Example sentences of "often be [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lists of the so-called Anti-Reformers or Boroughmongers were set out in the radical press , and as the electors were so few and were persons of standing , their views were really known in advance and the outcome could be predicted accurately — contrary to the modern opinion polls which so often are at variance with the result . |
| 2 | Sometimes they occur in great drifts , sorted by sea currents , as shells often are on beaches today . |
| 3 | The manager had often been to Holborn , and drunk her father 's wine . |
| 4 | But they remained essential to him , perhaps because his life had so often been at stake . |
| 5 | Since political values have often been at stake in conflicts over social policy , the very character of the ideological issue has precluded a cool appraisal of all the policy options . |
| 6 | He had often been on duty at the hospital , and then Comfort and Julia would lie on long cushioned chairs on the terrace , breathing in the lemon scent of the immense magnolia that sprawled up the old red brick of the house and talking about him and about what life might be like when they all left Oxford . |
| 7 | With so many ‘ mature ’ players playing in the Whaddon strip over the years , varicose veins have often been in evidence . |
| 8 | And so I 've quite often been in Stromness and somebody said to me , how are you getting home tonight ? |
| 9 | Up till that moment Tilda , in spite of her lucid gray eyes , showing clarity beneath clarity , which challenged the nuns not to risk scandalising the innocent , had often been in disfavour . |
| 10 | Women have so often been in situations of powerlessness and dependence that any system of belief or programme of action that could count as ‘ feminist ’ must in some way see this as a central concern . |
| 11 | The settings would then be fixed , usually backed by gold foil ( Avent and Leigh 1977 ; Meeks and Holmes 1985 ) , which would most often be of garnet , but also glass , stone and shell . |
| 12 | The Investigation Checklist ( KPMG Form 822 ) and the Forecasts and Projections checklist ( KPMG Form 824 ) may often be of use in assembling background information needed for valuations . |
| 13 | Deals with investors tend to be direct in the case of large institutional holders of government stock but will often be through agency brokers in the case of personal customers . |
| 14 | Output of work at Key Stage 1 will often be through means other than writing . |
| 15 | These areas are ( i ) the organization of licensing , censorship and other similar forms of control , and the struggle against these ; ( ii ) the organization of the market , both in its aspect as a trading area whose purposes , in expansion and profit , may often be in conflict with otherwise dominant political and cultural authorities , and its aspect as a mechanism for commodities in this especially sensitive field , where inherent calculations of profit and scale may impose tensions with other conceptions of art and , at a different level , impose its own new forms of commercial controls ; and ( iii ) the uneven and changing relations between a received and always to some extent recuperated ‘ popular ’ ( largely oral ) culture and the new forms of standardized and increasingly centralized production and reproduction . |
| 16 | In size and quality , caravans range considerably from lightweight mobile vans on holiday sites to those in sometimes quite plush mobile home establishments in which prices can often be from £10,000 to £20,000 ( as much as many built-homes in the locality ) . |
| 17 | These are related , however , if the first is a matter of central belief to a person , as it often is with religion — what they spend a great deal of time and effort on , what makes them tick . |
| 18 | Certainly , if one were to divide the primary school day up into " skills and frills " sections , as it often is by teachers and others , then it is highly likely that project work would come in the " frills " section . |