Example sentences of "not often [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next level up in the management hierarchy , the overman , did not often visit a man in his work-place . |
| 2 | Nature does not often answer a call for love , until the caller is tired of calling . |
| 3 | Except when wounded or cornered , leopards will not often attack a human . |
| 4 | Lenin , who does not often get a kind word these days , was right in at least one of his prophecies . |
| 5 | The study of the discipline does not often include a study of its own academic evolution ; indeed , one suspects than an ahistorical attitude is sometimes projected by lecturers , as if the discipline had always existed in some vague Platonic sense , and could not possibly not have been there . |
| 6 | As a consequence of the difficulties of poverty in which many working-class children were raised , education did not often provide an escape route for them and many , particularly in towns like Jarrow , faced the prospect of juvenile unemployment . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't often see a guy bring another man flowers . |
| 8 | They did n't often have a chance to leave the pub together , but this afternoon she was determined to have a family outing , so as soon as the dinner-things were washed up , they had come for a walk to the Island Gardens . |
| 9 | I do n't often have a woman 's eye over it ; men do n't notice these things much . " |