Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] is sometimes [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 And number three whose was the signet ring which is sometimes known as the fisherman 's ring ?
2 ( b ) Counternotices Where the initiator of the review is required to specify the proposed new rent it is sometimes provided that the figure so specified shall be the new rent unless the other party serves a counternotice within a given period .
3 So er a few other little aspects of the er of of er the congr of of of the holy all of of of the er Vienna settlement which is sometimes underplayed .
4 3.14 There is a head of damage which is sometimes called the loss of amenities ; the man made blind by the accident will no longer be able to see the familiar things he has seen all his life ; the man who has had both legs removed and will never again go upon his walking excursions — things of that kind — loss of amenities ( per Birkett LJ in Manley v Rugby Portland Cement Co Ltd , a decision of the Court of Appeal in 1951 ) .
5 We would like to add to that statement of principle by stressing a point which is sometimes overlooked , namely , that the trial process itself is equipped to deal with the bulk of complaints which have in recent Divisional Court cases founded applications for a stay .
6 But there was another group which is sometimes forgotten : the holders of the most intimate household offices .
7 But it too is a compensatory move which is sometimes made .
8 The signs at first sight seem to be completely different from those of other scripts found in Minoan Crete , and they are often for this reason said to be an import : the disc itself is sometimes explained away as a foreign curiosity .
9 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 .
10 It is a retort which is sometimes given , but quite beside the point .
11 Endo is a leading Japanese novelist who is sometimes compared with Graham Greene , but he writes about religion with a greater intellectual rigour than Greene , in a style both terse and elegant .
12 Thus for example it is sometimes held to be of significance that the first appearance of the resurrected Christ is said to have been to a woman .
13 By a similar slip of logic it is sometimes presumed in such discussions that voluntary bodies are the only or the main beneficiaries of voluntary help and cash aid .
14 Like Rolle , Hilton sees prayer as the primary activity , recognising it as a state of consciousness which enables man to receive the gift of God ; and while it does not cause it to be given , nevertheless prayer is a way in which such grace comes ( c.24 ) He sharpens a constant awareness of two modes of activity in the inner life : that of conscious effort , and that of an effortless creative power of love and understanding which is sometimes experienced and believed by the mystics to be the work of God in man .
15 The reduced appendages each consist of a limb-base or coxite bearing a distal stylus which is sometimes regarded as the vestige of the shaft of a typical walking limb but which may conceivable be a " coxal epipodite " homologous with the coxal styles of Symphylan or Machilid legs .
16 Data files ( issue 44 ) contain information which is sometimes used by a program .
17 If the first derivative of the property-temperature curve is measured , a change in the vicinity of T g is found ; for this reason it is sometimes called a second-order transition .
18 For this reason it is sometimes called the delocalisation enthalpy , resonance energy or stabilisation energy .
19 Talabheim lies in the centre of the Great Forest and for this reason it is sometimes known as the Eye of the Forest , where , like the eye of a cyclone , all is calm amidst the danger all around .
20 ( d ) The hybrid situation It is sometimes agreed between the parties to a marriage that the matrimonial home ( or the husband 's interest therein ) be transferred to the wife and a third party ( eg a new husbandsee Chapter 5 ) .
21 There is a rule of construction which is sometimes quoted ( " inclusio unius , exclusio alterius " ) .
22 This example also illustrates a second idea which is sometimes referred to as ‘ polycentricity ’ .
23 Unidirectional microphones have a pick-up pattern which is biased in the forward direction , a characteristic which is sometimes referred to as cardioid because of the heart-shape of the pattern .
24 In law , then , the essence of an act of God is not so much a phenomenon which is sometimes attributed to a positive intervention of the forces of nature , but a process of nature not due to the act of man and it is this negative side which deserves emphasis .
25 In order to emphasize the motherhood of the Goddess She is sometimes accompanied by Ganesha or Skanda , her sons .
26 Sometimes an observant parent will notice something that will give us a clue ; after a child recovers from one of those high fevers that ‘ lay it very low ’ for a short time it is sometimes seen that the child is more ‘ well ’ than before it became ‘ ill ’ , provided the illness has not been inappropriately treated or interfered with in some way .
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