Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] be often [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | The muddle and rush were greater even than at Reading , and we were often kept there for some twenty minutes . |
2 | Harsh discipline was the child 's lot , and they were often terrorized deliberately and , not infrequently , sexually abused . |
3 | More confusion arose over the terms " project work " , " coursework " , " investigations ' and " problem solving " and they were often used indiscriminately . |
4 | And it is often made even harder to understand by the jargon of psychiatry : ‘ schizophrenia ’ , ‘ psychosis ’ and the like . |
5 | The name of this caput is usually the same as the whole estate and it is often recorded very early on . |
6 | Economic issues are real enough and it is often pointed out that politics is about priorities . |
7 | Tuberculosis spreads easily and it is often passed on from older members of the family to the children . |
8 | ( This also gives the texts of the statutes , but they are often broken up between different titles in rather an inconvenient way , which is one of the reasons why the text in Statutes in Force is preferable . ) |
9 | Since Chaucer 's day this has been referred to as CATERWAULING , but it is often recorded not as an aggressive sound but as a sexual one . |