Example sentences of "[adv] often [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a librarian to ‘ screen ’ stock in this way is usually seen as standard library procedure in a library for children , but is less often accepted in relation to adult reading . |
| 2 | Less often seen on wing than Golden Eagle . |
| 3 | In addition , the police are requiring promoters to observe the appropriate minimum age and failure to do so often results in permission being refused . |
| 4 | It 's a troublesome beast , this poetic ambiguity which we are so often taught to value more highly than the explicit . |
| 5 | A fine guitarist in many styles , his band combines professionalism with wry humour and a straightforward honesty of purpose ( so often lacking in music of this kind ) . |
| 6 | In all honesty , the history of commercial rose-growing is a trail of trumpet-blowing and publicity , so often followed by silence as the subjects ran out of steam and fell by the wayside . |
| 7 | But the enthusiasm so often expressed in favour of change produced little movement within the industry . |
| 8 | The surface construction which realizes ( 21 ) is that seen in ( 22 ) , although it is more common to find the serial order of the second and third elements reversed ; this does not change their relationships in terms of intensional qualification : ( 22 ) It is curious that the verb and the adjective are so often separated in surface structure ; the reason is perhaps that the noun phrase object is " pulled " into the position immediately following the verb because , in the vast majority of transitive verb phrases , that is where the object is found . |
| 9 | This is not simply a matter of those aspects of women 's sexual lives that are so often cited in evidence as disqualifying women from running the affairs of nations , or even from running a small business : menstruation and premenstrual tension ; conception , pregnancy and childbirth ; lactation and child-care . |
| 10 | As so often happens with VIP ; s on board , the weather suddenly changed to high summer for our passage down the west coast , and as we cleared Rhu Rheidh with the dramatic back drop of the Wester Ross mountains astern , and a calm blue sea ahead , the world seemed a different place . |
| 11 | As so often happens in North West cricket , they are following a family tradition . |
| 12 | His success depended , as so often happens in research , on entirely fortuitous events , of the kind which sometimes contribute as much as careful planning to the attainment of desired objectives . |
| 13 | Afterwards Sharon 's stepfather appealed for a concerted campaign to end the spate of car thefts that so often ended in tragedy … |
| 14 | Big Allen , the highest peak of the foinland , which was so often veiled in mist or appeared as a blurred blue shape , this morning showed every crevice and crag on its slopes , every wind-bent bilberry , every clump of ling . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Plus the plain tile eave coursing so often seen with pantile roofs in the North East . |
| 17 | A complicating factor , so often seen in evolution , involves the ‘ cheats ’ , for there are many species with non-nutritious seed appendages but coloured so as to mimic them , e.g. species of Ormosia and Rhynchosia ( Leguminosae ) . |
| 18 | Talk of the sensual , the erotic , was so often seen in relation to the female body . |
| 19 | The Pennsylvania Central built a holiday pavilion with a high cupola at Cape May , New Jersey , while half-timbering , so often associated with holiday architecture , was the dominant feature of the Southern 's Asheville resort in North Carolina . |
| 20 | Soils which are water soluble are so often mixed with water insoluble soils that they are not readily dissolved by water on its own . |
| 21 | ‘ The most blameworthy acts are so often absolved by success that the boundary between what is permitted and what is prohibited , what is just and what is unjust , has nothing fixed about it , but seems susceptible to almost arbitrary change by individuals . ’ |
| 22 | They are then disagreeably surprised when the resentments and even despair which are so often concealed by silence break out in angry and violent rebellion . |
| 23 | At that time one of those coincidences , which so often appear in life , cropped up . |
| 24 | Few report writers invest up to a third of their time on follow through which is why their efforts so often arrive on death row ; the shelf in someone 's office where doomed reports await transfer to the waste bin or shredder . |
| 25 | Only in Kempe 's noted version on EMI ( 2/88 ) have I felt so strongly the main attributes of Lohengrin : here Robert Heger , the very epitome of the Kapellmeister manner at its best , give to the many passages of formal utterance a grandeur and intensity so often missing in studio performances , culminating in a magnificent outpouring at the final greeting to Elsa in Act 2 . |
| 26 | Furthermore , we should recall that in modern individuals ( and almost certainly also in the past ) internalized verbal commands and prohibitions are of the first significance in the acquisition of the superego and manifest this aspect of themselves in the auditory hallucinations of accusing and scorning voices so often found in paranoia . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Is the Secretary of State aware that any measures taken to increase car security will be welcome in Northern Ireland , where stolen vehicles are so often used in terrorist murders and other such crimes ? |
| 29 | With the temperament and much of the left-handed style of Larry Gomes who so often acted as foil to the dynamic stroke-makers of the early 1980s , Adams moved from 23 to 79 before running out of partners . |
| 30 | 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 . |