Example sentences of "as [adv] often [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As so often with British policy , it is the right thing , but not enough of it — although Nigel Lawson promised in Washington that we would do more . |
| 2 | The destination — as so often with this ship — was Honduras in Central America , quite a rich source of exports to England at the time , including the mahogany which was used for so much 19th-century furniture . |
| 3 | As so often with convergent evolution , the differences are revealing as well as the similarities . |
| 4 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 5 | Howard would surely have approved of all that , but as so often in penal reform , the very advance of which the reformers were so proud led to an ironic and unforeseen development . |
| 6 | As so often in this story of my own anorexia nervosa , I find myself arriving at the same conclusion , the same central statement : it could have worked for some people , but it did n't work for me . |