Example sentences of "[adv] often [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is , since the various parts of the bureaucracy fail to generate innovations , other parts are less often faced with the need to respond to changes . |
| 2 | For a librarian to ‘ screen ’ stock in this way is usually seen as standard library procedure in a library for children , but is less often accepted in relation to adult reading . |
| 3 | This is much less often commented upon , probably because he mentions it in a rather throwaway fashion , losing it in a section almost entirely devoted to the argument that noblemen should receive the same punishments as people of the lower orders . |
| 4 | Less often seen on wing than Golden Eagle . |
| 5 | Oesophagostomum infections in the pig are less often associated with clinical disease , but are responsible for poor productivity . |
| 6 | This is much less often included within social policy . |
| 7 | The Crown and its officials certainly had to face major issues , but they seldom thought in terms of policy : indeed the word was less often used in the sense of a plan or strategy than to suggest , at its highest , shrewd dealing , and , at its lowest , a disreputable cunning . |
| 8 | It has also been shown that more sensitive judgements can be obtained from children when the power figure — so often represented by the adult — is removed ( Lloyd and Donaldson , 1976 ) . |
| 9 | Between them they expressed the opposing feelings so often displayed by young children in the peak age of attachment : on the one hand , the protest and fury about being left — cries of rage — and then a sullen refusal to acknowledge and come to the mother ; on the other hand , the desperate yearning for the loved one and a need to cling and not let go . |
| 10 | Perhaps the record companies should give us more live recordings , when such noise-free and moving performances can nowadays be taped successfully , and where at least there is continuity of expression , so often lost in piecemeal studio productions . |
| 11 | He remembered Hause Point , he remembered the abyss he had so often fallen into . |
| 12 | It 's a troublesome beast , this poetic ambiguity which we are so often taught to value more highly than the explicit . |
| 13 | Even the papacy under John XXII , who is so often contrasted as the strong man to Edward 's weakling , gained little if any significant advantage to the detriment of the king . |
| 14 | This section looks back further into Christian tradition and examines the concept of faith , particularly in relation to the word which it is so often contrasted to , ‘ reason ’ , in order to identify more clearly the stance adopted by the ‘ no meaning ’ theist . |
| 15 | However , this analysis also fails to explain why even the reading aloud of single function words ( where there is no question of stress patterns in a sentence ) is so often impaired in Broca 's aphasia . |
| 16 | In all honesty , the history of commercial rose-growing is a trail of trumpet-blowing and publicity , so often followed by silence as the subjects ran out of steam and fell by the wayside . |
| 17 | What about the ‘ 30% drop in the standard of living ’ so often referred to ? |
| 18 | perhaps that 's why Bushmills Whiskey is so often referred to as ‘ the gargle ’ . |
| 19 | This tall and handsome man , not so many years older than himself — he must have been a mere boy when McAllister was conceived — could only be by his manner , and his resemblance to her , McAllister 's formidable father , so often referred to . |
| 20 | So , this was Dr Neil , so often referred to , thought Jared Tunstall , in his turn . |
| 21 | But the enthusiasm so often expressed in favour of change produced little movement within the industry . |
| 22 | They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions . |
| 23 | At its most basic , that vital component is to confront all three problems together : simple , even self-evident , and yet so often ignored in a construction climate where the all-powerful big developers tend to be more interested in low-cost employment than low-cost housing and both central and local government treat each problem in not-so-splendid isolation . |
| 24 | The surface construction which realizes ( 21 ) is that seen in ( 22 ) , although it is more common to find the serial order of the second and third elements reversed ; this does not change their relationships in terms of intensional qualification : ( 22 ) It is curious that the verb and the adjective are so often separated in surface structure ; the reason is perhaps that the noun phrase object is " pulled " into the position immediately following the verb because , in the vast majority of transitive verb phrases , that is where the object is found . |
| 25 | From Africa it was noted in one or two cases , that some visitors who came from extremely distressing and confined situations found it hard to offer to groups the ‘ hopeful and inspiring ’ messages so often hoped for and expected . |
| 26 | Although the Apache is remarkably docile its accident record in the USA is not among the best of the light twins , possibly because the type is so often employed in the training role . |
| 27 | He believes that practice in , for instance , mirror exercises , would over a period of time develop these personal traits , so often neglected by a traditional curriculum . |
| 28 | This is a stimulating and rewarding read , providing insight into why and how a writer operates , as well as creating interest in Scottish and Irish poetry that is so often neglected by the English establishment . |
| 29 | That is why the surface to weight and volume ratio , so often neglected in discussions of animal biology , is important . |
| 30 | The vehement anti-US feeling in Nicaragua ( so often cited as the latest Communist ‘ gain ’ in Latin America ) has as much to do with the history of US involvement in the country ( not to mention its current support for counter-revolutionary activity ) as it does with any Marxist ‘ indoctrination ’ . |