Example sentences of "we [be] often " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we are often successful in securing accommodation , it is a problem which stretches our resources to the full and we are urgently raising money to buy emergency short term accommodation for people with HIV/AIDS . |
| 2 | We do not have a very good sense of smell , and as a result we are often tactless when handling animals . |
| 3 | We can usually show that social organization correlates closely with a species ecology yet we are often far from clear about the processes by which this association has come about . |
| 4 | Characteristic of Hinduism , we are often told , is the sort of analogy which suggests that God permeates the world in the way that salt permeates water when mixed with it ( this comparison appears in The Upanishads , a series of early Hindu sacred texts ) . |
| 5 | In this area of discussion too there may be a closer theistic structure between the two religious groupings than we are often led to believe . |
| 6 | Think how easily we are often able to recall and describe films or television programmes we have seen . |
| 7 | Remember , we are often drawn to the essential oil we may actually need at the time . |
| 8 | There is a paradox that we are often afraid of our own anger . |
| 9 | We are often frustrated by our children and angry with them . |
| 10 | In contemporary sociology , particularly in studies of working-class life , we are often given passages which are enclosed in quotation marks . |
| 11 | As paddlers we are often confronted with the filth that regularly gets tipped into our rivers . |
| 12 | We are still continuously affected by the subtle aspects of life , for they are a part of our inward being , but we are often unconscious of this subtle interplay . |
| 13 | Man can , to some extent , tell where sounds are coming from , though we are often fooled by reflected sounds . |
| 14 | We are often attracted to another person by their physical appearance and sometimes by their ideas , opinions and goals . |
| 15 | We are often sick , our children die ; we are hungry . |
| 16 | We are often contacted for advice by other hospitals . |
| 17 | ‘ Peter was born in the room above the restaurant and we are often asked about his links with the building . |
| 18 | However , when this becomes a driver we are often looking for attention when we are doing something . |
| 19 | However , by keeping our thoughts to ourselves we are often depriving that person of information which could be very helpful . |
| 20 | In matters of this kind we are often considering a span of 15–20 years from the time when it is first apparent that an old person can not ‘ carry on as before ’ to the time of death . |
| 21 | At Redland we are often seen as big , progressive and up-to-date . |
| 22 | In an attempt to eliminate what we know is stupid , we are often forced into a bureaucratic game through which we hope to define our expectations and the rules of the game so that emotions will be controlled and rationality will triumph . |
| 23 | In terms of American provenance , we have sent so much material across the Atlantic over the years that we are often called up by someone who has discovered our label on their piece with a view to our buying it back . |
| 24 | But we are often faced with the experienced need to make ‘ sense ’ of our lives and our feelings and goals , to relate confused fragments of ourselves into something that seems more coherent and of which we feel more in control . |
| 25 | We are often also faced , however , with the need to tolerate contradictions , not to strive for an illusory or impossible ideal , and to avoid self-punishing forms of anxiety , defence and guilt ( and feminist guilt can be as punishing as any other kind ) . |
| 26 | We are often so anxious to talk , to express our views or to make our point , that we often fail to listen to what is being said to us . |
| 27 | People matter more than things — an ideal we are often in danger of forgetting today . |
| 28 | At the same time , we are often too busy to eat regularly , grabbing what is easiest rather than what is good for us . |
| 29 | In modern linguistics , we are often told of our remarkable ability to construct meaningful sentences which we have never previously heard ; yet this is surely matched by our ability to absorb the social implications of an array of furnishing consisting of a combination which is not only almost certainly in some degree unique , but some of whose basic elements may also be new to us . |
| 30 | November — We are often better favoured in the last weeks of the season … ’ |