Example sentences of "sometimes [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blanket embargoes such as the ‘ red-lining ’ of areas in which loans will not be advanced are probably rare in rural districts , but restrictions are sometimes placed on older cob , stone and thatched buildings so that many cheaper properties may not be mortgageable . |
| 2 | The board responsible for the orphans sometimes checked on the health of the children , but they always sent the beadle , a kind of local policeman , to announce their visit the day before . |
| 3 | 3. hospitals where treatment is sometimes given on an in-patient or out-patient basis ; |
| 4 | What would be more relevant , and what was sometimes commented on , was the need to develop and produce training that would require possibly less money directly spent and/or less time away from service points , so that needs could be met , perhaps more effectively , within existing constraints and resources . |
| 5 | The fact that British films of the early 1930s do n't reflect pressing economic and social realities is sometimes blamed on the censorship system . |
| 6 | Half a century before Saxe wrote , the forces engaged in the great battles of the War of the Spanish Succession had sometimes amounted on each side to 60,000–90,000 men and the French army had been equivalent to about two per cent of the country 's population : he himself is said to have commanded 130,000 at Raucoux in 1746 and 98,000 at Lawfeldt in the following year . |
| 7 | The violence of these movies is sometimes excused on the ground that they portray violence already existing in society or that they entertain . |
| 8 | Macroscopically , upper gastrointestinal endoscopy showed sessile polypoid formations , covered with normal or erythematous mucosa , sometimes eroded on the surface and difficult to visualise because of enlarged gastric folds . |
| 9 | Most tiles now have square edges ; these are sometimes glazed on one or two edges , sometimes not , so if you want an exposed glazed edge , check the actual tiles before you buy . |
| 10 | Very small children were sometimes sat on the cabin top and tied to the chimney to keep them safe . |
| 11 | In these circumstances , there is evidence to suggest that patients are sometimes selected on the basis of insurance status rather than need . |
| 12 | Although sometimes seen on the chalk cliffs in the summer , Cormorants have not bred in Sussex since 1938 or earlier . |
| 13 | Fifty-six per cent did not operate the sales ledger on secured terms ; 27 per cent did ; and 16 per cent sometimes operated on secured terms , using bank guarantees , export credit guarantee , or cash up front . |
| 14 | When Tuesby & Cooper published their catalogue there was already a considerable variety of ‘ finishes ’ available for coffin furniture : gilt copper , copper , bronze , brass , silver and ‘ white ’ ( tin-dipped stamped iron , though silver leaf was sometimes applied on top of the tin ) ; black ( more expensive than silver , being tin-dipped stamped iron painted with two or more coats of matt black paint ) ; and ‘ coloured ’ for children 's coffins ( tin-dipped stamped iron , painted with two or more coats of matt white with certain details highlighted with water-gilding ) . |
| 15 | Trenchant editorials are sometimes written on the strength of statements made in court or Parliament . |
| 16 | A similar state of affairs had existed only at the very dawn of coinage when , in a number of areas including Asia Minor or Athens , a variety of personal designs had appeared , perhaps implying that for a short time after its inception coinage was sometimes produced on the authority of prominent individuals rather than of the state . |
| 17 | Given that most social work courses give a pass rate of 99 per cent it is hardly surprising that less-than-adequate workers are sometimes unleashed on the public . |
| 18 | Unlike true appendages , processes of the body-wall are by no means invariably represented by embryonic counterparts ; they may or may not be segmentally arranged , they may be originally paired or unpaired , and more than a single pair is sometimes borne on a segment . |
| 19 | The care which bereaved Minoans sometimes lavished on their dead suggests a belief in the AFTERLIFE , and the idea of an Elysium , a pleasant Heaven awaiting people at the end of their earthly lives , is thought to have been a Minoan creation . |
| 20 | ‘ Rubbish ’ is an adult verdict sometimes based on the assumption that what is unrewarding for the adult reader must be unrewarding for the young reader . |
| 21 | We must be careful with this argument because it is sometimes based on anatomical studies that have used insensitive methods or only a partial consideration of the data . |
| 22 | First there were a series of general review papers sometimes based on inaugural or presidential addresses and these included a review of Man and the Natural Environment ( Wilkinson , 1963 ) ; advocacy of the need for study of anthropogeomorphology because of the earlier deficiency of studies of the form-creating activity of man and of the influence of man in natural phenomena ( Fels , 1965 ) ; and a revival of the title used by Sherlock for a review by Jennings ( 1966 ) in which he stressed that ‘ Man as a Geological Agent ’ is significant because studies of contemporary processes are nearly always heavily biased by anthropogenic effects . |
| 23 | In the case of production contracts , which will be repeated over a period of time , pricing is sometimes based on historical rates with the learning curve applied to reduce them year by year . |
| 24 | They do have a medical examination as part of the process of coming here and in the course of that medical examination it is sometimes disclosed that a woman is or is not a virgin , and that is sometimes noted on the medical report and from time to time some ECO 's have used that piece of evidence in making a decision about the relationship of the wife ; I have always condemned it and by and large it does not happen . |
| 25 | We had first hung the avant-garde pictures in our main room , but as the man in charge of our building , and a local policeman , sometimes called on us , my wife and I decided to hang the pictures in the bedroom and put the icons in the living room . |
| 26 | The responsibilities of being an angel sometimes weighed on him . |
| 27 | All the same , every Saturday was the same , that thrill of excitement as the clock struck midnight , and her own breathless hope as Miguelito 's lively black eyes roved the audience , and sometimes rested on her as his liquid voice accompanied his virtuoso guitar playing … |
| 28 | A chancre is also sometimes found on the cervix and rarely on the vaginal wall . |
| 29 | Routes are sometimes numbered on local signs and maps . |
| 30 | Methods of evaluating schools are sometimes put on a spectrum with external inspection ( parodied as ‘ the clipboard approach ’ ) at one end and self-evaluation and reporting at the other . |