Example sentences of "be [adv] often [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a troublesome beast , this poetic ambiguity which we are so often taught to value more highly than the explicit . |
| 2 | Children with difficult or disadvantaged home circumstances are more often admitted to hospital and residential care than other children . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | When let out to private contractors , corruption and harsh treatment of the paupers was too often added to failure . |