Example sentences of "that [pers pn] be sometimes [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless the belief in our own fallibility is itself an " incorrigible " belief ; i.e. if we believe that we are sometimes mistaken , then we are most certainly sometimes mistaken . |
| 2 | Although the first two positions are committed to the view that we are sometimes justified in causing nonhuman animals significant pain , in pursuit of institutionalised human interests , animal rightists deny that we are ever justified in doing this . |
| 3 | And for disabled people , too , cooking can be such an effort of organisation , that they are sometimes tempted not to do anything . |
| 4 | Insects are fragile and easily damaged , and it is not surprising that they are sometimes destroyed completely . |
| 5 | But differences between dialects in underlying semantic structure are real enough , in the sense that they are sometimes reflected in speaker behaviour by cross-dialectal miscommunications and communicative breakdowns ( Labov 1972d : 63 ; L. Milroy 1984 ) . |
| 6 | The problem with Select Committees is that they are sometimes compelled to take a narrow view , rather than the broader view that is reflected by the report . |
| 7 | The tragedy of clients ' huge losses is that they were sometimes led to believe they would make fortunes on the above stocks within a month or two , maybe within three or four weeks . |
| 8 | The heart-shaped shields of the Moslems , called adarga , proved so popular that they were sometimes adopted by their opponents . |
| 9 | According to ACCOUNTANCY 's holiday survey , 44% of accountants leave a contact number while they are away and , of those , 78.3% said that they were sometimes called , while 5% were frequently contacted . |
| 10 | It is strange that I can find no reference to these beans in Peggy Earl 's " Tales of Islay " because it was she who told me that they were sometimes called " fairy eggs " and that some of the more wealthy people had them set in silver mounts to wear round their necks . |
| 11 | It is strange that I can find no reference to these beans in Peggy Earl 's " Tales of Islay " because it was she who told me that they were sometimes called " fairy eggs " and that some of the more wealthy people had them set in silver mounts to wear round their necks . |
| 12 | In many industrialised market economies collective bargaining has become so firmly established that it is sometimes regarded as being virtually synonymous with the prevailing system of industrial relations . |
| 13 | When used it was hammered or battered into sheets ( hence the fact that it is sometimes referred to as ‘ battered brass ’ ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Second Empire style ’ was copied and transplanted to other European capitals , and even to the New World and it was so closely identified with the Emperor himself that it was sometimes referred to as Style Napoléon III . |
| 15 | Years and heredity within the Anglican Church ( his father had been a colonial bishop ) had so formed his manners and speech that it was sometimes thought so . |
| 16 | The most recent work on the subject stresses the complexity and ambiguity of much of the legislation of this period regarding the serf population of Russia : it also suggests that after 1775 repression of peasant disorder may have been less arbitrary than before and that it was sometimes accompanied by efforts by provincial governors to persuade landowners to treat their peasants with greater humanity . |
| 17 | Perhaps some component of Pascal 's restless questioning was due to his displacement through recurrent ill-health , but what makes his questionings still worth reading , is that they confront the foundations of our existence and that despite the fact that he is sometimes seen merely as a Catholic apologist . |
| 18 | The reformer , Konrad Waldhauser preached here , packing out the church so often that he was sometimes forced to preach in the square . |