Example sentences of "[adv] often [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first two of these points are the ones which most immediately concern the teacher , together often with the third , that of exam results and assessable performance which is a priority forced upon teachers by society as a whole . |
| 2 | The relationship between land use and cattle stealing helps explain why the crime was carried out relatively less often in the central highlands in the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | Perhaps because such a high proportion of bank or other loans are devoted to car-buying , they turned up less often than other types of credit as a means of financing things bought from shops — much less often in the case of shop chains . |
| 4 | The finding that ‘ ee ’ occurred significantly less often in the gead condition than in the other two conditions shows that it is not only the single grapheme that is used as a unit in reading non-words aloud . |
| 5 | It is sited beside and underneath the Al-Rasheed hotel , which explains why some nondescript buildings around the hotel — the conference centre for instance , were hit so often during the war . |
| 6 | Over very long distances , the signal in the system above would weaken and booster amplifiers ( called repeaters ) would be needed very so often along the line . |
| 7 | It is therefore necessary to pick up the optical signals , convert them into electrical signals , amplify them using a repeater and re-convert them into optical signals every so often along the way . |
| 8 | Conversation , so he told me , as so often at the Mansions , was about Rose Macaulay . |
| 9 | His lordship had called , indeed bellowed , so often over the last six months that George had come to expect little else . |
| 10 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 11 | erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ? |
| 12 | As so often with the Government , the illusion and not the reality is what really counts . |
| 13 | I usually bump into him every so often on the stairs , in one of the upstairs rooms or in the garden , but I have not seen him in some time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And the player so often on the periphery of affairs with England is now the hub of a revitalised Liverpool . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Anna , knowing nothing of this , and battling to come to terms with the violence of her surroundings , while The Friends seemed to expand and achieve by the month , succumbed every so often to the demon envy . |
| 18 | Why did Angelica Kauffman return so often to the image of Penelope , wife of Ulysses mother of Telemachus , who was abandoned by her husband when he went off to fight the Trojan Wars , and had to fend off a pack of vulture-like suitors who wanted to take over Ulysses ' estate , wealth and derelict wife . |
| 19 | The word ‘ sweet ’ is used so often throughout the scene that it loses all worth , in the same way that a Chaucerian epithet such as ‘ fresshe ’ comes to mean almost the opposite when continually applied to January 's wife May in The Merchant 's Tale . |
| 20 | It will be a choice between the politics of envy , as advocated so often by the Conservative party , and the ethics of community . |
| 21 | Well-organised Cambridge tried to kill the game and Boro were naive when caught out so often by the offside trap . |
| 22 | Swore like a trooper under his breath as the bus swayed through the leafy lanes , saying he could no longer make out the landmarks , that he knew such and such a tree or house was in such and such a place , he 'd passed it so often in the bus , but now could barely see it . |
| 23 | The 19 year old Spaniard has always had the weapons but , so often in the past , has used them sparingly in her pursuit of greatness . |
| 24 | The flash-point came , as so often in the past , in the car industry , with Ford workers , members of the TGWU , deciding to smash the 5 per cent guideline with calls for a minimum pay rise of £20 a week and associated fringe benefits . |
| 25 | Nor , in truth , had they done so often in the past . |
| 26 | ‘ The truth , about which we spoke so often in the past few years , has been reaffirmed once again — where there is a delay in dealing with overripe problems , excesses are inevitable , ’ Gorbachev said in the Tass transcript of his speech . |
| 27 | The TCSC was sceptical about the Treasury 's forecast of inflation dropping to 3 per cent by 1992 given that official predictions have been wrong so often in the past . |
| 28 | When speaking to Scots about Scotland , Mr Major 's words carried a conviction and a passion lacking so often in the Tory campaign . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The registers of Giovanni Scriba , the first of the series , show us this world already in being ; but as so often in the economic history of the age , light dawns as we say farewell . |