Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] often [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the enthusiasm so often expressed in favour of change produced little movement within the industry . |
| 2 | The statistic most often used to measure within-group variability is the standard deviation , although there are other possibilities . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Buoyant , tern-like flight not often seen on surface of water . |
| 5 | The treatment of choice most often reported for adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus is surgery . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Luckier fates awaited the Louis XIV Boulle marquetry console , sold to a telephone bidder under-estimate for $675,000 ( £375,000 ) ( est. $800–1.2 million ) , a small Louis XIV ormolu-mounted Boulle bureau plat around 1700–1710 , sold to Bernard Steinitz for $850,000 ( £472,200 ) ( est. $1–1.5 million ) , a simple Louis XV tulipwood marquetry table à écrire by Bernard van Risamburgh , sold to Partridge for $460,000 ( £255,500 ) ( est. $400–600,000 ) and the skeleton of a charming Louis XVI giltwood lit à la polonaise around 1780 ( est. $100–150,000 ) , a form not often seen at auction , which went to a phone bidder for $440,000 ( £244,400 ) . |
| 9 | The convention most often mistaken for logic is explicitness , which , he shows , is not the same thing at all . |
| 10 | She opened her eyes to the darkness , a darkness too often populated before sleep by those familiar , reproachful , childish faces , brown , black and white , bending over her , asking why she had deserted them when they loved her and thought that she had loved them . |