Example sentences of "[adv] often [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is , since the various parts of the bureaucracy fail to generate innovations , other parts are less often faced with the need to respond to changes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It has also been shown that more sensitive judgements can be obtained from children when the power figure — so often represented by the adult — is removed ( Lloyd and Donaldson , 1976 ) . |
| 4 | At its most basic , that vital component is to confront all three problems together : simple , even self-evident , and yet so often ignored in a construction climate where the all-powerful big developers tend to be more interested in low-cost employment than low-cost housing and both central and local government treat each problem in not-so-splendid isolation . |
| 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 | It is significant that recent government policies have sought to give parents more power and influence in school — to elevate parenthood and , by giving parents ' views more weight , counter the claim to exclusiveness so often made by the teacher . |
| 8 | His response , echoing what he had so often done on the battlefield , was first to sit tight and then to try to turn an apparently negative situation to his advantage . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Thus it would seem that the ‘ dawn of civilisation ’ , so often quoted in a context suggesting that it represents a fairly finite occurrence taking a relatively short space of time , did , in all probability cover a very long time indeed , perhaps many thousands of years . |
| 12 | In 1936 the Football Association found it necessary to issue a memorandum on rough play , in an attempt to stamp out excessive violence and the ‘ professional foul ’ which is so often identified as the hallmark of the debased traditions of sportsmanship in postwar football . |
| 13 | In the latter , fines for simply chatting with workmates contrast vividly with the drinking customs so often described in the artisan trades . |
| 14 | Perhaps the undramatic cosiness so often depicted on the screen is only a symptom of an unproductive cosiness in British film production . |
| 15 | This test , known as the " notional skilled worker test " , takes account of the complexity of technology , hence the reference to a skilled person rather than the ubiquitous " reasonable man " , so often used as a benchmark by judges . |
| 16 | We should not ignore collectivism , however , because it is so often used by the state in Japan to mobilize the support of those who have not benefited as much from the economic miracle , or by company leaders to exhort yet more effort from employees . |
| 17 | ‘ Collar ’ was thus often used as a way of asking to go outdoors , and after saying ‘ Collar ’ , the chimpanzees would often go search for them and put them around their necks while pant-hooting in anticipation . |
| 18 | Nothing snide or loaded here but enough to set a high Tory and paternalistic tone not often heard from the platform at recent Conservative conferences . |
| 19 | The Royal Bank 's own coat-of-arms , granted in 1960 , is not often seen in the Age of the Logo , but does appear on our banknotes and , more recently , made a welcome appearance on the Highline card . |
| 20 | Their damage to cereals is mainly in the spring when the young rabbits are most numerous , but they are not often credited for the plus side of their food intake . |
| 21 | A The Lunar , or Moon Wrasse , Thalassoma lunare , is a commonly-available fish , but it full potential is not often appreciated by the hobbyist . |
| 22 | However , the returned veteran was more often seen as the protagonist in a revenge story , typically involving drugs , crime and violence . |
| 23 | However , this form of individualism is more often tempered by the acknowledgement that social factors at least exert some formative influence on character , with the result that the individualist element of explanation is somewhat muted . |
| 24 | The former clinic patients with anti-social behaviour were considerably more often diagnosed by the research psychiatrists as having a sociopathic personality than were the comparison group . |
| 25 | Such questions are more often asked in the interview situation than in a postal questionnaire . |
| 26 | Although such a strategy is possible as a distinct strategy , it is more often employed as a tactic for reducing emissions as part of the air quality management strategy . |
| 27 | I think it is the critical statements , rather than the words of praise , that are more often uttered in the hearing of girls . |
| 28 | What has changed for the stockman is more often connected with the intensification of livestock production . |
| 29 | ‘ Making Their Mark ’ could equally well have been called a mixed exhibition ; but this is a term more often used for a show put on by an exhibiting society , that type of artists ' organisation whose importance in Europe was created by the middle classes , who sought in the eighteenth century to buy pictures rather than give commissions , as aristocratic patrons had been accustomed to do . |
| 30 | Though public relations features highly among the reasons for issuing a report , especially in Japan , duty to the environment is more often quoted as a motive in Europe and North America . |