Example sentences of "[pron] be often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am often asked whether I approve of cosmetic surgery — and I do not . |
| 2 | I am often asked for this but it is difficult to obtain . |
| 3 | I am often asked to lead seminars on a topic which has been chosen for me and has a ti tie like ‘ coming to terms with our own mortality ’ . |
| 4 | I am often asked just how fast the Augusta greens are . |
| 5 | I am often asked what skills children have to learn that are specifically drama skills . |
| 6 | I am often asked why Christians name that black day of Jesus ' death ‘ GOOD ’ Friday . |
| 7 | I am often asked why I go night fishing , and it is too easy to say it is because my chances of catching big fish are greatly increased at night . |
| 8 | I am often asked what if I had an accident or I collapsed and there was no one around to help . |
| 9 | I am often asked what makes a good day for bolting rabbits , bearing in mind that on some occasions they will readily leave the ground regardless of surface conditions , whereas at other times — often under what appear to be favourable conditions — they just can not be budged . |
| 10 | I am often asked if exercise is essential to weight loss . |
| 11 | What next , I am often asked — well , the latest ‘ Knitting revolution ’ is the use of the computer for designing fabrics and garments . |
| 12 | I am often asked the difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist . |
| 13 | I am often asked how , with Biros vanishing as often as they do , is it possible for some writers to get so much down on paper in a single lifetime ? |
| 14 | I am often congratulated when I draw a map for someone of how to reach somewhere |
| 15 | I 'm often asked if I get sick of making presentations and signing autographs but I always answer by saying that the time to worry is when no-one wants me to do these things . |
| 16 | I 'm often asked ‘ Could n't we have done this ourselves without Doctus ? ’ |
| 17 | Er I 'm often asked what it was like to live in those eventful days and as Colonel just said well , you used to make an awful lot of noise . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm often sought out , ’ he said . |
| 19 | They wake you at five a.m. , which is when I 'm often going to bed , and you 're so knackered by mid-morning that you doze all day . ’ |
| 20 | My father , my mother and I were often asked to spend Sunday afternoons in the country , but sometimes , unless a horse and cart were sent to collect us , we could not go because the families who invited us lived too far away . |
| 21 | As a result , I was often wasting my time during our first few flying sessions . |
| 22 | When I tried asking the girls I interviewed about them I was often met with a shrug , or a short ‘ no problem ’ reply , as if periods were nothing at all , of no significance , and certainly none to a book on looks , fashion and body-image . |
| 23 | I was often called Hamlet because I so resembled my father 's appearance in his most famous film , the ‘ Coronation ’ Hamlet , so named because it had been released in Coronation year . |
| 24 | I myself have five children and in England this raises an eyebrow , but in Kenya I was often asked would I be having another soon . |
| 25 | ‘ ¿Qué te parece Peru ? — How does Peru appear to you ? — was a question I was often asked . |
| 26 | I was able to visit her several times and then , in my capacity as literary editor of New Hungarian Quarterly , I was often sent to make contact with poets in America and so on . |
| 27 | I was often to think of them when I reflected on the career of Portia Forbes . |
| 28 | I do n't think even the leaders know what it means ’ , I was often told . |
| 29 | We are used to it ’ , I was often told but their susceptibility to colds and other illnesses indicated otherwise . |
| 30 | Physics , I was often told , was a ‘ general degree ’ , one which opened up a range of possibilities ; it was also , many students said , ‘ one of the best degrees you can get ’ . |