Example sentences of "[adv] often [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the east Midlands ash trees were planted along the hedges , less often the elm , usually spaced out at wide intervals . |
| 2 | This was less often the case under the NBC . |
| 3 | Similarly , women are not beyond attraction to a young boy , although it may probably be said that this is less often the case . |
| 4 | Essentially , occupational pension schemes are designed — by men with male ‘ family wage-earners ’ and male middle-class career patterns in mind , so not only do they exclude the majority of part-time workers , but they tend to assume that earnings peak in the final years of working life , which is much less often the case for women than for men . |
| 5 | She looked the sort of girl who is so often a trademark of California — a girl who could dance all night , yet play tennis or golf , ride or swim the next day without the slightest effort . |
| 6 | So often a person 's hands , twisting a tissue , smoothing a garment , will say more about inner tension than any words . |
| 7 | Every so often a rabbit would make a desperate , lung-bursting bid for freedom , only to provide an easy target for the twelve-bores . |
| 8 | This concern is so often a feature of social service intervention ( O'Hagan , 1986 ) . |
| 9 | Fantasies of being poisoned , so often a feature we carry into adult life from the inevitable conflicts of infancy , are the most common , although pollution offers a reality base for our fears . |
| 10 | Spaniards remain insouciant about their currency ( so often a country 's virility symbol ) partly because , during Franco 's dictatorship , the state-owned press used to spend half its time explaining why the latest devaluation was a good thing . |
| 11 | Even the most casual visitor can not fail to notice the quality of homesteads , the increased personal incomes , the efficiency and comfort of transport systems and the pride in culture and heritage , which is so often a reflection of economic security . |
| 12 | You do n't need to be a programmer ; there 's no code to write , and you do n't even have to adopt the programmer 's mindset that is so often a prerequisite for building advanced database applications . |
| 13 | But while as host her father can make a speech or toast to his new son-in-law , it would be a bit immodest for him to sing the praises of his own daughter , so often a friend of the family is chosen to make a speech and toast to both bride and groom , particularly if the father is going to speak later . |
| 14 | Abrams argued that traditional neighbourliness will not survive and that its passing is not to be deplored , because it was so often a reaction to adverse social conditions . |
| 15 | Once more , such a situation is not necessarily incestuous but since love and sexual partnership are so often a matter of emotional dependence it is often hard to differentiate it from a quasi-marital partnership . |
| 16 | With four minutes remaining until half time McCoy , so often a match-winner and making his second appearance after a prolonged lay-off with a groin injury , darted down the left flank , crossed and Ferris with a hurtling header of power beat the hapless Eachus . |
| 17 | Every so often a mongrel dog would run from a mud-brick farmhouse and race the train furiously . |
| 18 | The pace never slackens , even though on the night their big set-piece , the cloud swing , had to be cancelled because the performer had injured herself : not from doing what is actually one of the most dangerous of aerial tricks , but as is so often the way of circus , from doing something offstage unthinkingly , in this case , dancing . |
| 19 | There seem to be an extraordinary number of people on the Council , which makes it unwieldy in my view , but that is so often the way with professional organisations of similar nature . |
| 20 | Continuing what is so often the crux of the Queen 's and Nimzo Indian defences ; the struggle for e4. 9 … |
| 21 | Skipper Javed , so often the centre of Test scandals in the past , began the international games clashing with England 's now dethroned all-rounder Ian Botham . |
| 22 | Every so often the male will dig a rutting pit in the earth and wallow in it , spreading his goaty odour around . |
| 23 | Every so often the bird readjusts its position by shuffling its wings or tail , stirring up the ants as it does so . |
| 24 | Sometimes it is this which is the patient 's most obvious symptom : comprehension of speech is very good and spontaneous speech can be well-articulated , grammatical and fluent , except that every so often the patient stops speaking because he simply can not find the word he wants to say . |
| 25 | Yes , cos they usually all water underneath there and that used to be pumped out , every so often the engine room would pump all that out and to heat any water up the cabins there used to be a , a small pump what used to pump the fresh water into the boiler and I used to have a a piece of er copper off that and just turn the steam on a little bit put it into a bucket of cold water and then instead of driving the pump that 'd go into the , the er bucket and heat the water and boil it . |
| 26 | I bear in mind also that this is an interim matter and interim orders are not lightly interfered with because of the temporary nature of those orders and because so often the evidence is provisional . |
| 27 | A suitable level of abstraction confers enormous benefits in devising simple and powerful documents ( but so often the abstraction only feels ‘ 90% correct ’ , leaving the remaining 10% maddeningly awkward and inelegant ) . |
| 28 | They occur so often the press simply refers to them as ‘ lock up deaths ’ . |
| 29 | I mean he 'd he 'd use so often the experience of the people who were listening , so when a went down to , they all knew what he was talking about . |
| 30 | LAST WEEK the Seasick Summit , this week the Strasbourg summit , which saw Mrs Thatcher , so often the scourge of Europe , being polite and conciliatory , eliciting applause from the other 11 members of the EC . |