Example sentences of "have [adv] often [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most obvious connotations of emptiness are the helplessness and hopelessness to which I have so often referred and , in addition , a general sense of worthlessness . |
| 2 | Minny and I have so often despised D for putting up with her . |
| 3 | THE women of Northern Ireland , who have so often spearheaded peace initiatives , know very well the anguish and pain caused by terrorist violence . |
| 4 | They break the signifying chains which have so often bound the project of emancipation to a strategy of cultural assimilation . |
| 5 | And as to the over-imaginative way in which papers have so often treated her , she added simply : ‘ Because I 'm only young , and have lived such a short and normal life , they run out of things to say about me . ’ |
| 6 | To Arnold the term philistine implied the idea of something stiff-necked and perverse in its resistance to light — ‘ and therein it specially suits our middle class , who not only do not pursue sweetness and light , but who even prefer to them that sort of machinery of business , chapels , tea-meetings and addresses from Mr Murphy , which makes up the dismal and illiberal life on which I have so often touched ’ . |
| 7 | I have little in common with the ideal woman that male artists in particular have so often painted . |
| 8 | He and another left-hander , the more dashing 21-year-old Robert Samuels , provided Jamaica with the batting stability they have so often lacked and captain Courtney Walsh gave them the bowling penetration with a tournament record 36 wickets at 11.30 each that combined to regain the Cup for Jamaica from Barbados , their third success in the last five seasons . |
| 9 | The head of Andrew 's cock strains in its clinical , plastic vice — there out of necessity and there where Iain 's hands have so often passed over . |
| 10 | The authors pinpoint the ailment of ‘ easy answers and one-off solutions ’ to which the selectors have so often resorted . |
| 11 | We recognise that logically this demands a transfer of resources and effort from the former to the latter , that in the words I have so often quoted , some social services are ‘ excessive ’ and others ‘ inadequate ’ — that it was bound to be so and that it is so . |
| 12 | Derived from policies which seek to preserve the landscape qualities of the English countryside , such estates have more often contributed to its deterioration . |
| 13 | Further , wives ' legal access to the marital home has been improved by the recent practices of divorce courts which have more often allowed the wife to claim possession of a portion of the marital home even if her name did not appear on the title deeds . |
| 14 | Marxists influenced by Gramsci 's analysis have also often asserted the impact of dominant ideas , but , in their view , acquiescence has been always problematic ; it has to be worked for through the establishment of hegemony and can never be simply taken for granted . |
| 15 | Religions have also often attempted to reduce all human action to stylistic embrace as an expression of cosmological pretensions . |
| 16 | I do n't know about you though , it 's a text that I have quite often had difficulty with and it 's And again I say rejoice , rejoice rejoice and again I say rejoice . |
| 17 | Foreigners have too often seen Japan as a monolithic society where individualism is frowned upon and conformity all important , where the tendency is towards harmony and consensus and a healthy element of conflict decidedly absent , and where the role of the group is all-pervasive . |
| 18 | But for a generation we have too often tolerated increasing levels of inflation , culminating in the disastrous hyper-inflation of the late '70s . |
| 19 | Instead of seeing Hollywood as a powerful rival to be confronted and challenged , British producers have too often looked upon the US film industry as a much-wooed lady who will one day fall into their arms . |
| 20 | Sadly , Christians have too often forgotten that the world belongs to Satan and is not our natural home ( as sons and daughters of the new humanity ) . |
| 21 | Whereas those who eschew bearing , or have too often found means to abort it may prove , like your wife , to be barren . ’ |
| 22 | Arguments over the female narrative voice in the Shipman 's Tale have too often directed attention away from its usual and final context in the Canterbury Tales and its only certified narrator towards its hypothetical earlier association with the Wife of Bath . |
| 23 | It is the churches which have too often failed to live according to the model set for them by Christ . |
| 24 | In different ways , both pre- or nonfeminist linguists and feminists themselves have very often done just this . |
| 25 | But the celebrations in the Diaspora and in the Yishuv have very often had a different spirit behind them . |
| 26 | In fact , it is only too evident that major political changes have very often resulted from violence , not only in revolutions and counter-revolutions , but also in wars of conquest or of national independence . |
| 27 | On the other hand , consultants from other search firms have very often failed in Heidrick and Struggles but this has not always been the case . |