Example sentences of "often [subord] not [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More often than not they are located ten miles outside town under a tin roof , in wasteland surrounded by a car park the size of Brazil . |
| 2 | Strach has been on his last legs for the past 2 seasons and while he still produces high quality performances more often than not he is looking more tired with each game he plays , not suprising for someone of his age . |
| 3 | Sometimes she was served up garnished with prizes , a certificate of excellence in swimming or a merit card from a teacher , but more often than not she was slapped down in front of him like a British Rail sandwich , garnished with a series of medical complaints . |
| 4 | And er the fire was underneath this you see in a little grate and you used to open the door and stoke it up and er more often than not it was fired by slack , which was a residue of the coal out of the coal house , you know when you broke your coal up with the lumps the the little sl bits of slack they were all put on one side for the copper fire . |
| 5 | Only occasionally was the river solid for most of its width — more often than not it was fringed by a thin strip of ice , our path . |
| 6 | and erm he would take er legal action or at least that was the idea , we hardly ever got any erm any change out of the Le Legal Department and as often as not it was written off . |