Example sentences of "[adv] often [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relevant form is 20 pages long and contains more than 50 questions , and the 1 million people a year who labour to fill it in often fail to do so or are helped by relatives and friends ; 100,000 go to the citizens advice bureaux for help . |
| 2 | She had left him , just as she so often threatened to do . |
| 3 | It was less worry than the lethargy which so often seemed to overcome him . |
| 4 | Tom laughed , of course , and she did n't know if she was pleased or angered that he so often seemed to find her so amusing . |
| 5 | Critics point out the nit-picking thoroughness which legal authorities in the Republic so often bring to bear on extradition requests . |
| 6 | But these issues , which so often seem to dominate the debate in Scotland at party political level , are frankly of little moment to the electorate at large . |
| 7 | Of the reasons why females so often fail to make it to the very top , two are basic : some of the best women managers do not achieve their full potential in business because they do not know how exceptional they are , and others fail to get a boardroom seat because they lack the confidence . |
| 8 | What British people so often fail to understand is that the old inter-island divisions and prejudices that have always dogged Caribbean life are still present , and that a successful cricket team is the one thing that transcends this fragmentation . |
| 9 | Thus , the red tape that so often seems to characterize bureaucracies need not be a manifestation of bureaucrats ' love for due process . |
| 10 | Acceptance so often seems to rest with what we are and our place in society . |
| 11 | Well , we have our own gifts , but the presentation of food is not one of them , and since French cooks and food purveyors so often appear to lose the lightness of their touch in this respect when they leave their native land and settle abroad , one can only conclude that the special stimulant which brings these gifts into flower is in the air of France itself . |
| 12 | Ultimately , much of the debate comes down to the question of choice , the word that the Tories have so successfully colonised in rhetoric and so often failed to deliver in reality . |
| 13 | Culture is so often used to justify nationalism today perhaps because people are a little embarrassed to give the more traditional grounds for believing in the existence of nations : the idea that nations are characterized by common biological descent , ethnic origin or race . |
| 14 | The violence of the language used by the chronicler of St Albans shows his hatred of the Forest system , which was so often used to extort money from the monasteries . |
| 15 | Censorship and control are nevertheless often made to look absurd . |
| 16 | Carers who do not withdraw altogether from the labour market nevertheless often have to reduce or restrict the hours they can work . |
| 17 | The term " mass balance " is thus often taken to mean that the total mass of materials used at the beginning of ( and during ) the process must equal the total mass of products , by-products , unused reactants and solvents at the end of the process . |
| 18 | Standards of achievement exist of which the housewife is permanently aware , but which she can not often hope to reach due to the other demands on her time . |
| 19 | He was not often given to anger , which required more energy than he had to spare , but two years without life 's bounty , all for a small matter of dealing drugs to his friends , seemed little short of scandalous . |
| 20 | Demobilization was drawing to an end , and many of the suffering migrants like the Famine refugees and the wandering hordes of orphans and youths could not often afford to take a train . |
| 21 | But psychoanalysis 's focus on sexual differentiation still often manages to make female-male psychological differences seem absolute . |
| 22 | The duppy is the personification of evil and only capable of malicious acts ; at the very least its fetid breath will cause a victim to vomit violently , though it is more often asked to kill via its pernicious touch . |
| 23 | More often condemned to live than die , the characters that people the novels and stories of Milan Kundera are the architects as much as victims of their own fates . |
| 24 | The analytic versus holistic dichotomy as it applies to laterality research has been more often invoked to explain results in a post hoc fashion than it has itself been subjected to experimental scrutiny . |
| 25 | Moreover , when they do occur they are more often allowed to operate in territories ( in both a spatial and a policy sense ) in which others ' intervention is limited . |
| 26 | But Britain 's disabled athletes more often have to depend on events like this disco to pay their fare . |
| 27 | For one thing , as Jardine points out , while on the one hand the shift of wealth to the mercantile classes was leading to the break-up of the dress code , and enabling the socially mobile to appropriate , for purposes of inclusion , what were supposed to be signs of their exclusion , it was also the case that those who had ‘ arrived ’ socially often wanted to enforce the code against those who had not . |
| 28 | Religions have also often attempted to reduce all human action to stylistic embrace as an expression of cosmological pretensions . |
| 29 | Public administration also often has to satisfy equity criteria in its treatment of individual cases , especially when acting in a quasi judicial role . |
| 30 | They are also often used to peddle influence . |