Example sentences of "sometimes it [vb -s] that " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes it happens that after a number of successive doses like this , the patient will have the beginnings of an aggravation : the medicine should be stopped for two to four days ( or a few hours in acute disease ) and in order to continue treatment you want to give the remedy now in a more diluted form : from the first cup ( not the bottle ) take one teaspoonful and dilute it in another cup , and one teaspoonful of this solution should be given to the patient .
2 ‘ Those extensive powers are conferred upon the court for the beneficial winding up of the company , for sometimes it happens that the liquidator is unable to obtain from unwilling persons the information which he requires .
3 Sometimes it seems that the problems are completely out of our control .
4 Sometimes it seems that a destructive tension has been created between the new deal , achieving a balance , and the forthcoming reforms of specialist training .
5 Sometimes it appears that the mere act of measuring them in order to manufacture a candle of corresponding dimensions to burn at the tomb was sufficient to effect the cure .
6 Sometimes this is desirable because the expression seems awkward or inadequate ; sometimes it signals that the expression does not fit in with the rest of the style ( e.g. because of its register ) .
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