Example sentences of "[be] [adv] often [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have to be suspended from battens and are most often made from pre-finished , slotted insulation board , polystyrene or fibreglass . |
| 2 | Concepts and rules are most often taught by definition and description , and whilst this can be successful , given a good communication technique , it has the disadvantage of failing to produce generalisation . |
| 3 | The largest 25 producers account for more than 50% of the area planted and it is their names which are most often seen on merchant 's lists . |
| 4 | Designs on the screen are most often knitted from bottom to top , so looking for colours as they appear in the design from bottom to top and left to right is an accurate way of assessing where colours are brought into the work and their order . |
| 5 | They are most often found on drawer divans . |
| 6 | This is not simply a matter of those aspects of women 's sexual lives that are so often cited in evidence as disqualifying women from running the affairs of nations , or even from running a small business : menstruation and premenstrual tension ; conception , pregnancy and childbirth ; lactation and child-care . |
| 7 | The surface construction which realizes ( 21 ) is that seen in ( 22 ) , although it is more common to find the serial order of the second and third elements reversed ; this does not change their relationships in terms of intensional qualification : ( 22 ) It is curious that the verb and the adjective are so often separated in surface structure ; the reason is perhaps that the noun phrase object is " pulled " into the position immediately following the verb because , in the vast majority of transitive verb phrases , that is where the object is found . |
| 8 | It 's a troublesome beast , this poetic ambiguity which we are so often taught to value more highly than the explicit . |
| 9 | Is the Secretary of State aware that any measures taken to increase car security will be welcome in Northern Ireland , where stolen vehicles are so often used in terrorist murders and other such crimes ? |
| 10 | They are then disagreeably surprised when the resentments and even despair which are so often concealed by silence break out in angry and violent rebellion . |
| 11 | ‘ The most blameworthy acts are so often absolved by success that the boundary between what is permitted and what is prohibited , what is just and what is unjust , has nothing fixed about it , but seems susceptible to almost arbitrary change by individuals . ’ |
| 12 | Soils which are water soluble are so often mixed with water insoluble soils that they are not readily dissolved by water on its own . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , distinguished musicians might be pleased to tackle the challenge of simplicity required by a church with few musical resources , and congregations are not often taken into account in commissioned music . |
| 14 | I might agree in terms of lowland farming where farms are more often controlled by investment groups than by single families , but hill farming has always been , and still is , a hard and often heart-breaking as well as back-breaking job . |
| 15 | ( Plasmas are more often used for polymer synthesis and for surface treatments such as metal nitriding ) . |
| 16 | Children with difficult or disadvantaged home circumstances are more often admitted to hospital and residential care than other children . |
| 17 | Vector chain coding techniques ( e.g. Freeman , 1961 ) , which code six or eight directions of strokes ( see chapter 2 for more details ) are also often used for pattern recognition . |
| 18 | The increasing stocking density evident in Powys over the last 3 decades also explains the broadleaved woodland regeneration problem and clarifies why such woods are now often grazed to billiard table-like turf when in the more distant past grazing levels must have been low enough to allow regeneration . |
| 19 | In a major survey of special needs provision in middle and secondary schools , Clunies-Ross and Wimhurst ( 1983 ) showed that children with special needs were most often withdrawn from science and modern languages in order to find the time to give them extra help with literacy . |
| 20 | Moreover , it was here that peasant incomes were most often supplemented by handicraft production making them less directly dependent upon the vagaries of the harvest . |
| 21 | We were most often directed to library skills and study skills lessons in which children were being taught rather unimaginatively a range of things from the Dewey Decimal Classification to the use of the full stop ! |
| 22 | Emigrant workers , regardless of ethnicity , were more often accused of property crime , while some localities near the south-western coast produced a large proportion of violent offenders . |
| 23 | The word is most often heard in response to an order to do something : fetch firewood , haul water , etc . |
| 24 | This method is most often used by market researchers , but is not unknown among sociologists . |
| 25 | This remedy is most often needed in chest complaints and gastric or bowel disorders . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In practice it is difficult to comply with the added condition that the company be employee controlled in each year of assessment in which interest is paid , so this relief is not often used in management buy-outs . |
| 28 | With new acts , a brief biography is also often included by way of introduction . |
| 29 | In these cases some psychiatrists resort to the description ‘ schizoaffective ’ which , although itself an old term , is now often used in recognition of the fact that the traditional categories of schizophrenia and affective psychosis really only represent varieties of insanity as they occur in their pure forms . |
| 30 | Although mostly not accepting Lombroso 's explanation of it , they were virtually unanimous in their opinion that genius is indeed often accompanied by madness , even allowing for cases that could be ascribed to gross disease of the nervous system . |