Example sentences of "so often [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Situated on Brighton Seafront close to the famous West Pier , the Brighton Hotel offers elegance , luxury and comfort , coupled with the friendly service so often lacking in the larger establishment . |
| 2 | In the government 's view it is wrong that planning decisions about land use should so often result in the realizing of unearned increments by the owners of the land to which they apply , and that desirable development should be frustrated by owners withholding their land in the hope of higher prices . |
| 3 | The ecclesiasticism that so often gets in the way of the gospel ; the temporal concerns of church politics that take up so much time ; the fussiness of much of church life ; our obsession with ‘ churchy ’ things — all these and more are aspects of additions that are really secondary concerns . |
| 4 | They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions . |
| 5 | Although the Apache is remarkably docile its accident record in the USA is not among the best of the light twins , possibly because the type is so often employed in the training role . |
| 6 | Even mention of ‘ cut and sew ’ never evoked the groans I so often hear in the UK , as most of the knitters realise , as I do , the value of this technique . |
| 7 | If you believe that Hollis was a Russian agent then the Crabb affair fits neatly into the jigsaw but , as so often happens in the intelligence world , the same set of facts can be tinkered and tailored with so as to fit any preconceived belief . |
| 8 | As so often happens in the last years , his remaining family and oldest friends became of most importance to him . |
| 9 | ‘ I wish I had red hair , ’ Samantha said to her mother , inspecting herself as she so often did in the tarnished mirror surrounded with gilded laurel leaves and intertwined cherubs . |
| 10 | Jakobson uses a culinary example in his discussion of the question which nicely complements the vessel-liquid image which is so often implied in the form-content distinction . |
| 11 | In such circumstances education becomes much more than the dead-end routine it so often seems in the industrialized world . |
| 12 | This is what has so often happened in the past ; and although the Chancellor has made it clear that low inflation remains his goal , now that the country is out of the ERM there is not a great deal that he can do to prevent it . |
| 13 | This is what has so often happened in the past ; and though the Chancellor has made it clear that low inflation remains his goal , now that the country is out of the ERM there is not a great deal that he can do to prevent it . |
| 14 | This down-to-earth good sense has not been sufficiently stressed in the past ; there is a normality , a sanity , a state of psychological health which is so often missing in the more obviously ‘ Romantic ’ of Wordsworth 's contemporaries . |
| 15 | These two discourses of eugenics and feminism , seemingly distinct yet so often linked in the political language of many early twentieth-century feminists , had clearly influenced Outram 's educational thinking . |
| 16 | In the latter , fines for simply chatting with workmates contrast vividly with the drinking customs so often described in the artisan trades . |