Example sentences of "[adv] often [art] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pace never slackens , even though on the night their big set-piece , the cloud swing , had to be cancelled because the performer had injured herself : not from doing what is actually one of the most dangerous of aerial tricks , but as is so often the way of circus , from doing something offstage unthinkingly , in this case , dancing . |
| 2 | Skipper Javed , so often the centre of Test scandals in the past , began the international games clashing with England 's now dethroned all-rounder Ian Botham . |
| 3 | The carelessness born of fatigue and the complacency that follows victory are so often the preconditions for disaster , and they have to be fought with great patience and total concentration . |
| 4 | As was so often the case with railway stations , these facilities were reaching their highest point at just the time when immigration — like the passenger statistics themselves — was about to take a steep downturn . |
| 5 | It is , as is so often the case in criticism of Leonard 's work , a travesty of Pope 's high standards , a supra-imposing of the critic 's personal standards not dispassionate appraisal . ) |
| 6 | Pool , so often the butt of soccer jokes , on the threshold of the First Division ? |
| 7 | The noticeboard area at Beida , so often the source of student movements , became busy after 6 April when several dazibao were posted . |
| 8 | Smells , so often the reason for disinfection , are more appropriately dealt with by improving ventilation , remedial maintenance if necessary and more effective cleaning . |
| 9 | So often the loss of self-control was the welcome prelude to a confession — a confession that was usually , in turn , a vast relief to the pent-up pressures of a tortured mind . |
| 10 | The even strength of his fingers and his robust eloquence ( James Huneker would never have found the Scherzo from the B minor Sonata ‘ as light as a harebell ’ after this ! ) and assurance are often awe-inspiring ; few young pianists have found a more direct path to musical truth , or heeded Jorge Bolet 's adage that speed is so often the enemy of excitement . |
| 11 | The writer of those lines and I enjoyed many a lunch time snack in the Hotel Vancouver cafeteria , and more often a glass of lager in the upstairs lounge . |
| 12 | In British terms that means reflecting the multifarious ways in which speech and gesture reveal or seek to conceal social status and social pretension : and in a fast-shifting , highly unrigid world like the British , status is far more often a matter of pretension than of birth . |
| 13 | At a time when so many natural phenomena remained both inexplicable and uncontrollable , and when medical knowledge was more often a force for harm than good , many individuals continued to feel a pressing need for supernatural assistance , and to seek it indiscriminately through both Christian prayers and magical charms . |
| 14 | In what has been described , we have moved from a model of a community in which neighbourly acts were performed within clearly defined limits , with reciprocal benefits looming large , to a model in which , so far as very old people are concerned , such acts are more often the product of altruism ( remembering that this does not deny gratification to the giver ) and of a more systematic attempt to offer and channel care appropriately . |
| 15 | Sometimes this success is at the expense of food production , but more often an increase in productivity is achieved across all crops . |
| 16 | Although there are a number of points of difference , some of them highly significant , between the calculation of compensation for unfair dismissal and for wrongful dismissal , there is nonetheless often a degree of overlap . |
| 17 | Promotions to abbacies and bishoprics were probably often the subject of competition between important families , and canvassing and intrigue may have taken place both locally and at court . |
| 18 | While men and women under 30 are most often the victims of crime , the impact is greatest upon those over 50 . |
| 19 | The act of suicide among younger people is indeed often an act of anger against those with whom they live , and who have failed to solve their problems . |
| 20 | There is , however , little justification , and quite often a degree of hypocrisy , in such criticisms . |
| 21 | ( vii ) The achievement of a new State transforms a national liberation movement into something quite different , necessitating quite often a change of leadership , of support groups , of style and programme . |
| 22 | Since the rate of repayment is reviewed only once annually , quite often the effect of mortgage rate rises has been delayed for some months , allowing the borrower to prepare for the increased cost . |
| 23 | The enthalpy change that occurs when one mole of solute is dissolved in a solvent to form an infinitely dilute solution is called the enthalpy of solution — or quite often the heat of solution . |
| 24 | But this is localized and too often the motivation for assistance is one-sided and temporary . |
| 25 | I would wish to emphasize that our ‘ normal ’ ‘ adjusted ’ state is too often the abdication of ecstasy , the betrayal of our true potentialities , that many of us are only too successful in acquiring a false self to adapt the false realities . |
| 26 | Does not that provide a welcome contrast with the bad old days of the 1950s , 1960s and 1970s , when all too often the construction of power stations — nuclear and conventional alike — fell years behind ? |
| 27 | Unfortunately on these occasions , all too often the prick of conscience , if it has operated at all , is instantly suppressed before it can take control , and it is this which appears to have become the normal response . |
| 28 | It might be worth having a look at that cos there 's near There 's very often a question on hardness of water . |
| 29 | This is very often a kind of prose poem where narrative is not the issue ; it develops images and phrases , for an example read Beckett 's short stories . |
| 30 | I do n't deny that very often a potential for intelligence is underdeveloped because the environment lacks sufficient stimuli ; but however much the environment is manipulated , unless the genetic material is good , there is a point beyond which such manipulation can not have an effect . ’ |