Example sentences of "often [conj] [not/n't] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The choice of method of digitizing depends more often than not on the level of funding available . |
| 2 | Large examples are known , however , more often than not on the fringes of the main occupied areas , as at Ashton , Baldock , Bath , Irchester and Water Newton . |
| 3 | Because the winning of seats under the STV depends more often than not on the transfer of votes from one candidate to another of the same patty , it is particularly important that they should campaign unanimously . |
| 4 | And when this happy moment arrived , it was crowned with legitimacy , because like many tribal societies the public school was a gerontocracy-an important fact obscured more often than not in the literature by concentration on the oligarchic aspect of the power exercised by favoured groups of senior boys : prefects , athletes , bloods , in slightly differing proportions according to the slightly differing character of the individual schools , but all essentially distinguished by seniority . |
| 5 | And yet it is a paradox of the period that change came into country life as often as not through the women . |
| 6 | But the Bratianu family abided as often as not by the principles of its imported Western liberalism as its inherited clannishness . |
| 7 | Go , for example , to a meeting of the European Space Agency and the place will be crawling with European technical journalists with only a few desultory Brits , as often as not from the show-biz pages . |