Example sentences of "[adv] often [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain the founding of the Board of Trade Journal in 1886 did something to improve the hitherto often dilatory and irregular publication of consular reports , while the Russian government published such material regularly from the 1890s . |
| 2 | The rewards are confidently expected , otherwise we would abandon reading and do something else , but the rewards are unanalysed , unformulated , unexpressed , and perhaps often unexpressable . |
| 3 | Now er they are then in a situation perhaps often those people who are er less financially well off and sometimes in jobs which this particular might very well lose tomorrow erm their in a difficult situation as far as paying back mortgages is concerned . |
| 4 | In general , professional/ managerial and skilled manual grades were less often ‘ anti-credit ’ than were the lower grade manual and non-manual groups ; young people were less often anti than old . |
| 5 | The slightly older students , John Douglas , Alan Cairns and Bert Cooke , were less often involved in public protests . |
| 6 | Sandy and shingly seashores , less often similar fresh and brackish water shores , rarely sandy flats inland ; in winter also muddy seashores and estuaries . |
| 7 | ‘ . In the W coastal dunes and heaths , estuaries , sandy , muddy and less often rocky seashores , rarely far inland ; in the E by brackish or more rarely freshwater lakes and inland seas . |
| 8 | ‘ Advertisers were pretty willing , even though the recession has hit clerical outfitters — vicars tend to change their black shirts less often these days . ’ |
| 9 | As a general rule , the more complex a society becomes the less often military intervention is likely to occur . |
| 10 | What rights do these children have when their primary need is to survive in often harsh environments and perhaps even help to support their families . |
| 11 | walking you will continue to support the Anti-Apartheid Movement and the A N C and Cosatu and others in South Africa that our eyes should be on the prize and that is to get democracy and the first democratic parliament in the country and after that to help in the horrendously difficult task of reconstruction and development and it is going to be a tough battle in South Africa as elsewhere and we will need to work not just for political democracy because you know so often democratic processes are misunderstood for empowerment of ordinary people and what democracy should really mean is that ordinary people have the opportunity to determine their own destiny and you know from your own advanced society and others how little power individuals have as a result of power of finance capital , of industry and of technology now . |
| 12 | Special old age concessions such as travel permits , cheap beef and butter , of which we are so often proud , emphasize that pensioners are to be treated differently . |
| 13 | Yet this is an area where the emotional strength of junior adventures , so often timid and inadequate , could be deepened if the concept of honour in its universal sense were to be recognised . |
| 14 | Bed wetting is not the most glamorous of paediatric problems ; treating it , however , can be highly rewarding because treatment is so often successful . |
| 15 | Just that she 'd seen Dionne so often sad and unsure . |
| 16 | Every so often one of the packages would let out a loud squawk . |
| 17 | We can usefully begin our discussion here by taking up a very important and characteristic religious theme : the ambiguity or ambivalence which is so often such a striking feature of mystical power . |
| 18 | And it is not that she knows me to be bad or weak , or you either , but her conventional mind could not grasp that a thing so often impure , can be made absolutely and perfectly pure . |
| 19 | I think husbands should have the right to beat their wives , because they 're so often vain and stupid and silly . |
| 20 | Proportion is all , as you should have learned in your craft , and excess , as in this case , is so often unnecessary . ’ |
| 21 | Was that all it would take to banish the feeling of gloom which so often half-incapacitated her ? |
| 22 | How can a woman who is so intelligent be so often stupid ? |
| 23 | The presence of particulate matter and/or condensible fractions in the odorous gas stream must be removed , normally by filtration and condensation respectively , before the main absorption process , and in doing so often partial abatement of the odour nuisance is achieved at that stage . |
| 24 | In fact , the most pressing need , which should be addressed without any further damaging procrastination , is the elimination of erroneous run-out decisions , which are so often crucial , the difference between winning and losing , enjoyment and infuriating distraction . |
| 25 | Thoughts of future depreciation are so often far from our minds in all the excitement of choosing a new car . |
| 26 | The sheer drama , so often greater offstage than on … |
| 27 | The trouble with Hilary Frome , thought Toby , was that he was so often right . |
| 28 | He had told the story so often that such a literal-minded version seemed unnecessary . |
| 29 | It also ensures that omissions are not made simply because you have dictated the letter so often that familiarity has bred contempt . |
| 30 | Everybody 's checking themselves so often that |