Example sentences of "often [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was most often to be found in that jazz Mecca , Dobell 's Record Shop in Tower Street , where he was happy to reminisce about earlier times and to discuss who played what on the records from his heyday . |
| 2 | Although for many applications the costs are negligible , they raise their heads too often to be ignored . |
| 3 | He had n't expected either that the Mess would be in a château , that the furniture would be impressively of its period — no worn armchairs or bits of junk in a state of collapse from subalterns ' games , as so often to be found in the messes of his experience , or indeed that his welcome would be so unaffectedly cordial . |
| 4 | As in art so in ceremony the ruler came often to be represented as Christ . |
| 5 | They are more often to be seen on Irish calendars than in real life ( except as ruins ) , but many survive as comfortable homes . |
| 6 | Even when allowance is made for meagre resources , there seemed often to be a wilful and needless callousness to many of these suburban barracks . |
| 7 | As mayor , he launched a campaign to clean up Athens , and was often to be seen — much to the irritation of the government — riding refuse lorries through the city in the early morning . |
| 8 | Plant fossils are often to be found in particular beds , reflecting conditions of deposition that were just right for their preservation . |
| 9 | They were often to be found operating shops and farms . |
| 10 | Her desires might be seen as figurative of more general feelings among postmodernist British authors , seeking inspiration and affection less often to be found within their own shores . |
| 11 | Towns had often to be sited in defensive , strategic positions not readily accessible to the railway . |
| 12 | Powerful and famous gentlemen became regular visitors to the house — including , I remember , figures such as Lord Daniels , Professor Maynard Keynes , and Mr H. G. Wells , the renowned author , as well as others who , because they came ‘ off the record ’ , I should not name here — and they and his lordship were often to be found locked in discussion for hours on end . |
| 13 | Rectal intercourse and fellatio are both common among homosexuals and diseases are therefore often to be found in the rectum and mouth . |
| 14 | Sophie is often to be heard on BBC Radio . |
| 15 | He has achieved much fame as a chamber music player ( with the Coull String Quartet , for example ) and is often to be heard giving solo recitals on BBC Radio 3 . |
| 16 | This is very often to be spotted by the word ‘ and ’ linking two separate items . |
| 17 | This was often to be a disturbing element in many of the subsequent trials when children 's uncorroborated evidence sent many to prison and to the gallows . |
| 18 | He was often to be met in Whitehall committees in 1944 . |
| 19 | Yet an evaluation seems so often to be understood more as a sort of independent commission of enquiry undertaken at a fairly late stage in the life of a programme or project by ‘ experts ’ from outside whose findings may or may not be in straightforward language . |
| 20 | For a week or so in February , a pair of longtailed tits was often to be seen in and beneath the shrubs near the nutbag . |
| 21 | Hunt , often to be seen in mum 's Austin A35 van around Wimbledon , was referring to budgies — a passion since boyhood . |
| 22 | Boys were often to be found on their knees before this icon , praying to be made into pop stars and for release from a lifetime as a motor-mechanic , or a clerk in an insurance firm , or a junior architect . |
| 23 | After thirty years of British rule , observed the distinguished scholar-administrator Henry Fosbrooke , they displayed none of the distressing symptoms of that ‘ soul erosion ’ , defined by him as a ‘ deterioration in obedience to existing moral standards , a falling off in observance of organized religion , a lack of purpose in life ’ , which seemed so often to be the result of British efforts to bring civilization to the African . |
| 24 | This is one explanation why stars are often to be found in groups of twos or threes . |
| 25 | A tree ELF , most often to be found in elm , oak , willow and yew , but also in pine , holly , ash and apple . |
| 26 | Facing the title-page is often to be found the ‘ frontispiece ’ , devoted to a portrait or some interesting part of the subject matter . |
| 27 | A new life , with new relationships , has often to be found if this new stage of personal development is not to seem meaningless and empty . |
| 28 | One of the results of this was that I was often to be found across the road at the Edwards ' place . |
| 29 | Differing theological formulations , we are assured , are ‘ often to be considered as complementary rather than conflicting ’ ( Orientalium Ecclesiarum 17 ) . |
| 30 | It is at the sentencing stage where formal strategies are most often to be found . |