Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] often [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spiritual congress of this kind is , in fact , found all over the world and throughout history — as the biographies of famous Christian and other mystics confirm and occurs more often than is generally supposed in our own contemporary Western world . |
| 2 | One particular article written in July issue 1967 called ‘ A Case of the Emotional Painter ’ by Dimitri Dejanikus I take out and re-read more often than the others . |
| 3 | Both plays tell the universal and timeless tale of family relationships and how , when supposedly they are a place of union , harmony , love and protection , they are in fact in reality a source of discord and suffering more often than not . |
| 4 | People fell sick and died more often than they committed offences against others ; in the overwhelming majority of cases lineages collected contributions , and larger entities were not involved . |
| 5 | Play the field and score as often as possible . |
| 6 | I tried to hide my fear , and laughed and smiled as often as I could . |
| 7 | When she said that she only wanted £10 for looking after little Doris , and that her mother could come and visit as often as she liked , a deal was struck and a tearful Evalina waved goodbye to Mrs Stanfield and her small daughter . |
| 8 | MND kills three people a day in the UK and strikes more often than better known diseases such as multiple sclerosis . |
| 9 | These remarks of Chomsky have often been quoted , and adduced more often than not , almost gleefully at times , as evidence in support of the view that linguistics has no relevance to language teaching and that therefore applied linguistics , as it relates to pedagogy at least , is vacuous . |