Example sentences of "be [adv] often see " in BNC.

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1 By bad luck , the question of women 's emancipation has been most often seen as parallel to that of non-European races .
2 The largest 25 producers account for more than 50% of the area planted and it is their names which are most often seen on merchant 's lists .
3 Striped dolphins and Dall 's porpoise are most often seen in groups of 530 and 2–20 , respectively , but both have also been observed in numbers of around 300 .
4 Occasionally a species from the Caribbean lbes , Rocordea florida is imported , but these are less often seen than their Pacific relatives .
5 They are not often seen on the open sea except on passage .
6 The collection was formed by the late shopping-centre magnate Sir Harold ( later Lord ) Samuel who , on the advice of dealer Edward Speelman , amassed mainly small , highly finished cabinet pictures on copper or panel that were very much to the taste of eighteenth-century collectors but are not often seen in American collections : notably , five town-views by Jan van der Heyden ; a ‘ Winter Landscape with Skaters ’ by Adriaen van de Velde , and a seven-by-nine inch masterpiece by Jan Steen of a couple sleeping at a table beneath an arbour .
7 The keys of old harpsichords are indeed often seen to be hollowed ; however , what this suggests is not that Handel had been assiduously practising on it for many years , but rather that ( being at least loo years old when Hawkins saw it ) it had never had the keys replated. 19th-century scholars were intrigued by this tale , and more than a century after Handel 's death embarked on the quest to rediscover the instrument .
8 Atrophic gastritis and superficial gastritis were more often seen in the alcoholic patients , which accounted for the hypochlorhydria seen in a group of these patients .
9 In a buoyant market , with deals being done left , right and centre , chartered surveyors were too often seen as ‘ brokers ’ .
10 Even when it is , it is most often seen in terms of the size of individual instalment payments , and the length of the repayment period .
11 It is unfortunate , however , that the ‘ crisis ’ is so often seen in negative terms .
12 A stake is there to hold up the tree and not , as is so often seen , the other way round .
13 Several themes recur throughout the book , grit and courage , an inexplicable sense of insecurity , a solemnity which Gooch has cultivated almost consciously as an image , and a love of playing for his county which the author suggests is not often seen elsewhere in county cricket ( although one or two from Yorkshire might disagree ) .
14 In spite of this fairly wide range of the Hawk Anthias is not often seen .
15 Above : The Silver Scat , Selenotoca multifasciata is not often seen in shops .
16 The newt , although fairly common in English ponds , is not often seen by ordinary people because it is a shy and murky creature .
17 Secrecy can be damaging in that : ( a ) the sources of power and influence are obscured ; ( b ) public servants are not properly accountable ; ( c ) public participation is seriously hampered ; ( d ) justice is not often seen to be done ; ( e ) inefficiency and error are made more likely .
18 The Royal Bank 's own coat-of-arms , granted in 1960 , is not often seen in the Age of the Logo , but does appear on our banknotes and , more recently , made a welcome appearance on the Highline card .
19 A similar phenomenon has been observed in some patients with AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis , but a halting progression with worsening of the biliary disease is not often seen , and there are no reports of hepatic fibrosis deteriorating to cirrhosis and liver failure .
20 Fortunately for him , he is more often seen as the ‘ little boy lost ’ ( which is often just how he feels , so his suffering is considerable ) , for apart from his obvious grief and loneliness , who now will cook his meals and iron his shirts ?
21 In the heart , clinically significant cardiac amyloid with congestive heart failure is more likely in AL than in AA , because extensive amyloid interstitial infiltration in the myocardium is more often seen in AL than in AA .
22 Ian Barker , who recently completed the course at Wigan College , said the course has given him both invaluable background and new direction in what is too often seen as the poor relation of the building industry .
23 My subject — civil engineering — is very often seen as divisible into quite separate ‘ theory ’ and ‘ practice ’ elements .
24 Commissioning research on the use of deprivation indices in allocating formulas is therefore often seen as a means of arguing more effectively for a bigger share .
25 The relations between central and local government are too often seen in an oversimplified light .
26 The struggle , however , was most often seen as a defence of traditional liberties , not of ‘ liberty ’ itself .
27 Talk of the sensual , the erotic , was so often seen in relation to the female body .
28 However , the returned veteran was more often seen as the protagonist in a revenge story , typically involving drugs , crime and violence .
29 … in every way like the man , as a twin brother and companion , haunting him as his shadow , both before and after the original is dead ; and was also often seen of old to enter a Hous , by which the People knew that the Person of that Liknes wes to Visite them within a few days .
30 Earlier jazz was also often seen in terms of a ‘ defence of individualism ’ ( spontaneity self-expression , and so on ) .
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