Example sentences of "it [vb -s] often [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It has often achieved less than that — by keeping corrupt governments and their economy-wrecking policies in place . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It has often caused them embarrassment . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It has often dithered and sometimes blundered , but it has never walked away . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I have been there before and it has often worked out well for me . |
| 15 | ‘ I have been there before and it has often worked out well for me . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In doing so it has often tended to neglect crucial distinctions between the nature of language and the nature of images . |
| 18 | Furthermore , although it may sincerely believe it is a new party , the very fact that it has often changed its mind should debar it from being taken seriously . |