Example sentences of "[adv] often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plight of abused ( physically , emotionally and sexually ) children is a tragic and sensitive story which apparently often goes undetected because the mother , fearing reprisals or removal of the children , does not report abuse by her husband/partner or visiting relative ( who often is the perpetrator ) ; in many cases having suffered violence herself from him ( Jones , 1988 ) . |
| 2 | Kings sometimes instructed or allowed churchmen to draft and write these documents , and Cnut apparently often did so . |
| 3 | Pheromones are the reason why women who live or work together often find that their periods coincide . |
| 4 | While carrying out research for my book , Our Treacherous Hearts : Why Women Let Men Get Their Way ( Faber & Faber , £14.99 ) , I found that men are not only often let off the hook by women , but are actively ‘ idealised ’ by them . |
| 5 | There is a sense in which the European context makes possible what has hitherto often seemed desirable to many but impossible of achievement . |
| 6 | In working out Exercises A and 13 , answers such as ¼ and ⅜etc. often occurred . |
| 7 | That is , since the various parts of the bureaucracy fail to generate innovations , other parts are less often faced with the need to respond to changes . |
| 8 | Standards are basically bush forms that have been budded , or less often grafted , on to single stems anything from 2–2½ft ( 0.6–0.8m ) high ( half-standard ) to 3½ft ( 1m ) , ( 1.2m ) , 5ft ( 1.5m ) and sometimes even a little higher than that . |
| 9 | For a librarian to ‘ screen ’ stock in this way is usually seen as standard library procedure in a library for children , but is less often accepted in relation to adult reading . |
| 10 | Clare was less often caned than Lilian , as she was more intelligent . |
| 11 | ( Boys , probably because they ca n't have babies , less often arouse conscious sexual fears in their parents ; but there are often sexual elements in father-son rivalry . ) |
| 12 | What is less often conceded or , if conceded , considered — Bersani being a significant exception — is that if gender is socially constituted so too is desire . |
| 13 | But what is less often pointed out is that Anselm in The Proslogion also defines God as ‘ greater than can be thought to exist ’ . |
| 14 | What is less often recognized is that it was distinctly innovatory , marking important breaks with earlier theories of female sexuality and helping to generate an intellectual climate favourable to regulationism . |
| 15 | What is less often recognized is the emergence of a new type of moral discourse . |
| 16 | Everyone knows that that book is a critique of ‘ logocentrism ’ ; what is less often recalled is that the terms of the critique with which it opens announce the design of focusing attention on logocentrism 's ethnocentrism ’ which , Derrida suggests , is ‘ nothing but the most original and powerful ethnocentrism , in the process of imposing itself upon the world ’ . |
| 17 | This is much less often commented upon , probably because he mentions it in a rather throwaway fashion , losing it in a section almost entirely devoted to the argument that noblemen should receive the same punishments as people of the lower orders . |
| 18 | It was a remedy frequently recommended but less often applied . |
| 19 | Thus , we would suggest that these second types of explanation for the differences in the rate of crime between men and women — that female crime exists to a much greater extent than is indicated by the statistics but is just less often recorded — can not explain the enormous sex differences in recorded rates of crime . |
| 20 | Occasionally a species from the Caribbean lbes , Rocordea florida is imported , but these are less often seen than their Pacific relatives . |
| 21 | Less often seen on wing than Golden Eagle . |
| 22 | If her figures are also valid for the geological research theses of other countries , then it would appear that geological theses are less often cited than are those on chemistry , as reported by Bottle . |
| 23 | While it does seem to be a little less pernicious , in that male respondents less often say that they want to marry only a woman who is a virgin than they used to , it is still alive and well in that women are more often criticized than men for engaging in non-marital sexual activity . |
| 24 | The United States is now less often portrayed as so single-minded or Britain as so uniquely far-sighted in the creation of that alliance . |
| 25 | An equally crucial ( though much less often discussed ) area in which errors can arise is that relating to the interview itself — to the content of the schedule and the measurement and/or classification of the resulting data . |
| 26 | Table 4.6 shows that worry and sadness were expressed by nearly half our samples of dementia sufferers at both time periods ; loneliness was less often admitted , though one in five to a quarter of the samples did admit it ; while saying that they were not very or not at all happy was the least common sentiment , this being expressed by approximately only one in six of the samples . |
| 27 | But while Lacanian critics frequently invoke this passage , they less often consider Freud 's extraordinary and provocative remarks in this same essay as to why he thinks desire and satisfaction have become incommensurable . |
| 28 | Larger doses of gentamicin given less often result in higher peak concentrations of 10–15 mg/l and low trough concentrations . |
| 29 | Ultrasound scanning may show thickening of the bile ducts and less often provides evidence of bile duct stricturing and/or dilatation . |
| 30 | Less often utters a ‘ tchik ’ , weaker and more sibilant than Great Spotted 's ( p. 195 ) . |