Example sentences of "[adv] often use [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Culture is so often used to justify nationalism today perhaps because people are a little embarrassed to give the more traditional grounds for believing in the existence of nations : the idea that nations are characterized by common biological descent , ethnic origin or race . |
| 2 | The violence of the language used by the chronicler of St Albans shows his hatred of the Forest system , which was so often used to extort money from the monasteries . |
| 3 | They are also often used to peddle influence . |
| 4 | It is also often used to pay for the preliminary work involved in making applications for civil and criminal legal aid . |
| 5 | The passive of hear is also often used to present an occurrence as an attested fact : ( 70 ) This term was also used by the cowboy in the sense of a human showin " fight , as one cowboy was heard to say , he arches his back like a mule in a hailstorm . |
| 6 | Masturbation was most often used to demonstrate how the transgression of divine law inevitably brought down the wrath of God : ‘ For he that soweth his flesh , shall of the flesh reap corruption . ’ |
| 7 | Local bus is most often used to improve graphics performance . |
| 8 | An acronym much-prized among the new Irish on the easternseaboard of the US , Biffo is most often used to describe a gauche new arrival from the motherland , as in : ‘ do n't mind him , he 's only a BIFFO ’ . |
| 9 | Was most often used to describe the original IBM PC , but is now more widely used to describe any computer . |
| 10 | Despite the enormity of these changes , and the social , economic , and political transformation of the societies within which these changes have taken place , the concepts most often used to justify the existence , and role , of the press — and latterly , the media — today still retain significant elements of 19th century ( and sometimes earlier ) political thought . |