Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] often " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interestingly , a high proportion of dead metaphors have similar ( although not often identical ) dead metaphor equivalents : |
| 2 | I hope that we never reach the position that I have sometimes , although not often , met in my constituency , when I have received a phone call from a private home to the effect that it could no longer keep a patient who had perhaps become doubly incontinent . |
| 3 | We were allowed to help with the work of the farm , although more often than not I suspect we hindered the wheels of labour . |
| 4 | The need for better planning , and the need to organize and consider training courses within the overall framework of each individual 's development needs was mentioned in various ways , by a fifth of the sample , ( see Table 25 ) , although more often by larger libraries ( see Table 30 ) : |
| 5 | Dionysiac wisdom was now promulgated openly , ( sometimes through its own mythology , although more often ) it was mediated through the Olympian mythology associated with Homeric epic . |
| 6 | She was n't always an Englishwoman either , although more often than not the headmaster gave one of his parents British nationality . |
| 7 | Some problem-solving will take the form of a deliberative weighing of consequences , although quite often we choose the least likely-looking solution or toss a coin , but equally frequently we have little or no time for debate . |
| 8 | Witness lists , for example , although doubtless often accurate records of those present at a transaction , are not always what they seem . |
| 9 | Although very often his actions have little or no practical effect , they certainly succeed in raising public support . |
| 10 | The usefulness of the library to the English teacher must also not be under.emphasized , although very often " work in English " calls for only the simplest of library skills from the pupil . |
| 11 | It can still be cherished if less often adulated . |
| 12 | Indeed , ‘ mixed ability teaching ’ is a major if not often acknowledged problem in higher education , particularly in English , where the extent of prior knowledge is so variable . |
| 13 | I was sep separate and apart from that , they would have to have a operating room and a dispensary there , you see that 's what they would have to have , I mean , if there gon na have P D S A premises , this is what you 've got to have , cos very often the animal has to be put under and all sorts of things , you know what I mean , it would n't be just an office with say like a physician and a tenants , it would be a case of a , a surgery and things in that nature which would be required by , er quite a number of animals . |
| 14 | Cos very often the older people . |
| 15 | Cos very often asthmatics die of heart failure . |
| 16 | Christians in particular have trouble with this part of the grief response because so often it seems that Christians are not meant to be angry — especially when the feeling is commonly directed towards God personally , as it were : ‘ I try to live a good life and see what He has let happen … |
| 17 | I bear in mind also that this is an interim matter and interim orders are not lightly interfered with because of the temporary nature of those orders and because so often the evidence is provisional . |
| 18 | Because so often the questions that we ask are not the real issues they 're not the really important things . |
| 19 | Where it was necessary , for example , to make art-objects as a form of delineation of the governing kinship relations , or a form of practical relations with the natural world , or-as so often — as a form of the reproduction of a specific social or social-metaphysical order , the problem of hierarchy is radically different from the outset . |
| 20 | It can often be a mistake to team up an easy-going person with a dominant horse , because more often than not the horse will run rings round its rider . |
| 21 | So that I had two homes really , because as often as not I was down at her house , as in my own home . ’ |
| 22 | But , it 's often difficult because quite often they come up and to be absolutely honest they 're not that good . |
| 23 | Thank you erm I hardly ever comment on these but I just , I was n't sure what because quite often these things go under another guise , but there are a number of schemes on the drawing board for investigation as you all know and Mr will know some of those they 've been around for , for some years . |
| 24 | You 've still got the problem of addressing praise , because quite often you 've only , if you 've given somebody a specific task then it 's easy to praise or not to praise in that situation , but if they 've just come in , done their job and gone home , you know , just sat on a checkout for four hours , right it 's my time to leave , then , if they 've done nothing out of the blue , extraordinary , so they do n't do anything wrong , or , you know . |
| 25 | Because quite often erm we 've our birthday presents have n't we from the stuff we see in the sale after , the Christmas stuff for the girls . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Women are not given the opportunities because very often they are not up to the job . |
| 28 | D H S S , because very often , they either ca n't get telephone boxes working , or they 're hanging on so long that they do n't have enough money |
| 29 | The drawing of inferences is an essential part of discourse interpretation because very often essential information is implied rather than being made explicit . |
| 30 | And I think this is perhaps a slight confusion because very often , would you agree that we tend to use the quality and standard interchangeably ? |