Example sentences of "[noun pl] so often " in BNC.

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1 Uneasy , because during those hours so often the dying became the dead .
2 This interpretation , which broadly parallels Bernard Cohn 's argument that the Indian judicial system was manipulated because of culture conflict between British and Indian legal norms , does not explain why Sri Lankans used the courts so often .
3 So I put it to him , ‘ Being famous does n't necessarily endow a guitarist with insight into the design and workings of the guitar , so why are artists so often asked for their input and reviewers almost never , when our job is to understand , examine and pass judgement on guitars on a daily basis ? ’
4 This is what dealers always try to do and this is precisely where women artists so often fall down .
5 Heavily patterned carpeting may seem a good idea , concealing ground in crumbs and cigarette burns until the cleaners get to work , but there are alternatives to the garish patterns so often selected for public areas .
6 ( ‘ They 've kicked us in the teeth so often ’ , ‘ They tried to write us off like they did Kenya ; but we would n't stand for it . ’ )
7 In relations between the German states , in which legalistic considerations so often bulked large , Latin held its ground longer than in Europe generally .
8 ‘ Have n't the Jews so often been the victims down the years of people who were looking for demons to bait ? ’ he said .
9 When Florence of Worcester draws elements of his account of the battle of Assandun in 1016 from Sallust he is revealing quite a lot about the classical interests of twelfth-century historians , but also raising doubts about his own reliability , and William of Malmesbury , whose methods so often find favour with modern scholars , nevertheless records miracle stories which his critical faculties ought to have led him to doubt , and perhaps did ; and like historians of all periods , William , Florence and their colleagues were at the mercy of the bias and inadequacy of their sources , as well as their own prejudices and errors .
10 Furthermore , we should recall that in modern individuals ( and almost certainly also in the past ) internalized verbal commands and prohibitions are of the first significance in the acquisition of the superego and manifest this aspect of themselves in the auditory hallucinations of accusing and scorning voices so often found in paranoia .
11 They have played the roles so often that the women must be part of their lives .
12 The farm buildings so often found below the galleries are situated further away in this case .
13 She would run and hide as her parents ' altercations so often got out of hand with plates crashing and books thrown .
14 From Africa it was noted in one or two cases , that some visitors who came from extremely distressing and confined situations found it hard to offer to groups the ‘ hopeful and inspiring ’ messages so often hoped for and expected .
15 In the latter , fines for simply chatting with workmates contrast vividly with the drinking customs so often described in the artisan trades .
16 Between them they expressed the opposing feelings so often displayed by young children in the peak age of attachment : on the one hand , the protest and fury about being left — cries of rage — and then a sullen refusal to acknowledge and come to the mother ; on the other hand , the desperate yearning for the loved one and a need to cling and not let go .
17 Our feelings so often determine how well or otherwise we shall choose to perform , and will also affect the quality of our work relationships .
18 It made me forget for a moment how low sales figures so often are nowadays , as there are some exciting campaigns planned , some clever gimmicks , some expensive promotions and , more important , some wonderful books .
19 Few report writers invest up to a third of their time on follow through which is why their efforts so often arrive on death row ; the shelf in someone 's office where doomed reports await transfer to the waste bin or shredder .
20 At a local level sponsors so often are involved in the club on a more direct way but it is n't always seen as a problem and can be enormously beneficial to both parties .
21 It helps that Preston relies on the musical conviction of his playing and his impeccable technique to get his message across ; thankfully we are spared any of the acts of registrative trickery , especially in the C major Toccata , which lesser organists so often impose on the music in a feeble attempt to inject artificial stimulants into their performances .
22 It is incredible that my challenge in tournaments so often during this time had been to make the cut .
23 The quality of ‘ education in the round ’ is to be found at its most developed in the small village school where the teachers so often become an integral part of the community in which they work .
24 The residual force of this traditional view was one of the main reasons why PNP coordinators so often encountered anxiety and resistance .
25 Well , we have our own gifts , but the presentation of food is not one of them , and since French cooks and food purveyors so often appear to lose the lightness of their touch in this respect when they leave their native land and settle abroad , one can only conclude that the special stimulant which brings these gifts into flower is in the air of France itself .
26 Why did people who put adverts for local fêtes in their windows so often neglect the paint on their woodwork ?
27 Of the reasons why females so often fail to make it to the very top , two are basic : some of the best women managers do not achieve their full potential in business because they do not know how exceptional they are , and others fail to get a boardroom seat because they lack the confidence .
28 It was odd , she thought , that scientists so often were n't religious when their work revealed a world so variously marvellous and yet so mysteriously unified and at one .
29 How many had been beggared while the war between the royal cousins had swept across their fields or through their towns , while the barons who should have protected them looked only to their own gain , shifting loyalties so often that the ordinary common man found himself constantly besieged and attacked by both sides ?
30 The wool shop now closed on Wednesday afternoons so often Maureen drove her mother and her Aunt Carrie to visit Theresa , whose baby was due in June , while Anne stayed with Grandma Houlihan .
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