Example sentences of "[noun] is sometimes [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Transport is sometimes made available and clubs , holiday schemes , outings and social evenings encouraged .
2 The latter type of relationship is sometimes called topological .
3 The injustice to the home-owner is sometimes made worse by the fact that very often he has n't the money to pay for the repairs and has to borrow from the bank in order to pay the bill .
4 This form of acquired dyslexia is sometimes called pure alexia or alexia without agraphia , the reason being that , as a rule , these patients have no impairment of writing or spelling , and so they contrast with patients having other kinds of acquired dyslexia , all of whom have had impaired writing and spelling as well as impaired reading .
5 This is because the discomfort is sometimes made worse by engorgement of the prostate caused by lack of sexual activity .
6 For this reason skill training is sometimes called strategic training .
7 This is why economic income is sometimes called permanent income , and it is also why economic earnings and dividends are equivalent .
8 The prayer field is sometimes left open , or undecorated , but vase , tree-of-life and other motifs are frequently incorporated .
9 This problem is sometimes called moral hazard , by analogy with insurance where the phenomenon is well known .
10 This emerging kind of organization within production is sometimes called flexible specialization .
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