Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] often been " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they remained essential to him , perhaps because his life had so often been at stake . |
| 2 | There was , of course , no question of denying India the freedom which had so often been promised in the irresponsibility of opposition . |
| 3 | This was , to him , the Russia of his grandfather , the motherland he had so often been told about . |
| 4 | Feminists began by arguing that sex differences are artificial and insignificant , for the very good reason that the idea of natural differences had so often been used to justify discriminatory treatment against women . |
| 5 | In the western United States travellers encountered the native Americans , the Indians who had so often been dispossessed of their lands and livelihoods by the railway companies . |
| 6 | Lydia , who had quite often been subjected to this experience , twigged at once . |
| 7 | It said that terrorism had too often been treated as a law-enforcement problem when it should be treated as a matter of national security and an act of aggression against the USA . |