Example sentences of "is [adv] often [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir , — While post-match camaraderie among opposing rugby players is legend , it is less often that their respect and concern for each other on the field of play receives recognition . |
| 2 | They wrote : ‘ It is not often that a major British church seeks such an interview , and the conference and our 500,000 members and 1 million community can not but be offended . |
| 3 | It is not often that a major commanding such a small force gets the opportunity to present his views to the Prime Minister . |
| 4 | As with most areas of sociological study , it is not often that a simple and unproblematic definition can be established . |
| 5 | Soil creep is still moving the weathered rocks down the slopes but it is not often that the changing river channel is directly below a slope to remove this rock debris . |
| 6 | It is not often that I receive ‘ fan'-letters , and I always acknowledge them unless they are impertinent , or have obviously been written by lunatics . |
| 7 | It is not often that secateurs or the knife is proven to be the carrier of infection ; of course , if you know you are working on infected wood , it is only common sense to disinfect your tools with Lysol or a similar substance before moving on to plants that are clean . |
| 8 | It is not often that Britain can claim a first in the field of sports science , but this research is breaking new ground . |
| 9 | It is not often that the MacQuitty tastebuds are stumped by a GH recipe . |
| 10 | It is not often that the Organ publishes press releases , but an exception might usefully be made in the case of the handouts by Random House about the personnel changes there . |
| 11 | It is not often that the Opposition play to the Government 's strengths , but , as my hon. Friend the Member for Batley and Spen ( Mrs. Peacock ) said , the council tax is a simple and fair tax , and she was right to welcome its rebate scheme and its transitional relief . |
| 12 | Elean : As a firm supporter of the South African People 's struggle , it is not often that we see this side of apartheid oppression coming out in the liberation literature . |
| 13 | THE CRITICS Musicon Concert : Durham Cathedral IT is not often that the reverberant acoustic of Durham Cathedral enhances the sounds produced by a orchestra ; but two of the items in this concert certainly benefitted from the extra resonance . |
| 14 | Now , in contrast , a teacher is more often than not faced with a complete ignorance of Christianity . |
| 15 | When sailing in offshore winds , however , this rule is more often than not proved right , particularly in coastal bays . |
| 16 | Unfortunately this is more often than not a complete failure , as the weakest is bullied to death , followed by the next weakest and so on , until only one remains . |
| 17 | ( Let's face it , when was the last time you heard references to ‘ Cliff Richard 's lip ’ , Iggy Pop and the annual ceremony marking the opening of the Houses of Parliament side-by-side in a song ? ) ; indecision and apathy are confronted in ‘ Not Superstitious ’ ; ‘ Dead Industrial Atmosphere ’ details the decline of the North-East as an economic force and the subsequent social fall-out and , of course , we get a few long songs thrown in to spice things up , or down , as is more often than not the case . |
| 18 | In so far as any one institution is responsible for this basic stage of child socialization — literally , making social — then that institution is more often than not in our society the nuclear family . |
| 19 | After all that toil and trouble , the outcome was the same as it is more often than not in a constituency of the Republic — the same , that is to say , as if not a single vote had been transferred : the candidates elected were those who , on the showing of the very first count , had the greatest number of first-preference votes . |
| 20 | Because although it could be argued that what an utterance means is readily recoverable by anyone who can read printed English , it is important to understand that what the speaker wishes to express is more often than not defined by the factors which get lost in the process of transcription . |
| 21 | Alexander ( 1982a , p. 198 ) , for example , argues that this ‘ is more often than not reactive rather than initiative . |
| 22 | But it is a common and easily observed fact that measures of aggregate output in any economy tend to be positively serially correlated ; that is , a higher than average value for aggregate output in any period is more often than not followed by a higher than average value next period and , similarly , a low value in any period is more likely to be followed by another low one than by a high one . |
| 23 | It is n't often that unions have taken up issues such as racial or sex discrimination or unfair dismissal , and when workers have come out on strike they have usually been slow and reluctant to make these strikes official . |
| 24 | It is n't often that you hear a genuine story of a tail wagging the dog but spreadsheets and personal computers are just such a case . |
| 25 | It is n't often that a new cruising ground opens to yachtsmen , particularly one that has hundred of deserted anchorages , summer water temperatures comparable to the Med , and which is the same sailing distance from Britain as Gibraltar . |
| 26 | Add to this the pessimism and fear of becoming old , and the result is too often that many older people can become non-participating social individuals , who feel increasingly isolated and cut off from all that is happening around them . |
| 27 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 28 | The context of these cases is very often that a question has been asked about the validity of a disposition left in unconfirmed codicils . |