Example sentences of "be [adv] often [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moderator it ca n't be very often that a young minister contradicts a giant of the church in open assembly but it did happen several years ago . |
| 2 | Sir , — While post-match camaraderie among opposing rugby players is legend , it is less often that their respect and concern for each other on the field of play receives recognition . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is not often that a major commanding such a small force gets the opportunity to present his views to the Prime Minister . |
| 5 | As with most areas of sociological study , it is not often that a simple and unproblematic definition can be established . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is not often that I receive ‘ fan'-letters , and I always acknowledge them unless they are impertinent , or have obviously been written by lunatics . |
| 8 | It is not often that secateurs or the knife is proven to be the carrier of infection ; of course , if you know you are working on infected wood , it is only common sense to disinfect your tools with Lysol or a similar substance before moving on to plants that are clean . |
| 9 | It is not often that Britain can claim a first in the field of sports science , but this research is breaking new ground . |
| 10 | It is not often that the MacQuitty tastebuds are stumped by a GH recipe . |
| 11 | It is not often that the Organ publishes press releases , but an exception might usefully be made in the case of the handouts by Random House about the personnel changes there . |
| 12 | It is not often that the Opposition play to the Government 's strengths , but , as my hon. Friend the Member for Batley and Spen ( Mrs. Peacock ) said , the council tax is a simple and fair tax , and she was right to welcome its rebate scheme and its transitional relief . |
| 13 | Elean : As a firm supporter of the South African People 's struggle , it is not often that we see this side of apartheid oppression coming out in the liberation literature . |
| 14 | THE CRITICS Musicon Concert : Durham Cathedral IT is not often that the reverberant acoustic of Durham Cathedral enhances the sounds produced by a orchestra ; but two of the items in this concert certainly benefitted from the extra resonance . |
| 15 | It 's not often that someone can get paid for doing what they enjoy most . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | IT 'S not often that I am moved to feel genuine sympathy for a Cabinet Minister , let alone Norman Lamont . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is n't often that you hear a genuine story of a tail wagging the dog but spreadsheets and personal computers are just such a case . |
| 20 | It is n't often that a new cruising ground opens to yachtsmen , particularly one that has hundred of deserted anchorages , summer water temperatures comparable to the Med , and which is the same sailing distance from Britain as Gibraltar . |
| 21 | Add to this the pessimism and fear of becoming old , and the result is too often that many older people can become non-participating social individuals , who feel increasingly isolated and cut off from all that is happening around them . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The context of these cases is very often that a question has been asked about the validity of a disposition left in unconfirmed codicils . |
| 24 | But it was not often that events of the past ten years paraded their shadowy happenings for her attention ; very uncomfortable some of them were too — one unhappy little gamble of Dada 's emptied her purse quite considerably . |
| 25 | It was n't often that he had a whole day out on the moor . |
| 26 | It was n't often that men shrugged off her attempts to pay her way . |