Example sentences of "[adv] often [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a troublesome beast , this poetic ambiguity which we are so often taught to value more highly than the explicit . |
| 2 | When the philosopher-agronomists advocated new crops and new methods they were met with the excuse so often given to Cavanilles on his tour of Aragon , ‘ We do as our fathers do . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The matter of the drama continues to be eclectic as Eliot pokes beneath the glossy city surface to hidden depths of feeling , and as so often looks to Buddhism as well as Christianity . |
| 6 | Feigen has been unusually fortunate in obtaining loans from several museums , which as a group , do not often lend to dealer exhibitions . |
| 7 | Children with difficult or disadvantaged home circumstances are more often admitted to hospital and residential care than other children . |
| 8 | With a soft flavour — most often likened to almonds — Amaretto di Saronno is a delicious drink all year round . |
| 9 | The statistic most often used to measure within-group variability is the standard deviation , although there are other possibilities . |
| 10 | We were most often directed to library skills and study skills lessons in which children were being taught rather unimaginatively a range of things from the Dewey Decimal Classification to the use of the full stop ! |
| 11 | The increasing stocking density evident in Powys over the last 3 decades also explains the broadleaved woodland regeneration problem and clarifies why such woods are now often grazed to billiard table-like turf when in the more distant past grazing levels must have been low enough to allow regeneration . |
| 12 | The hardest task for his subordinates is to decide what the phrase ( now often shortened to NWO and not to be confused with the airline that used to be called Northwest Orient ) might mean . |
| 13 | We did n't often go to London in those last years . |
| 14 | Lloyd George thought very highly of him and used to quote with approval his dictum that in politics ‘ there are no friendships at the top ’ ( too often attributed to Lloyd George himself ) . |
| 15 | The unlawful theft of cars all too often leads to injury and death . |
| 16 | When let out to private contractors , corruption and harsh treatment of the paupers was too often added to failure . |