Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] is sometimes [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The point here is that techniques get evaluated and researched but programmes and policies do not , with the result that the ‘ social factors ’ which block policies tend to go unresearched too , or at best identified piecemeal , although lip-service to their importance is sometimes paid .
2 The first is not based on chant , but relies on a repeated and varying ‘ motto ’ in the tenor , with similar beginnings to each movement in the upper voices ; its authorship is sometimes allotted to Lionel Power [ q.v. ] or Dunstable .
3 Clare was aware that black caps occasionally over winter , and that their song is sometimes mistaken for that of a nightingale .
4 The parallel between primitives and infants is the weakest part of Freud 's model , but to suggest that there are parallels between the responses of neurotics in modern societies and some primitive culture 's ways of handling their situation is sometimes enlightening .
5 Their input is sometimes supplemented by the Black Five Group — close working friends of the Bolton Company .
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