Example sentences of "[adv] often [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our politicians are so often silent about law and order because they have nothing useful to say . |
| 2 | Early insecticides were crude , wide-spectrum contact killers , whereas modern ones are more often systemic in operation , that is , they make the crop temporarily poisonous to the pest and are increasingly specific . |
| 3 | Draught cattle owned by households were more often subject to theft . |
| 4 | The style for information giving is too often confused with information seeking . |
| 5 | It might also be argued that despite recent legislation ( some would say because of it ) parent-teacher relations are still too often fraught with fear , suspicion and misunderstanding ; that there is still too much teacher stereotyping of ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ homes and parents ; and that many parents still lack power in relation to their parental rights and responsibilities . |
| 6 | In practice , however , many investigations have shown that the assumption of uniform stress in a composite ( the Reuss assumption ) is very often close to reality , particularly when semi-crystalline polymers are concerned . |