Example sentences of "[adv] often [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Crown and its officials certainly had to face major issues , but they seldom thought in terms of policy : indeed the word was less often used in the sense of a plan or strategy than to suggest , at its highest , shrewd dealing , and , at its lowest , a disreputable cunning . |
| 2 | Situated on Brighton Seafront close to the famous West Pier , the Brighton Hotel offers elegance , luxury and comfort , coupled with the friendly service so often lacking in the larger establishment . |
| 3 | In the government 's view it is wrong that planning decisions about land use should so often result in the realizing of unearned increments by the owners of the land to which they apply , and that desirable development should be frustrated by owners withholding their land in the hope of higher prices . |
| 4 | The ecclesiasticism that so often gets in the way of the gospel ; the temporal concerns of church politics that take up so much time ; the fussiness of much of church life ; our obsession with ‘ churchy ’ things — all these and more are aspects of additions that are really secondary concerns . |
| 5 | They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions . |
| 6 | Although the Apache is remarkably docile its accident record in the USA is not among the best of the light twins , possibly because the type is so often employed in the training role . |
| 7 | Even mention of ‘ cut and sew ’ never evoked the groans I so often hear in the UK , as most of the knitters realise , as I do , the value of this technique . |
| 8 | If you believe that Hollis was a Russian agent then the Crabb affair fits neatly into the jigsaw but , as so often happens in the intelligence world , the same set of facts can be tinkered and tailored with so as to fit any preconceived belief . |
| 9 | As so often happens in the last years , his remaining family and oldest friends became of most importance to him . |
| 10 | ‘ I wish I had red hair , ’ Samantha said to her mother , inspecting herself as she so often did in the tarnished mirror surrounded with gilded laurel leaves and intertwined cherubs . |
| 11 | Jakobson uses a culinary example in his discussion of the question which nicely complements the vessel-liquid image which is so often implied in the form-content distinction . |
| 12 | In such circumstances education becomes much more than the dead-end routine it so often seems in the industrialized world . |
| 13 | This is what has so often happened in the past ; and although the Chancellor has made it clear that low inflation remains his goal , now that the country is out of the ERM there is not a great deal that he can do to prevent it . |
| 14 | This is what has so often happened in the past ; and though the Chancellor has made it clear that low inflation remains his goal , now that the country is out of the ERM there is not a great deal that he can do to prevent it . |
| 15 | This down-to-earth good sense has not been sufficiently stressed in the past ; there is a normality , a sanity , a state of psychological health which is so often missing in the more obviously ‘ Romantic ’ of Wordsworth 's contemporaries . |
| 16 | These two discourses of eugenics and feminism , seemingly distinct yet so often linked in the political language of many early twentieth-century feminists , had clearly influenced Outram 's educational thinking . |
| 17 | In the latter , fines for simply chatting with workmates contrast vividly with the drinking customs so often described in the artisan trades . |
| 18 | Atrophic gastritis and superficial gastritis were more often seen in the alcoholic patients , which accounted for the hypochlorhydria seen in a group of these patients . |
| 19 | Such questions are more often asked in the interview situation than in a postal questionnaire . |
| 20 | Propagated contractions were more often recorded in the proximal oesophagus ( p<0.05 ) , whereas non-propagated contractions occurred about twice as often in the distal as in the proximal oesophagus ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 21 | I think it is the critical statements , rather than the words of praise , that are more often uttered in the hearing of girls . |
| 22 | There appear to be two distinct types of herpes simplex virus — type I ( herpes labialis or facialis ) which is found predominantly above the neck and type II ( herpes genitalis ) more often found in the genital and anal areas . |
| 23 | As we saw in Section 5.3 particularly , the establishment of a genuinely across-the-curriculum study skills programme is one possibility , and further infrastructural changes were also often considered in the wake of the project . |
| 24 | Stream of consciousness and a variety of other devices are used to transcribe an inner mental world at the expense of the external social experience most often favoured in the conventional , realistic forms of earlier fiction . |
| 25 | The colour of the polyps also varies considerably ; brown , green and pale blue are the most often seen in the UK , though red , pink and purple specimens are also found , as are striped forms , the stripes radiating from the mouth |
| 26 | The adult worms are most often found in the small bronchi and their eggs , containing the first stage larvae , hatch soon after being passed in the faeces ( Fig. 26 ) . |
| 27 | It comes with prostration , after several days and is most often found in patients of poor vitality , rather broken down weak constitutions who are subject to catarrhal illnesses ; most often needed in the elderly and in young infants . |
| 28 | At the other , encoders wishing to ensure that their texts can be used for the widest range of applications , will want provide a level of detailed documentation approximating to the kind most often supplied in the form of a manual . |
| 29 | One is contained in the sentence which is most often mocked in the Preface to ‘ Paradise Lost ’ : 'A schoolboy who reads a page of Milton by chance , for the first time , and then looks up and says ‘ By Gum ’ , not in the least knowing how the thing has worked , but only that new strength and width and brightness and zest have transformed his world , is nearer to the truth [ than the critics ] . ’ |
| 30 | Interestingly this figure is consistent with that most often encountered in the literature in this area where usually between 70 per cent to 80 per cent of employers are favourable to young workers . |