Example sentences of "[adv] often [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The finding that ‘ ee ’ occurred significantly less often in the gead condition than in the other two conditions shows that it is not only the single grapheme that is used as a unit in reading non-words aloud . |
| 2 | Perhaps because such a high proportion of bank or other loans are devoted to car-buying , they turned up less often than other types of credit as a means of financing things bought from shops — much less often in the case of shop chains . |
| 3 | It is sited beside and underneath the Al-Rasheed hotel , which explains why some nondescript buildings around the hotel — the conference centre for instance , were hit so often during the war . |
| 4 | It is therefore necessary to pick up the optical signals , convert them into electrical signals , amplify them using a repeater and re-convert them into optical signals every so often along the way . |
| 5 | Over very long distances , the signal in the system above would weaken and booster amplifiers ( called repeaters ) would be needed very so often along the line . |
| 6 | As so often with the Government , the illusion and not the reality is what really counts . |
| 7 | It seems only apposite that he should hover so often on the edge of the ‘ pathetic fallacy ’ , as for instance in the assault on Caradhras , where Aragorn and Boromir insist the wind has ‘ fell voices ’ and that stone-slips are aimed , or on the bridge at Khazad-dûm , where Gandalf is ‘ like a wizened tree ’ , but the Balrog a mixture of fire and shadow , a ‘ flame of Udûn ’ — checked only for a moment by Boromir 's horn . |
| 8 | Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department . |
| 9 | And the player so often on the periphery of affairs with England is now the hub of a revitalised Liverpool . |
| 10 | Anna , knowing nothing of this , and battling to come to terms with the violence of her surroundings , while The Friends seemed to expand and achieve by the month , succumbed every so often to the demon envy . |
| 11 | Why did Angelica Kauffman return so often to the image of Penelope , wife of Ulysses mother of Telemachus , who was abandoned by her husband when he went off to fight the Trojan Wars , and had to fend off a pack of vulture-like suitors who wanted to take over Ulysses ' estate , wealth and derelict wife . |
| 12 | The word ‘ sweet ’ is used so often throughout the scene that it loses all worth , in the same way that a Chaucerian epithet such as ‘ fresshe ’ comes to mean almost the opposite when continually applied to January 's wife May in The Merchant 's Tale . |
| 13 | How terrible it was to have those easy phrases , trotted out so often in the course of gossip , or heart-to-hearts , or in magazine articles , or even court cases , become so real . |
| 14 | The 19 year old Spaniard has always had the weapons but , so often in the past , has used them sparingly in her pursuit of greatness . |
| 15 | The flash-point came , as so often in the past , in the car industry , with Ford workers , members of the TGWU , deciding to smash the 5 per cent guideline with calls for a minimum pay rise of £20 a week and associated fringe benefits . |
| 16 | Nor , in truth , had they done so often in the past . |
| 17 | The TCSC was sceptical about the Treasury 's forecast of inflation dropping to 3 per cent by 1992 given that official predictions have been wrong so often in the past . |
| 18 | Sadly , I can not share your optimistic conclusion , which implies we will always muddle through together as we have done so often in the past . |
| 19 | As so often in the past , Our Lady blessed us with fine weather so that were able to hold our group procession on Wednesday morning , carrying her statue along the holy mile to the Shrine , singing hymns and reciting the Rosary . |
| 20 | Up at five and sleeping badly of late , Luke kept his mind off Perdita and himself awake on the long straight roads , as he had done so often in the past , by concentrating on a particular horse . |
| 21 | Time alone will tell whether these initiatives will significantly add to the drive towards improved VFM in central government , or , as so often in the past , will in the end have little effect . |
| 22 | In this way , as so often in the past , even in the throes of revolution and civil war Siberia once more demonstrated the intimate and inextricable connection between its own internal fortunes , the sufferings and achievements of its people and the historical development of Russia as a whole . |
| 23 | It is your land , Creggan , it is yours … ’ and she spoke to him gently as so often in the past he had spoken to her . |
| 24 | Although Newby and his colleagues have demonstrated the dogged hold of traditional rural society on the levers of power , the changes foreseen by Pahl and Thorns , and documented by Ambrose , Connell , Radford and Pacione , may be only the foretaste of a much greater change in rural society , if the development of rural communities in California is a guide to the future as it has been so often in the past . |
| 25 | Nor should we any longer ignore change in the changing world : We should grasp the opportunities offered now , because if action is delayed circumstances can soon turn against us , as they have so often in the past . |
| 26 | ‘ I have promised that so often in the past , and it has never answered yet ! ’ |
| 27 | ’ As so often in the past , our Government are stuck in the defensive mud . |
| 28 | AS so often in the past , a major sporting event is set to give Northern Ireland a morale boost at just the right time . |
| 29 | But when the end comes it may well , as so often in the past , be bloody , both for her and her party . |
| 30 | Erm , I , I , I did n't say the question lightly it 's just that I think it needs watching , and I wondered how it was , because I 've heard so often in the past , that people have so many lines of enquiries , but the money goes , and you know , it 's all marvellous , and I 'm not suggesting |