Example sentences of "[adv] often [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surface construction which realizes ( 21 ) is that seen in ( 22 ) , although it is more common to find the serial order of the second and third elements reversed ; this does not change their relationships in terms of intensional qualification : ( 22 ) It is curious that the verb and the adjective are so often separated in surface structure ; the reason is perhaps that the noun phrase object is " pulled " into the position immediately following the verb because , in the vast majority of transitive verb phrases , that is where the object is found . |
| 2 | Plus the plain tile eave coursing so often seen with pantile roofs in the North East . |
| 3 | The Pennsylvania Central built a holiday pavilion with a high cupola at Cape May , New Jersey , while half-timbering , so often associated with holiday architecture , was the dominant feature of the Southern 's Asheville resort in North Carolina . |
| 4 | Is the Secretary of State aware that any measures taken to increase car security will be welcome in Northern Ireland , where stolen vehicles are so often used in terrorist murders and other such crimes ? |
| 5 | Presently the strains of Brother James 's air , ‘ The Lord 's my shepherd ’ , drifted out , soon followed by a psalm not often heard at funeral services , number CXXVII ‘ As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man ; so are the children of youth . |
| 6 | In practice it is difficult to comply with the added condition that the company be employee controlled in each year of assessment in which interest is paid , so this relief is not often used in management buy-outs . |
| 7 | I might agree in terms of lowland farming where farms are more often controlled by investment groups than by single families , but hill farming has always been , and still is , a hard and often heart-breaking as well as back-breaking job . |
| 8 | ( Plasmas are more often used for polymer synthesis and for surface treatments such as metal nitriding ) . |
| 9 | Emigrant workers , regardless of ethnicity , were more often accused of property crime , while some localities near the south-western coast produced a large proportion of violent offenders . |
| 10 | Vector chain coding techniques ( e.g. Freeman , 1961 ) , which code six or eight directions of strokes ( see chapter 2 for more details ) are also often used for pattern recognition . |
| 11 | The model most often cited by development economists is Ghana , which adopted IMF-backed reform in 1983 after its old protectionist ways stifled initiative and brought the economy to its knees . |
| 12 | It was the City banks with mercantile connections , rather than the West End houses used by the landed classes , who moved into this relationship — less surprising than it seems , for , as Joslin pointed out , the country banks had themselves most often grown from country merchant or manufacturing activities . |
| 13 | The other reason most often given for government ownership is that government needs a voice of its own and can not rely on the privately owned press . |
| 14 | They are most often found on drawer divans . |
| 15 | This remedy is most often needed in chest complaints and gastric or bowel disorders . |
| 16 | Moreover , it was here that peasant incomes were most often supplemented by handicraft production making them less directly dependent upon the vagaries of the harvest . |
| 17 | The statistic most often used to measure within-group variability is the standard deviation , although there are other possibilities . |
| 18 | This method is most often used by market researchers , but is not unknown among sociologists . |
| 19 | We were most often directed to library skills and study skills lessons in which children were being taught rather unimaginatively a range of things from the Dewey Decimal Classification to the use of the full stop ! |
| 20 | Linear notes are too often made by history students for the wrong reasons : |
| 21 | These include chemical allergens ( exhaust fumes and tobacco smoke among them ) , food allergens ( too often overlooked by asthma specialists ) , and physical and psychological stress . |