Example sentences of "be [adv] often [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By bad luck , the question of women 's emancipation has been most often seen as parallel to that of non-European races . |
| 2 | These are most often described as giant squid and octopuses ( see pages 18–19 ) or as " sea serpents " . |
| 3 | For the first time we can measure the true amount of perishable food we throw away and establish which lines are most often wasted because their sell-by-date has passed . |
| 4 | These are most often found where human subjects are involved . |
| 5 | If her figures are also valid for the geological research theses of other countries , then it would appear that geological theses are less often cited than are those on chemistry , as reported by Bottle . |
| 6 | Occasionally a species from the Caribbean lbes , Rocordea florida is imported , but these are less often seen than their Pacific relatives . |
| 7 | The probable reason that indexed sequential files are so often used when direct files would perform better is the ready availability of software . |
| 8 | The bile ducts are not often visualised or explored during this operation and it is uncertain how those patients with both duct and gall bladder stones can be identified , either beforehand or perioperatively . |
| 9 | All the plants mentioned are likely to be available from good garden centres , but cannas are not often sold as growing plants , and Perilla frutescens may be difficult to find as plants ( seed is widely available ) . |
| 10 | We will not consider any more complex tones , since these are not often encountered and are of little importance . |
| 11 | The truth is that they 're so often used as fast turnover test beds for review equipment , and new fishkeeping ideas , that they are probably less interesting than the majority of our readers ' tanks . |
| 12 | While it does seem to be a little less pernicious , in that male respondents less often say that they want to marry only a woman who is a virgin than they used to , it is still alive and well in that women are more often criticized than men for engaging in non-marital sexual activity . |
| 13 | This differentiation between function and content word is further substantiated by letter cancellation studies which showed that letters in function words are more often missed than letters in content words ( Smith and Groat , 1979 ) . |
| 14 | It is possible , for example , that a large proportion of loans are for the most recently deposited theses ; alternatively , it could be that some theses are more often requested than others , and that loan records for such theses would be found within different time periods . |
| 15 | The popular image of the absent-minded , long-haired professor may have given way in recent years to the well-suited , urbane telly-don , but college teachers are still often represented as colourful , eccentric and even controversial figures : exotic creatures , trapped in a forlorn struggle between an unfeeling college bureaucracy on the one hand and an unthinking — nay , an invincible — student ignorance on the other . |
| 16 | Women are also often portrayed as irrational , over-emotional , deviant versions of psychology 's proper object , the rational , unified subject . |
| 17 | I am also often told that it is not good for a curate 's career to stay in the same area or parish ! |
| 18 | The scale on which Pound was working was not clear even to the poet himself ; so that the eleven cantos which he originally designated as ‘ preparation of the palette ’ are now by responsible commentators considerably extended — to the extent that the first thirty cantos , which are all that the twenties knew of the poem ( A Draft of XVI Cantos ( Paris , June 1925 ) ; A Draft often Cantos 17–27 ( 100 copies , September 1928 ) ; and A Draft of XXX Cantos ( 210 copies , August 1930 ) ) , are now often regarded as laying out no the painter 's palette the hues that only in subsequent cantos would be combined to polemical and imaginative purpose . |
| 19 | Lesions identified at endoscopy are now often suggested as being the cause of anaemia . |
| 20 | It can not be too often repeated that there is no reason whatsoever why humanity should be made to believe that its religion must have origins in the literature and man-made traditions of the remote past . |
| 21 | Small parties are quite often noted and gatherings of 50 or more have been seen ; the largest in recent years was of 200 off Pett Level on 7 February 1965 . |
| 22 | Those spending any time in a residential home were less often described as having a poor quality of life if the respondent was a staff member than if he or she was a relative : 10 per cent compared with 42 per cent . |
| 23 | In maths and language they were less distracted and spent more time on work and routine activities , although in art the pattern was reversed : older children were more often distracted and did less work . |
| 24 | Problems were more often solved when , after a day of hard , heated riding , the King repaired with his shrewdest advisers to the cool belvedere suspended over the castle 's north precipice , with its stupendous view to the sea , and the mountains of Asia beyond . |
| 25 | It is most often used when there is an internal conflict of feeling . |
| 26 | It is most often used where a salesperson is faced with the same objection being raised time after time . |
| 27 | Later we shall come to look at the practical areas where conflict is most often experienced and what can be done about it . |
| 28 | There was certainly not the constant locking , unlocking and clanging of doors nor was there the feeling of oppression that is so often felt when moving around most prisons . |
| 29 | The reality of here and now is so often ignored and with it , the possibility of creating paradise here and now . |
| 30 | It is just this point that is made by Lado , whose approach to language teaching is so often represented as directly opposed to the development of communicative abilities : |