Example sentences of "[adv] often [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probation officers are less often in contact with a whole school . |
| 2 | CL depends so often on rendition of a range of colours , some soft and subtle , some brilliant , that optimum reporting of CL studies in publications may demand expensive colour plates . |
| 3 | The hens moved carefully about , picking their way on their spindly yellow legs , muttering comfortably to each other and darting their heads to the ground every so often in pursuit of something delicious . |
| 4 | Occasionally , perhaps , gerontophiliac tendencies account for the disruption of an engagement or marriage through attraction of one partner to the parent of the other ; but marriages are broken far more often through infatuation with a third party of a partner 's own age group , while attraction to an in-law may equally denote a need for a surrogate mother or father irrespective of true gerontophilia . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This kind of worry is expressed more often in relation to the newer modular or semi-modular structures than the more traditional general degree which may have well-established patterns and requirements , but it nevertheless seems to be a widespread one . |
| 7 | Their guards have no training — the tendency to treat patients like animals comes more often from lack of knowledge and understanding than from deliberate cruelty . |
| 8 | Successful UUUC candidates , in contrast , would form their own party and act independently and possibly often in opposition to it . |
| 9 | All these ideas have been considered recently , with caution in Washington , sceptically by NATO commanders , most often with alarm in European capitals . |
| 10 | Such arguments are rehearsed most often in relation to children . |
| 11 | Be seen to is found quite often for instance in the sort of context alluded to by Bolinger in which one gets the impression that someone is establishing the facts : ( 67 ) Nobody had been seen to enter the house or leave it . |
| 12 | Wealth , very often on behalf of others . |
| 13 | Freud thought that there is a difference between neurotics and primitives , which is , that primitives proceed very often from thought to deed . |