Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] often [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a major survey of special needs provision in middle and secondary schools , Clunies-Ross and Wimhurst ( 1983 ) showed that children with special needs were most often withdrawn from science and modern languages in order to find the time to give them extra help with literacy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Talk of the sensual , the erotic , was so often seen in relation to the female body . |
| 6 | Big Allen , the highest peak of the foinland , which was so often veiled in mist or appeared as a blurred blue shape , this morning showed every crevice and crag on its slopes , every wind-bent bilberry , every clump of ling . |
| 7 | Skipper showed a pleasing boldness in his jumping , which was still often done from trot . |
| 8 | With the development of Imperial architecture and the need for large public gatherings in baths and basilicas the space was more often vaulted with brick and concrete . |
| 9 | When let out to private contractors , corruption and harsh treatment of the paupers was too often added to failure . |