from the capital developments to service the loan , bearing in mind the fact that the Minister has often said that the Government will put no money into the project ? |
| 9 | However , national approval has tended in the past to be given without much discussion , in large part because the number of aspirants for candidatures has not been great : the party has often had to adopt whoever was willing to stand . |
| 10 | But regulatory and structural upheavals in the City ahead of and after the ‘ big bang ’ in the British securities markets of 1986 have sparked a revolution within the life insurance industry that the Pearl has often found difficult to keep up with . |