Example sentences of "[adv] often [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less often seen on wing than Golden Eagle . |
| 2 | In all honesty , the history of commercial rose-growing is a trail of trumpet-blowing and publicity , so often followed by silence as the subjects ran out of steam and fell by the wayside . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Big Allen , the highest peak of the foinland , which was so often veiled in mist or appeared as a blurred blue shape , this morning showed every crevice and crag on its slopes , every wind-bent bilberry , every clump of ling . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | With the development of Imperial architecture and the need for large public gatherings in baths and basilicas the space was more often vaulted with brick and concrete . |
| 8 | Children with difficult or disadvantaged home circumstances are more often admitted to hospital and residential care than other children . |
| 9 | 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and secondary schools , Clunies-Ross and Wimhurst ( 1983 ) showed that children with special needs were most often withdrawn from science and modern languages in order to find the time to give them extra help with literacy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , official statistics suggest that mobility has not recently been conspicuously higher in Japan than in other industrialized countries , especially since access to good education has too often depended on wealth and background . |
| 12 | While first-cousins are often favoured as marriage partners , a distinction is very often made between parallel and cross-cousins . |