Example sentences of "[adv] often [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps because such a high proportion of bank or other loans are devoted to car-buying , they turned up less often than other types of credit as a means of financing things bought from shops — much less often in the case of shop chains . |
| 2 | It seems only apposite that he should hover so often on the edge of the ‘ pathetic fallacy ’ , as for instance in the assault on Caradhras , where Aragorn and Boromir insist the wind has ‘ fell voices ’ and that stone-slips are aimed , or on the bridge at Khazad-dûm , where Gandalf is ‘ like a wizened tree ’ , but the Balrog a mixture of fire and shadow , a ‘ flame of Udûn ’ — checked only for a moment by Boromir 's horn . |
| 3 | And the player so often on the periphery of affairs with England is now the hub of a revitalised Liverpool . |
| 4 | Why did Angelica Kauffman return so often to the image of Penelope , wife of Ulysses mother of Telemachus , who was abandoned by her husband when he went off to fight the Trojan Wars , and had to fend off a pack of vulture-like suitors who wanted to take over Ulysses ' estate , wealth and derelict wife . |
| 5 | How terrible it was to have those easy phrases , trotted out so often in the course of gossip , or heart-to-hearts , or in magazine articles , or even court cases , become so real . |
| 6 | ( Incidentally , note that as so often in the analysis of deixis , these various examples involve the overlapping organizations of the five basic categories of deixis : thus greetings usually involve temporal , person and discourse deixis ; demonstratives both space and person ; vocatives both person and social deixis ; and so on . ) |
| 7 | Thus , although the equation is changing in favour of the regulators , the skilled operator with nominee accounts and bank secrecy laws in off-shore centres is still often beyond the reach of the authorities . |
| 8 | Marslen-Wilson ( 1975 ) found that fluent restorations occurred far more often during the shadowing of normal prose than when the mispronounced word was semantically or syntactically incongruent with respect to the sentence containing it . |
| 9 | They must then be taught to choose to produce wanted behaviour more often through the use of rewards and punishments . |
| 10 | Neither aprisiones nor hospitia are documented before the Carolingian period , and they occur more often in the reign of Charles the Bald than previously . |
| 11 | Where care is provided , it is far more often in the form of advice than of assistance with physical care . |
| 12 | This did not take on , but from the time of the Pioneers some red-figure artists sometimes draw in outline on a white slip , most often on the interior of a cup where there was not the problem of the receding surface . |
| 13 | I have heard it most often during the period from February to April and have always associated it with mating . |
| 14 | One suspects , however , that the lack of appropriate provision stems most often from the inadequacy of resources , about which parents can do little . |
| 15 | The dazzling , witty and terrifyingly chic MADAME ARIANE DONDOIS brings her superb taste to play most often in the arena of serious antiques . |
| 16 | Most often in the open in hard weather , feeding on unfrozen patches . |
| 17 | Linguistic and sexual terminology come together most often in the context of the Saussurian theorization of binary opposition , illustrated by an excerpt from a paper given at a conference on linguistics : |
| 18 | When such means failed the extended family gave support most often in the form of food or of caring for some children of the family until a crisis was over , or permanently if it was sustained . |
| 19 | As with the air waybill , the consignor of the sea waybill is issued a document , most often in the form of a receipt of shipment , which in some jurisdictions , such as Great Britain is neither a document of title nor a negotiable undertaking . |
| 20 | Some planning clauses require the tenant to appeal against the refusal of planning permission if the landlord so requires , quite often at the cost of the tenant . |
| 21 | It has made me wonder quite often about the calling of shepherd of men . |
| 22 | These people construct their own hierarchies of taste , quite often in the hope of intoxicating us or invading our sensibilities with a violent shock of colour . |
| 23 | Too often she had seen her mother frowning with anxiety as she divided the contents of her father 's wage packet up between the jars labelled ‘ Rent ’ and ‘ Electric ’ and ‘ Coal Money ’ , too often at the end of the week she had watched her count out the pennies for a pound of sausages only to be able to buy just a half-pound , two for her father , one each for Paula and Sally , and only the scrapings of the pan to go with her own potatoes . |
| 24 | It happens in the musical world that conductors sometimes rely on their performers to do their work for them ; it is currently happening rather too often in the field of ‘ early music ’ . |
| 25 | Precisely the same has happened all too often in the relationship between the theologian and the philosopher . |
| 26 | As a general model , then , it might be fair to say that in early capitalism the bourgeoisie is very often on the side of the development of civil society , and in later capitalism it is often opposed to such development . |
| 27 | Since its spending provisions are very often at the heart of a Bill , the debate on a resolution might tend to repeat a second reading debate on the principle of the Bill . |
| 28 | Loss , whether recent or long ago , is very often at the bottom of our discomfiture with ourselves . |
| 29 | And this is why as I ca n't remember if we mentioned it now , maybe did , maybe or someone else did , that the ego carries out repression very often at the demand of the superego , so the superego has its standards , its barriers , its sense of conscience , its threat of guilt , and the ego , to satisfy those demands , to avoid guilt , carries out repression at its , at its command , or at its insistence . |
| 30 | They are very often at the front of the class for the sole use of the teacher , whilst the class sits passively . |