Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] is sometimes [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is an enormous area to consider briefly because it touches on the central issue of what is sometimes called ‘ the second industrial revolution ’ and , more precisely , on the relationship between labour and technological change . |
| 2 | She traces the origins of language interactions in the communicative patterns of earliest infancy , suggests some valuable features of what is sometimes dismissed as ‘ baby talk ’ and with extensive reference to the research literature , reviews a whole range of features of adult language that are thought to assist the child 's task of language learning . |
| 3 | The first group consists of what is sometimes known as the exceptions to the rule nemo dat quod non habet whereby a bona fide purchaser of goods from A commits no conversion but actually obtains a good title to them even though the goods really belonged to B and B never intended to allow A to sell them . |
| 4 | SQMS , or the Scottish Quality Management System , was given the approval of Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , for bringing ‘ rationalisation to what is sometimes referred to as the quality jungle ’ . |
| 5 | In some birds each sheet is twisted through a small constant angle with respect to its predecessor , giving rise to what is sometimes called a twisted ply or structure ( Figure 4 ) ; such a structure is handed . |
| 6 | What we are in all our shapes and sizes has been fashioned and contoured through both inheritance and experience — the comprehensive impact upon us of our parents , childhood and upbringing , and with it those joys , dramas and significant experiences which contribute to what is sometimes called our adult self . |
| 7 | Utilitarianism is a properly ethical theory , inasmuch as it puts forward the basics of a moral position , while emotivism belongs to what is sometimes called meta-ethics which professes to explain the nature of what is going on when an ethical or moral view is advocated . |
| 8 | In recent years there have been many attacks on what is sometimes called the classic realist novel on similar grounds : that far from being a means of communication it is a means of ideological domination and repression , reproducing on the cultural level the processes of industrial capitalism , making its audience passive consumers , reconciling them to their alienated state instead of liberating them from it , by making it appear normal or natural . |
| 9 | I regard the father 's promise in this case as what is sometimes called a unilateral contract , a promise in return for an act , a promise by the father to pay £1 per week in return for the mother 's looking after the child . |
| 10 | Through what is sometimes called ‘ role-playing ’ within the family , the child is taught to anticipate certain adult roles and identities , particularly those identities associated with being a man or a woman . |