Example sentences of "are often [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once rural bus services are subsidized they become vulnerable to withdrawal by councils dominated by car-owners wishing to limit increases in the rates , while those who need the service are often without a voice at County Hall . |
| 2 | Other observers have also detected significant departures from ‘ pure ’ bureaucracy in Soviet systems of government , though these are often of a type familiar to Western students of bureaucracy and have positive results , such as entrepreneurial initiative , departures from hierarchical principles , the development of informal relationships , creativity , pragmatism and instrumentalism ( Granick 1954 ; Armstrong 1965 ; Stewart 1969 ; Hough 1969 ; Churchward 1968 ; Hough 1973 ) . |
| 3 | At the non-advanced level , four main types of full-time course are available : the Ordinary National Diploma ( OND ) , a three-year sandwich course in general agricultural subjects , designed to meet the needs of the ‘ technician ’ ; the National Certificate , a one-year course for those intending to work as practical farmers , growers , or farm secretaries ; College Award courses which vary in length and in standard and are often of a specialist nature such as flower-growing or farm secretarial work ; and BEC Diploma courses which are being introduced by a small number of colleges . |
| 4 | Where problems do crop up in the records they are often of the type that are familiar to all families with teenagers . |
| 5 | The competitive element is , on the whole , damaging to artistic endeavour , especially in the school situation where co-operation and mutual encouragement in a non-judgmental environment are often of the essence . |
| 6 | Socks are often at the centre of the mini-wars at which couples engage . |
| 7 | That last archipelago probably suffers the most horrific conservation problems in the world , and pigs are often at the centre of them . |
| 8 | They are often at the rear or side of the main hospital building , or even sited completely away from the main thoroughfare . |
| 9 | Apart from the recession , drugs are often at the root of many offences . |
| 10 | There is also a good wine list and local delicacies such as crab , scampi and sole are often on the menu . |
| 11 | The methods of enforcing a security interest depend upon the nature of the rights which it confers and are often in no way peculiar to company law . |
| 12 | One fact that contradicts it immediately is that women are often in the vanguard of linguistic change towards the standard variety . |
| 13 | This is why many Georgian and Victorian houses are out on their own , whereas William and Mary and Queen Anne houses are often in the middle of villages , where the original manor had always stood . |
| 14 | And even street vendors are often in the hold of middle-persons who are also their creditors . |
| 15 | A major problem in the use of this distribution is that reported data are often in the form of totals or aggregates , summed over potentially important explanatory variables . |
| 16 | Causes of uncertainty are often in the area of giving and receiving instructions and in making sure that information is correctly understood . |