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 | The image of the drunken and ill-disciplined soldier , a figure who aroused an emotional response , more often that of fear than that of respect , was nothing new in this age . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Draught cattle owned by households were more often subject to theft . |
| 5 | In paragraph 2.2 he reminds everybody that in his first report ’ the state of policing in Derbyshire was described as mixed but all too often one of deterioration in infrastructure and morale . ' |
| 6 | The style for information giving is too often confused with information seeking . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Far too often those in authority expect others to obey and so use formal and even terse language when penning memos . |
| 9 | All too often those in need of such remedies are either fobbed off with sympathetic noises or given drugs that are inappropriate and toxic . |
| 10 | The profits have been in public relations for a long time but too often those in charge have refused to invest some measure of it in capital equipment that would improve client services and the daily life of their workers . |
| 11 | 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 . |