Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] so often " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foucault identifies three reasons : first of all the ever-increasing importance of technology , secondly the place of rationalism in the optimism attached to the notion of ‘ revolution ’ — as well as in the despotism that so often followed its realization — and thirdly : |
| 2 | It was the kind of tragedy that so often called for sympathy — a momentary sympathy and thrill of horror , mixed with shamefaced satisfaction that it had happened to someone else -before one passed on to less disturbing news . |
| 3 | Thus , the red tape that so often seems to characterize bureaucracies need not be a manifestation of bureaucrats ' love for due process . |
| 4 | Having the fair skin that so often accompanied red hair , she was usually more careful . |
| 5 | It was addressed to THE FRIED EGG OF ROCK'N'ROLL and written in the scrawly childlike handwriting that so often accompanied humorous dispatches from the house of Morrissey . |
| 6 | I wanted to see her smile , hear the little chuckle that so often bubbled from her as we spoke , and just watch her move about . |
| 7 | On the spur of the moment as so often before , Charles made a decision . |
| 8 | Was I hearing him right or had I missed the point as so often happened ? |
| 9 | Christians in particular have trouble with this part of the grief response because so often it seems that Christians are not meant to be angry — especially when the feeling is commonly directed towards God personally , as it were : ‘ I try to live a good life and see what He has let happen … |
| 10 | It is this constitutive role of religious belief that so often comes to mind when the words science and religion are juxtaposed ; for the explanatory pretensions of the world 's religions have made them vulnerable to scientific advance . |
| 11 | Although not a political animal she saw the need to speak up for the Africans ; articulate on their behalf when so often they were not given opportunity to speak for themselves . |
| 12 | Relatives have to cope with mental illness that so often changes the personality of their loved one . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Right to Know Bill , which I am introducing in the House of Commons , would lift the blanket of official secrecy that so often keeps us in the dark . |
| 15 | Shaw 's wit and good humour are at their most engaging in this play , his analysis of language and class characteristically acute , and there is little of the wilful perversity that so often mars his drama . |
| 16 | If conventionalism were so single-mindedly practised in a particular jurisdiction and so often announced and confirmed by public institutions that people were thereby entitled to rely on that style of adjudication , of course it would be unfair for some judge suddenly to abandon it . |
| 17 | The ecclesiasticism that so often gets in the way of the gospel ; the temporal concerns of church politics that take up so much time ; the fussiness of much of church life ; our obsession with ‘ churchy ’ things — all these and more are aspects of additions that are really secondary concerns . |
| 18 | There now ensues the nagging doubt that so often accompanies the crux of the climb ; it 's all very well getting this far , but until those crucial moves are made it could all still come to nought . |
| 19 | My bookshelf is sagging under the weight of all my The Artist magazines , all in order of date and so often taken out to peruse back numbers . |