Example sentences of "often that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 2 | Although this sounds silly , it happens quite often that contestants act with no regard at all for their own safety . |
| 3 | But it did blunt the tool quite easily and sharpening was needed more often that I had thought likely , though this walnut was extremely hard . |
| 4 | It can not be repeated too often that a dancer requires less time to make a statement than do words or music . |
| 5 | However , this is but the reverse side of the Janus face of justice , for in their eyes it happens more often that criminals are released or are not put in prison for long enough . |
| 6 | Behind Sweeney Agonistes lies Rivers , but Eliot 's interpretation and use of Rivers owes much to the Stevensonian world of his childhood reading , where white men seek paradise with island wives arrayed in ‘ the scarlet flowers of the hibiscus ’ , only to find too often that they are condemned to a life of soul-destroying boredom where ‘ Night on the Beach ’ is followed monotonously by ‘ Morning on the Beach ’ . |
| 7 | It is n't often that unions have taken up issues such as racial or sex discrimination or unfair dismissal , and when workers have come out on strike they have usually been slow and reluctant to make these strikes official . |
| 8 | They wrote : ‘ It is not often that a major British church seeks such an interview , and the conference and our 500,000 members and 1 million community can not but be offended . |
| 9 | The initiative for the change was British : full-backs , working in tandem , were catching forwards offside so often that games were becoming boring and gates were going down . |
| 10 | When women do confront sexism , the glib reply is often that it is a joke . |
| 11 | Sit with a right-wing , black-bashing , neo-fascist in a little pub in that great , arid and beautiful semi-desert , the Karoo , a kind of South African outback , and you will be told loudly and often that the blacks are getting ready to rise . |
| 12 | It 's not often that someone can get paid for doing what they enjoy most . |
| 13 | It seems to me often that her husband is kinder and more thoughtful . |
| 14 | The reformer , Konrad Waldhauser preached here , packing out the church so often that he was sometimes forced to preach in the square . |
| 15 | It is not often that a major commanding such a small force gets the opportunity to present his views to the Prime Minister . |
| 16 | The more often that this happens , the more likely is any individual to acquire infection . |
| 17 | Thomasina had said often that they should play more with their dolls like any other girls , instead of spending most of their time in the ‘ library ’ as she called their shared bedroom . |
| 18 | ‘ The abuse happened so often that I thought it was normal . |
| 19 | Baffling contradictions in the attitude of management happen more often that one might imagine . |
| 20 | As with most areas of sociological study , it is not often that a simple and unproblematic definition can be established . |
| 21 | Soil creep is still moving the weathered rocks down the slopes but it is not often that the changing river channel is directly below a slope to remove this rock debris . |
| 22 | The context of these cases is very often that a question has been asked about the validity of a disposition left in unconfirmed codicils . |
| 23 | The UFO community works principally through belief , not only in the existence of inexplicable UFOs , but also , usually , in some quite bizarre theory of their origin , often that they are a form of alien technology . |
| 24 | Their problem is often that there is nothing to explore except a bare concrete cell , and this frustrates them intensely . |
| 25 | They have played the roles so often that the women must be part of their lives . |
| 26 | The argument is often that a classification designed in the South ( no matter what alterations exist for Shetland ) does not take specifically local conditions and local interests into account . |
| 27 | It can not be stressed too often that employers are very wary of extremes . |
| 28 | There 's much that makes sense ; there 's much that is thought-provoking , even if the thought it provokes is often that the authors are off their trolley ( 'be alert to the strange fact that the end of each century divisible by five has witnessed a major transition in Western civilisation ’ ) . |
| 29 | It 's not often that I can say a piece of equipment is inspiring , but reviewing the A2 actually got me coming up with some ideas that I just had to get on tape . |
| 30 | Even when you have a rib transfer carriage , you will still need to transfer a stitch by hand sometimes ; this is much easier if you 've done it so often that it 's automatic . |