Example sentences of "do sometimes [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In tracing that elusive ancestor the family historian therefore needs to be aware that long before the age of the railways people did sometimes travel long distances and that it was very common for men , women and adolescents to move within a few miles radius of their birthplace . |
| 2 | Companies do sometimes give incorrect details or omit them altogether on their company stationery . |
| 3 | Even so , it is worth investigating his approach in detail , since employers do sometimes make erroneous assumptions during the redundancy process which amount to acting unreasonably . |
| 4 | Now it is clear that we do sometimes have alternative ways of determining guilt and innocence to our own satisfaction and it therefore makes sense to think of a fair trial as a trial designed to produce the correct verdict where correctness is assessable by some other objective standards , but in many cases this is not so and in practice the correct verdict is simply the one which is reached after a fair trial . |
| 5 | Doubtless words do sometimes have emotive effects , and some ethical words may have fairly standard such effects in certain communities . |
| 6 | Er , of course er , Yeltsin does sometimes take own measures and that 's because the situation genuinely is very dangerous er and er , I think that everyone would agree that really . |