Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] often [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A common sight throughout the rural areas of South India , occurring sometimes at the entrance to a village or town , near Siva temples and shrines , in the corner of a temple courtyard , near a water tank or stream ( water being the mother of life ) or most often under Peepul or Neem trees , is a cluster of erect stone slabs planted in the ground rising to about 3 feet in height on the face of which appear effigies of the Cobra or Nag , In relation to the afore-mentioned trees , generally ‘ married ’ to each other , they are symbolic of ‘ life ’ , with the Serpent representing their spirit or life energy . |
| 2 | Available either as different width fittings , such as with New Balance , or more often with variable lacing patterns . |
| 3 | Detailed cross-tabulations of our main survey results ( not included in Appendix I ) showed that people who said they worried about money fairly often or very often on average had a markedly higher credit commitment than people who said they did not worry about money . |
| 4 | At the beginning of the nineteenth century you get people like Jane Austen writing , writing about heroines with minds of their own , women who can actually think and talk and do all sorts of things that very often in literature women had n't been conceptualised as doing before . |
| 5 | But they sent it first and most often to Faramir , who would no doubt have been a better choice . |
| 6 | Successful UUUC candidates , in contrast , would form their own party and act independently and possibly often in opposition to it . |
| 7 | These , mostly one-day , workshops have occasionally been with a whole school staff ( primary , secondary and special schools ) and more often with teachers of particular types — probationers , English teachers , science teachers , senior teachers in charge of probationers , deputies and heads on DES management courses , primary heads in one county and one LEA 's entire Inspectorate . |
| 8 | As company-car drivers tend to travel farther and more often on motorways , they consider themselves more experienced and skilful than private motorists , according to a recent survey by Gallup for General Accident , an insurance company . |
| 9 | Ethnic group status was mentioned earlier in the case of negroes than it was in the case of white people , and gender role was mentioned earlier in the test and more often by women than by men . |
| 10 | His performance was suffering and could be found more and more often in saloon bars , pouring down whisky , and pouring out his life history to some new-found friend . |
| 11 | AGE-SPECIFIC RATES — The frequency of demographic events ( live births , deaths , marriages , etc. ) that occurred during one year in a population defined by age ( usually one or five-year age groups ) and also often by sex relative to the size of population of the given age or age group ( and sex ) relative to the mid-year size of the same population ( expressed per 1,000 population ) . |
| 12 | Thus in the two and one-half decades prior to World War I a whole set of modernist institutions of culture were forged in German civil society , often in opposition to the state , and unusually often by Jews . |
| 13 | The skills and disciplines to deliver each of these elements is available in Scotland , but will only be effectively utilised if they are part of our overall tourism strategy under one board and not , as now , with a variety of organisations working in partial isolation , and indeed often in competition . |
| 14 | Language may not only be ill-adapted to communication ( as Professor Chomsky shows us in chapter 3 ) , it 's also in principle , and quite often in practice , unnecessary . |
| 15 | But for weeks you know it was parked there all day and very often at nighttime . |
| 16 | And very often at night , if I do n't lock up that first door they 're through there |
| 17 | So in order to have something that enables you to keep records of two or three hundred customers , and then of course to be able to print out some sort of lists or invoices at the end of it , you would need to pay , probably even now , a couple of thousand pounds , and very often of course more . |
| 18 | This is the best known part of Lochaber and indeed probably the best known part of the Highlands , familiar to most visitors to Scotland , featured in ballads and too often in newspaper headlines , a Mecca for adventurers and everywhere displaying spectacular scenery on a grand scale . |
| 19 | The texts are sometimes by Albert himself , but most often by Simon Dach , another member of the Kürbs-Hütte circle . |
| 20 | Sometimes accompanied by a guitar but more often by mandolins , the singer usually has a tremulous voice powerful enough not to need microphones . |
| 21 | Elaine and Ethel and Nell and Mary — the Girls , as the two nans called them , fondly sometimes , but more often in despair of their ever growing up . |
| 22 | Gyford ( 1985b , p. 27 ) goes so far as to suggest that local government reorganization was one of the reasons for moves to the left outside London , where older councillors were replaced not by the hoped for technocrats waiting in the wings , but instead often by representatives of Labour 's new left . |
| 23 | Because very often on courses we find that people have been sort of nominated to go on courses , and quite honestly they do n't actually want to be there and they 're looking at their watch and as soon as they can get away that , that 's better . |
| 24 | In my experience they are generally rare fossils in the Palaeozoic , but as so often with echinoderms there are localities where large numbers of specimens can be recovered from a bedding plane or two . |
| 25 | Although they are common today starfish are not generally common fossils , but as so often with echinoderms , they seem to be local in occurrence . |
| 26 | The rationale is interesting , and as so often with Justinian it has a moralistic flavour : ‘ because it is quite ridiculous and unreasonable that an object which someone does not absolutely possess among his property he should be able to transfer to others or charge as a hypothec or pledge or manumit and deceive the hopes of others . ’ |
| 27 | As so often in sociology , this rather alarming-sounding process is really very simple , though difficult to do well . |
| 28 | As so often in finance , the next step is to make things more complicated . |
| 29 | The hero is vindicated as a character completely realised , uncontradictory even when ( as so often in Stanley Weyman , for instance ) he steps aside from the path of correct behaviour . |
| 30 | The difficulty , as so often in advertising , is to know when . |