Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] often [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the enthusiasm so often expressed in favour of change produced little movement within the industry . |
| 2 | Furthermore , we should recall that in modern individuals ( and almost certainly also in the past ) internalized verbal commands and prohibitions are of the first significance in the acquisition of the superego and manifest this aspect of themselves in the auditory hallucinations of accusing and scorning voices so often found in paranoia . |
| 3 | The statistic most often used to measure within-group variability is the standard deviation , although there are other possibilities . |
| 4 | Presently the strains of Brother James 's air , ‘ The Lord 's my shepherd ’ , drifted out , soon followed by a psalm not often heard at funeral services , number CXXVII ‘ As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man ; so are the children of youth . |
| 5 | A final chance to pick up the kind of luxuries not often seen on sale nowadays . |
| 6 | Buoyant , tern-like flight not often seen on surface of water . |
| 7 | FoE reiterated its call for an immediate ban on the use of two herbicides most often found in water , atrazine and simazine . |
| 8 | The treatment of choice most often reported for adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus is surgery . |
| 9 | The other reason most often given for government ownership is that government needs a voice of its own and can not rely on the privately owned press . |
| 10 | The model most often cited by development economists is Ghana , which adopted IMF-backed reform in 1983 after its old protectionist ways stifled initiative and brought the economy to its knees . |
| 11 | Luckier fates awaited the Louis XIV Boulle marquetry console , sold to a telephone bidder under-estimate for $675,000 ( £375,000 ) ( est. $800–1.2 million ) , a small Louis XIV ormolu-mounted Boulle bureau plat around 1700–1710 , sold to Bernard Steinitz for $850,000 ( £472,200 ) ( est. $1–1.5 million ) , a simple Louis XV tulipwood marquetry table à écrire by Bernard van Risamburgh , sold to Partridge for $460,000 ( £255,500 ) ( est. $400–600,000 ) and the skeleton of a charming Louis XVI giltwood lit à la polonaise around 1780 ( est. $100–150,000 ) , a form not often seen at auction , which went to a phone bidder for $440,000 ( £244,400 ) . |
| 12 | The convention most often mistaken for logic is explicitness , which , he shows , is not the same thing at all . |
| 13 | In Britain , for the Irish entering in search of a new life , Liverpool and London stations were their gateways to the streets more often paved with misery than with gold . |
| 14 | She opened her eyes to the darkness , a darkness too often populated before sleep by those familiar , reproachful , childish faces , brown , black and white , bending over her , asking why she had deserted them when they loved her and thought that she had loved them . |