Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [adv] often " in BNC.

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1 Until now the greeting I most often heard had been G'Tag or Morgen .
2 Within perception you quite often get erm a local processing going on simult apparently simultaneously with a global processing and the two sort of mutually influence each other .
3 In the Community context it is often referred to as ‘ codification ’ , although in practice it most often corresponds to what is called ‘ consolidation ’ in the British context .
4 The plight of abused ( physically , emotionally and sexually ) children is a tragic and sensitive story which apparently often goes undetected because the mother , fearing reprisals or removal of the children , does not report abuse by her husband/partner or visiting relative ( who often is the perpetrator ) ; in many cases having suffered violence herself from him ( Jones , 1988 ) .
5 As I say , it is the chorus which too often fails to rise to the occasion .
6 They have been placed at the head of this chapter only because it is the extreme case which so often bothers the social worker in consideration of what he or she might be involved in if the sexual side of the work develops .
7 Whilst Roadburg may underestimate the size of the middle-class and female components of the British soccer crowd , he is correct to emphasise that the terraces are chiefly made up of working-class males and that , of this group , it is the youth segment which most often engages in violence .
8 That sentence from the Red Consultative Document provides the clue to the major misunderstanding which so often links those with very different views .
9 Erm this table is actually a folding table of a type which very often appears in Flemish and German pictures .
10 Whatever the reason , repeated tests have shown that the inclusion of sufficient dietary fibre in meals prevents the excessive output of insulin which so often leads to hunger and snack-eating on diets in which the carbohydrates are processed and refined .
11 Chamomilla child , unlike the Pulsatilla child who most often evokes one 's sympathy .
12 This is a this is a question we very often get asked , why do they sell a thirteen amp fuse with a thirteen amp plug if it only wants a five amp in ?
13 I felt my eyelids begin to droop and the warmth of the room slowly turning into a soft buzz in my head , the sort of sound which so often precedes the sudden slip into sleep itself .
14 It is this same group who most often remember grandparents as providing significant direct financial aid either in their lifetimes or in their wills .
15 In such circumstances education becomes much more than the dead-end routine it so often seems in the industrialized world .
16 The reined-in impatience which so often emanated from Ian was absent , Theodora 's gravitas mitigated and Julia 's social nervousness sedated .
17 It was less worry than the lethargy which so often seemed to overcome him .
18 Though violence sometimes occurs at American sporting contests , it is seldom of a comparable scale and intensity to the football hooliganism which so often takes place in Britain , West Germany , the Netherlands and Latin America ( Guttmann , 1986 ; Smith , 1983 ) .
19 More opportunities for individual and small group Work in the infant schools would make it more likely that children will achieve fluency in reading early enough to prevent the rejection of learning which so often accompa-nies failure as children move on into the older primary classes .
20 ‘ Moles ’ was a phrase we very often used about the Treasury and it 's been used many times since .
21 At the moment of climax she quite often addressed him as Derek .
22 At the other end of the scale they quite often roll just beneath the surface , and if the water is choppy you will not know it is happening .
23 FOR people in Sarajevo , the music they most often hear is a continual bombastic symphony of shell , mortar and sniper fire .
24 When we consider the regulation that will be imposed and the rights of consumers in Northern Ireland , my hon. Friend will find that consumers will be much better protected and safeguarded under privatisation than if they had been left to continue with a publicly owned monopoly which too often had a life of its own and was not subject to the outside pressures that consumers have a right to bring to bear .
25 Indeed the kind of situation which so often arose elsewhere seems more akin to the ‘ restricted ’ literacy that characterised pre-alphabetic scripts .
26 I shall remember him for his magnificent work in the West Riding through many years , and for his naughty and teasing sense of humour which so often cheered us up in the dismal surroundings of the Hemsworth Division and places like that , and which one realised hid a most sensitive and affectionate personality .
27 The paradox of diversion is that whenever we want to divert something it proves very hard to do so ; but when we do not want to create a diversion we very often end up by diverting more than we wanted .
28 And of course what very often happens these days , with such a high level of unemployment , is if it 's a fine that 's decided upon — and I think something like in three-quarters of the cases dealt with by Magistrates do end up with a fine — that it has to be scaled down because of the erm poor circumstance , poor financial circumstance in which the defendant is .
29 His breathing is laboured in that heavy way which so often heralds the end , and as you grip his hand to let him know that he is not alone , you try to love him as the Lord himself would do .
30 Was that all it would take to banish the feeling of gloom which so often half-incapacitated her ?
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