Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] often [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the kind of tragedy that so often called for sympathy — a momentary sympathy and thrill of horror , mixed with shamefaced satisfaction that it had happened to someone else -before one passed on to less disturbing news . |
| 2 | Afterwards Sharon 's stepfather appealed for a concerted campaign to end the spate of car thefts that so often ended in tragedy … |
| 3 | It is this constitutive role of religious belief that so often comes to mind when the words science and religion are juxtaposed ; for the explanatory pretensions of the world 's religions have made them vulnerable to scientific advance . |
| 4 | Generally the commonest medium-sized brown owl ; predominantly nocturnal and most often detected in daytime hunched up in its tree roost , being mobbed by smaller birds , when can be distinguished from Barn Owl by dark brown face and underparts and from Long-eared and Short-eared Owls ( p. 179 ) by black eyes and lack of ear-tufts . |
| 5 | This probably has its roots established over many years and very often built on myth . |
| 6 | As so often happens with VIP ; s on board , the weather suddenly changed to high summer for our passage down the west coast , and as we cleared Rhu Rheidh with the dramatic back drop of the Wester Ross mountains astern , and a calm blue sea ahead , the world seemed a different place . |
| 7 | As so often happens in North West cricket , they are following a family tradition . |
| 8 | His success depended , as so often happens in research , on entirely fortuitous events , of the kind which sometimes contribute as much as careful planning to the attainment of desired objectives . |
| 9 | The matter of the drama continues to be eclectic as Eliot pokes beneath the glossy city surface to hidden depths of feeling , and as so often looks to Buddhism as well as Christianity . |
| 10 | Crédits mobiliers were the rage , at least until the Rothschilds won their battle with the Pereires and — as also often happens in boom periods — some operators ventured a little too far across the always hazy frontier between business optimism and fraud . |