Example sentences of "often be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students of literature , traditionally resentful as they often are to be told they might be engaged in anything severely useful , found they could sell their talents abroad as teachers , and had to tolerate the uncomfortably realistic view that the nation might recover through the teaching of English some small part of the wealth it had lost on technical adventures like building and running Concorde . |
| 2 | Lists of the so-called Anti-Reformers or Boroughmongers were set out in the radical press , and as the electors were so few and were persons of standing , their views were really known in advance and the outcome could be predicted accurately — contrary to the modern opinion polls which so often are at variance with the result . |
| 3 | For women without previous commitment to their own career , dependent as they still often are on the normally higher earnings of men , there may be the excitement of starting their life project , married to their husband 's job and caring for him and their much hoped-for children . |
| 4 | Sometimes they occur in great drifts , sorted by sea currents , as shells often are on beaches today . |
| 5 | Some are difficult to grow under cultivation because of their natural habitat 's different climatic , soil or aspect requirements , but some grow like the weeds they often are in their native land . |
| 6 | It is positively helpful if his poems are written out as prose ( as they actually often are in the case of those lyrics embedded in prose treatises as opposed to independent lyrics ) because they are then naturally read for the speaking voice and not with any expectation of the regularity roused by the sight of poetic form . |
| 7 | The manager had often been to Holborn , and drunk her father 's wine . |
| 8 | While the truly indigenous private sector has been assisted in various ways to play a greater role in the national economy , this has often been at the expense of immigrant communities , who have rights of citizenship based on birth . |
| 9 | But they remained essential to him , perhaps because his life had so often been at stake . |
| 10 | Jake had had no real friends except Ben ; he had often been at the house in those old days , never saying much , but good at mending broken toys and constructing dolls out of handkerchiefs and folded paper . |
| 11 | Since political values have often been at stake in conflicts over social policy , the very character of the ideological issue has precluded a cool appraisal of all the policy options . |
| 12 | This has often been at the expense of existing capacity in the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | This avoided the appearance of lowering rates which had often been at a " customary " level for a generation or more . |
| 14 | It 's unlikely that anybody does it too often , since trippers tend to make skiing an all-day outing , but I 've often been on the beach with people planning a ski trip next day . |
| 15 | Since then the pressure for a Bill of Rights has built up , partly inspired by the work of the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg , in which successive British governments have too often been on the losing side . |
| 16 | He had often been on duty at the hospital , and then Comfort and Julia would lie on long cushioned chairs on the terrace , breathing in the lemon scent of the immense magnolia that sprawled up the old red brick of the house and talking about him and about what life might be like when they all left Oxford . |
| 17 | Instead , where disorder has occurred , it has more often been between the police and a faction or factions within the demonstration itself . |
| 18 | Instead we will discuss together all design variations in each particular field ; within a field it should not be assumed that the more complex facilities are the later ones , since evolution has often been towards simplifying systems from the programmer 's viewpoint . |
| 19 | The local parish council has often been in the hands of a group leading the area into decline . |
| 20 | Women have so often been in situations of powerlessness and dependence that any system of belief or programme of action that could count as ‘ feminist ’ must in some way see this as a central concern . |
| 21 | ‘ Since I became an officer in the SS , I 've often been in a position to satisfy my craving . ’ |
| 22 | With so many ‘ mature ’ players playing in the Whaddon strip over the years , varicose veins have often been in evidence . |
| 23 | Brazil has often been in the news because of the impeachment of President Collor , the Rio conference , widespread concern about environmental issues and violence , including the murder of street children , and , most recently , prisoners in Sao Paulo . |
| 24 | Despite such criticisms , Scottish mental health services have often been in the vanguard of community care developments , with services evolving locally for pragmatic reasons . |
| 25 | Up till that moment Tilda , in spite of her lucid gray eyes , showing clarity beneath clarity , which challenged the nuns not to risk scandalising the innocent , had often been in disfavour . |
| 26 | And so I 've quite often been in Stromness and somebody said to me , how are you getting home tonight ? |
| 27 | For the majority of building , wood was the chief material and little has survived , though rebuilding has often been in similar traditional style . |
| 28 | The attitude of outside well-wishers has too often been like that of a left-wing friend of mine who asked in the early days of the Grunwick strike ‘ Who is doing the organising there ? ’ — as though the workers were just so much raw material waiting to be organised . |
| 29 | That is the fact that the cost and expense of legal proceedings against a share-pusher will often be beyond the pockets of individual investors . |
| 30 | The problem with framing the duty to act in the company 's interests in terms of subjective intentions , however , is that in practice determining what the directors ' true objectives are will often be beyond the court 's capabilities . |