Example sentences of "most often [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stream of consciousness and a variety of other devices are used to transcribe an inner mental world at the expense of the external social experience most often favoured in the conventional , realistic forms of earlier fiction . |
| 2 | The colour of the polyps also varies considerably ; brown , green and pale blue are the most often seen in the UK , though red , pink and purple specimens are also found , as are striped forms , the stripes radiating from the mouth |
| 3 | The adult worms are most often found in the small bronchi and their eggs , containing the first stage larvae , hatch soon after being passed in the faeces ( Fig. 26 ) . |
| 4 | It comes with prostration , after several days and is most often found in patients of poor vitality , rather broken down weak constitutions who are subject to catarrhal illnesses ; most often needed in the elderly and in young infants . |
| 5 | At the other , encoders wishing to ensure that their texts can be used for the widest range of applications , will want provide a level of detailed documentation approximating to the kind most often supplied in the form of a manual . |
| 6 | One is contained in the sentence which is most often mocked in the Preface to ‘ Paradise Lost ’ : 'A schoolboy who reads a page of Milton by chance , for the first time , and then looks up and says ‘ By Gum ’ , not in the least knowing how the thing has worked , but only that new strength and width and brightness and zest have transformed his world , is nearer to the truth [ than the critics ] . ’ |
| 7 | Interestingly this figure is consistent with that most often encountered in the literature in this area where usually between 70 per cent to 80 per cent of employers are favourable to young workers . |
| 8 | The orthodox account is the one most often encountered in the mass media , and is also regularly found in some official reports purporting to explain phenomena such as prison riots . |