Example sentences of "[adv] often [prep] [art] past " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 19 year old Spaniard has always had the weapons but , so often in the past , has used them sparingly in her pursuit of greatness . |
| 2 | The flash-point came , as so often in the past , in the car industry , with Ford workers , members of the TGWU , deciding to smash the 5 per cent guideline with calls for a minimum pay rise of £20 a week and associated fringe benefits . |
| 3 | Nor , in truth , had they done so often in the past . |
| 4 | The TCSC was sceptical about the Treasury 's forecast of inflation dropping to 3 per cent by 1992 given that official predictions have been wrong so often in the past . |
| 5 | Sadly , I can not share your optimistic conclusion , which implies we will always muddle through together as we have done so often in the past . |
| 6 | As so often in the past , Our Lady blessed us with fine weather so that were able to hold our group procession on Wednesday morning , carrying her statue along the holy mile to the Shrine , singing hymns and reciting the Rosary . |
| 7 | Up at five and sleeping badly of late , Luke kept his mind off Perdita and himself awake on the long straight roads , as he had done so often in the past , by concentrating on a particular horse . |
| 8 | Time alone will tell whether these initiatives will significantly add to the drive towards improved VFM in central government , or , as so often in the past , will in the end have little effect . |
| 9 | In this way , as so often in the past , even in the throes of revolution and civil war Siberia once more demonstrated the intimate and inextricable connection between its own internal fortunes , the sufferings and achievements of its people and the historical development of Russia as a whole . |
| 10 | It is your land , Creggan , it is yours … ’ and she spoke to him gently as so often in the past he had spoken to her . |
| 11 | Although Newby and his colleagues have demonstrated the dogged hold of traditional rural society on the levers of power , the changes foreseen by Pahl and Thorns , and documented by Ambrose , Connell , Radford and Pacione , may be only the foretaste of a much greater change in rural society , if the development of rural communities in California is a guide to the future as it has been so often in the past . |
| 12 | Nor should we any longer ignore change in the changing world : We should grasp the opportunities offered now , because if action is delayed circumstances can soon turn against us , as they have so often in the past . |
| 13 | ‘ I have promised that so often in the past , and it has never answered yet ! ’ |
| 14 | ’ As so often in the past , our Government are stuck in the defensive mud . |
| 15 | AS so often in the past , a major sporting event is set to give Northern Ireland a morale boost at just the right time . |
| 16 | But when the end comes it may well , as so often in the past , be bloody , both for her and her party . |
| 17 | Erm , I , I , I did n't say the question lightly it 's just that I think it needs watching , and I wondered how it was , because I 've heard so often in the past , that people have so many lines of enquiries , but the money goes , and you know , it 's all marvellous , and I 'm not suggesting |
| 18 | They 've played here so often in the past they feel they know the place intimately . |
| 19 | I will certainly see the Minister next week to appeal the case , but having done so , so often in the past I am not terribly hopeful , ’ she said . |
| 20 | The campaign has been given additional clout this weekend , with referees under instruction to dismiss instantly anyone guilty of head-high tackles on or off the ball , and not to send them to the sin-bin where they have gone too often in the past . |
| 21 | Too often in the past , schools/industry work has suffered from an inability to present value for money indicators and this we suggest is one of the strengths of the TPS . |
| 22 | Too often in the past , he said , politicians had been bamboozled by specialists into believing that the problems were so great that the answer was to set up bodies like the UGC and let them make the decisions . |
| 23 | Too often in the past , when changes have been made , managers have been the last to know . |
| 24 | Opinion polls suggested a Conservative win , but they had been wrong too often in the past to inspire confidence . |
| 25 | Sheffield United have been trapped by the candid camera too often in the past and Bassett thinks the prying lens is wrong in all sorts of ways . |
| 26 | It was the sort of mistake he had made too often in the past and accounted for him standing on the brink of a lonely middle age . |
| 27 | Too often in the past there has been an over-reliance on the traditional overdraft facilities in preference to term loans and equity finance , even though the latter may be more appropriate . |
| 28 | I certainly hope that every executive agency will apply for a charter mark , which will be seen as a clear reward to those in public service who provide customer satisfaction , which all too often in the past has been sadly missing . |
| 29 | That would need the full , undivided and unambiguous support of every decent person in Northern Ireland , and the support of the Dublin Government , who have equivocated too often in the past . |
| 30 | It makes a change that the burden of more want is put on the central government instead of local authorities , because too often in the past , central government has said , in many issues , oh , we think you should have that , but the responsibility for paying for it comes from the local authority . |