Example sentences of "[adv] often [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately this complication seems to have occurred less often with increasing experience . |
| 2 | Despite this , constipating agents and dietry restriction tends to be used less often with increasing duration of follow up . |
| 3 | Mutations in codons 13 and 61 that occur much less often in large bowel tumours were not analysed in this preliminary study . |
| 4 | Salt and brackish marshes and pools , both coastal and inland , estuaries , less often by fresh water . |
| 5 | It is incredible that my challenge in tournaments so often during this time had been to make the cut . |
| 6 | As so often with convergent evolution , the differences are revealing as well as the similarities . |
| 7 | As so often with British policy , it is the right thing , but not enough of it — although Nigel Lawson promised in Washington that we would do more . |
| 8 | The destination — as so often with this ship — was Honduras in Central America , quite a rich source of exports to England at the time , including the mahogany which was used for so much 19th-century furniture . |
| 9 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 10 | So often on this project even the oldest locals interested in what I was doing had no memory , actual or handed down , of the people mentioned by JTR . |
| 11 | Howard would surely have approved of all that , but as so often in penal reform , the very advance of which the reformers were so proud led to an ironic and unforeseen development . |
| 12 | It has been suggested that the wild man , or wood-wose , who appears so often in medieval literature , is a conventional figure typifying madness and deriving from the mad king Nebuchadnezzar , who was ‘ driven away from among men , and did eat grass like an ox , and his body was wet with the dew of heaven ; till his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles , and his nails like birds claws . ’ |
| 13 | He said it was not easy to come to Cork with a favourite 's tag and play against a posse of cuemen he had grown up with and played so often in amateur competition . |
| 14 | As so often in this story of my own anorexia nervosa , I find myself arriving at the same conclusion , the same central statement : it could have worked for some people , but it did n't work for me . |
| 15 | Couples not only make love more often than at home , they also talk more often to each other . |
| 16 | On the other hand there was a divergence between staff judgements of need and the judgements of those discharged from their care , with staff opting more often for supported accommodation and the dischargees for independent living . |
| 17 | In a similar way the Desert Fathers , whose ascetical practices frequently seem to pass into the range of farce , are regarded at least with affection and more often with deep admiration , partly of course because of the delightful anecdotery that has collected around them , and is known to us through the works of writers like Helen Waddell . |
| 18 | In the 1984–88 series the intestinal type was seen more often with intestinal metaplasia ( 46 of 74 , 62.2% ) compared with the diffuse type ( 20 of 50 , 40% ) ( p=0.01 ) . |
| 19 | Wildlife will grace your garden more often with this cotinus |
| 20 | Very like Snipe , but slightly darker and heavier in flight , axillaries and under wing coverts more heavily and darkly barred ; bill shorter ; more often on drier ground . |
| 21 | This happens more often in indecent assault cases than other sex crimes . |
| 22 | These are not very common and , as previously suggested , feature more often in preparatory work than in the actual research , but they do have a place . |
| 23 | And though the wOmen 's quartet in Grimes is a quartet of voices , it is more often in three-part counterpoint because the Nieces sing in unison in the refrain . |
| 24 | It is fair to say that Bourdieu 's fields ( the scientific field , the political field , intellectual field , and so on ) are more autonomous from class interests than Althusser 's superstructures ( and indeed Althusser is quoted more often in this context by Bourdieu than Weber ) but possess less autonomy , i.e. a smaller degree of Eigengesetzlichkeit than Weber 's ‘ Lebensordnungen ’ . |
| 25 | Another 18 experienced a dramatic improvement as their previously severe disease entered a sustained quiescent phase most often after intestinal resection ( 14 patients ) , but sometimes coincident with use of immunosuppressive medications two patients ) , bowel rest one patient ) , or both ( one patient ) . |
| 26 | This criticism was expressed most often by physical science students , but it was also made by physics students ; for example |
| 27 | Researching ‘ the family ’ , usually a code for studying women , means investigating women 's social interactions with children , men , and other women ; and social methods like observations and interviews are used particularly often in this area . |
| 28 | The railway spread outwards from Britain to continental Europe , initially often with British capital , technology , and expertise . |
| 29 | Such men did not take kindly to orders and supervision , and were indeed often beyond effective control , except by the collective of their workshop . |
| 30 | Quite often at this stage , sherds will be selected for illustration in the published report , and any joins between sherds will be looked for . |