Example sentences of "[be] often to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plant fossils are often to be found in particular beds , reflecting conditions of deposition that were just right for their preservation . |
| 2 | This is one explanation why stars are often to be found in groups of twos or threes . |
| 3 | Many grounds also employ Alsatian dogs around the perimeter of the pitch , and police spotters are often to be found with binoculars and two-way radios in the TV camera gantries below the roofs of the main stands . |
| 4 | The origins are often to be found by watching and listening to what goes on in the Soccer Specials — the trains and coaches which fans hire to transport themselves to away games . |
| 5 | They are often to be seen engaged in passionate argument and vociferous debate . |
| 6 | Organizations which are selling products that are the target of health or conservationist lobbies are often to be found sponsoring activities such as sporting events and animal welfare campaigns . |
| 7 | In general they offer assistance with all types of problem but are often to be found in the areas of urban development and rehousing which are likely to expose housing , welfare benefit and educational problems . |
| 8 | In small and incomplete orchestras , however , such combinations as the following are often to be found : |
| 9 | They were often to be found operating shops and farms . |
| 10 | Powerful and famous gentlemen became regular visitors to the house — including , I remember , figures such as Lord Daniels , Professor Maynard Keynes , and Mr H. G. Wells , the renowned author , as well as others who , because they came ‘ off the record ’ , I should not name here — and they and his lordship were often to be found locked in discussion for hours on end . |
| 11 | Boys were often to be found on their knees before this icon , praying to be made into pop stars and for release from a lifetime as a motor-mechanic , or a clerk in an insurance firm , or a junior architect . |
| 12 | The rumours were fanned , I suppose , by the fact that we were often to be seen together at professional and social engagements away from the studios . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , if Sister 's sanctioned it , it ca n't be to Melrose , where that dishy registrar 's often to be seen . ’ |
| 14 | Sophie is often to be heard on BBC Radio . |
| 15 | He has achieved much fame as a chamber music player ( with the Coull String Quartet , for example ) and is often to be heard giving solo recitals on BBC Radio 3 . |
| 16 | Also , the methods practised in today 's abattoirs , where a conveyor-belt approach to the slaughter of animals is carried out at maximum speed , is often to the detriment of hygiene procedures . |
| 17 | Facing the title-page is often to be found the ‘ frontispiece ’ , devoted to a portrait or some interesting part of the subject matter . |
| 18 | Findings and reasons need not be lengthy ; indeed brevity clearly indicating them is often to be preferred to a lengthy and possibly ambiguous record . |
| 19 | ? This bird is often to be seen near mouths . |
| 20 | The drawing suggests the type of investment situation that is often to be found in high-technology investment . |
| 21 | Parents on the streets of the town know there is something badly wrong , that the issue is control of their children , and it is often to the school that they look . |
| 22 | As mayor , he launched a campaign to clean up Athens , and was often to be seen — much to the irritation of the government — riding refuse lorries through the city in the early morning . |
| 23 | This was often to be a disturbing element in many of the subsequent trials when children 's uncorroborated evidence sent many to prison and to the gallows . |
| 24 | He was often to be met in Whitehall committees in 1944 . |
| 25 | For a week or so in February , a pair of longtailed tits was often to be seen in and beneath the shrubs near the nutbag . |
| 26 | One of the results of this was that I was often to be found across the road at the Edwards ' place . |
| 27 | As was often to be the case , action by the French in lands adjoining the duchy of Aquitaine provoked the Plantagenet regime to do likewise . |
| 28 | Spurred on by Bernard 's example , Edgar Hughes , Gwenny 's son , was often to be seen with pick or shovel in hand , mixing cement , laying concrete floors , building walls or fitting windows . |
| 29 | Laura was often to be seen with a heavyweight nineteenth-century French novel in her hands , but this pursuit held little appeal for Bernard . |
| 30 | Charles was often to be invoked in the 1860s : Napoleon III 's choice of Compiègne for one of his favourite imperial palaces recalled the French nation 's ninth-century " founder " . |