Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] often [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In daily practice as well as in the recent studies Dieulafoy lesion is diagnosed most often by endoscopy . |
| 2 | He found that positive feedback was predictably given most often for accuracy and quantity of reading . |
| 3 | The relevant comment I have heard most often at NCT meetings is that on-one minds a child displaying anti-social behaviour as long as we can see mum is doing something about it ! |
| 4 | He repeated the phrases he had heard so often on TV but Ralph sneered . |
| 5 | It is the word we have heard so often in Genesis . |
| 6 | But it was a shock to hear the exact tone of bitter resentment that I had heard so often in England and felt so often myself . |
| 7 | Erm , I , I , I did n't say the question lightly it 's just that I think it needs watching , and I wondered how it was , because I 've heard so often in the past , that people have so many lines of enquiries , but the money goes , and you know , it 's all marvellous , and I 'm not suggesting |
| 8 | She felt it was not just chance that they met so often near her home , yet he only talked about what was happening in other parts of the world , never of people they knew or of his feelings towards her . |
| 9 | Infas said 10pc of West Germans and 4pc in the formerly Communist East agreed wholeheartedly with the statement : ‘ It is the Jews ’ own fault that they have been persecuted so often in their history . ’ |
| 10 | Such incidents have now been reported sufficiently often in langurs and in lions , for example , to invalidate an early explanation attributing them to a high population density . |
| 11 | Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department . |
| 12 | Two forces were at work : the curriculum requirement of central government changed sufficiently often for critics to claim that important changes in original policy were repeatedly taking place . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had no answer — save that British scientists had been reorganised so often in recent years that it was time for stability . |
| 15 | Historically drug users are known to suffer more often from bacterial infections such as pneumonia , and this observation agrees with our results and those from a previous study of our cohort . |
| 16 | Only one symptom , a persistent cough , was reported more often for those who had not been in a residential home — 24 per cent compared with 10 per cent of those who had spent some time in such a home . |
| 17 | Skin abscesses due to injecting were reported more often by drug users who seroconverted than by controls but the selection of seroconverters who had probably used infected injecting equipment may have biased this result . |
| 18 | Other symptoms ( tremor , headache , and ‘ others ’ ) occurred more often with salmeterol 200 µg ( five , four , and 16 subjects respectively ) than with salmeterol 100 µg ( one , two , 10 ) , salmeterol 50 µg ( one , two , six ) , and placebo ( one , two , eight ) , though the differences were not significant . |
| 19 | And I had a feeling that a certain exter with spiky reptilian skin and several eyes was also appearing too often in my wake . |
| 20 | This happens most often in the damp winter months , and often vanishes in summer . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | While it occurs most often in adolescence , the age of onset can range from pre-adolescence to middle age . |
| 23 | Perhaps the only facts that seem to be emerging on this topic are the following two : first , slavery is rare among hunters and gatherers , and , secondly , it occurs most often among pastoralists [ Goody , 1980 ] . |
| 24 | This race has been seen most often in Chichester and Pagham Harbours ( 14 records comprising 67 birds ) , at Cuckmere Haven ( four records comprising 17 birds ) and at Pett Level ( four records comprising 24 birds ) . |
| 25 | Deformities of the cervical spine are seen most often in patients with rheumatoid arthritis of more than 10 years ' duration . |
| 26 | Nor , in truth , had they done so often in the past . |
| 27 | Sadly , I can not share your optimistic conclusion , which implies we will always muddle through together as we have done so often in the past . |
| 28 | Up at five and sleeping badly of late , Luke kept his mind off Perdita and himself awake on the long straight roads , as he had done so often in the past , by concentrating on a particular horse . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've seen this done so often in the films but to be arrested myself … |
| 30 | He said it was not easy to come to Cork with a favourite 's tag and play against a posse of cuemen he had grown up with and played so often in amateur competition . |