Example sentences of "it is sometimes [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That this can be done is borne out in practice , and it is sometimes noted that , in the course of treatment for some long-standing chronic condition , patients will re-experience old symptoms which they may have forgotten about . |
| 32 | It is sometimes said that the dissident minority in the Cabinet , led by Henderson , were not willing to accept cuts in unemployment benefit . |
| 33 | It is sometimes said that only the Exodus complaint stories and the one in Numbers 20 , which we will come to in a moment , deal with matters of life and death . |
| 34 | It is sometimes said that mutation is ‘ random ’ . |
| 35 | Thus it is claimed that God is perfectly just , where we are imperfectly so — indeed it is sometimes said that God is ‘ justice ’ or ‘ justice itself ’ . |
| 36 | It is sometimes said that this is a novel view of the question , that until very recently all political theorists believed in a general obligation to obey the law . |
| 37 | It is sometimes said that butlers only truly exist in England . |
| 38 | It is sometimes said that whoever keeps the minutes of a meeting holds the real power and in negotiating situations there is much truth in this . |
| 39 | It is sometimes said that Watkins adopted such a variety of markers , including features of all types and ages , that his ideas can be discredited on this point alone . |
| 40 | Even when this was not the overt purpose , research results have been used to justify particular aspects of women 's subordination : thus even today it is sometimes said that girls do n't become engineers because they lack spatial ability , or that their relative lack of aggression makes them less effective leaders . |
| 41 | It is sometimes said that if one wishes to reject such values one must do so by rejecting the very concepts incorporated in such words , and can not do this merely by applying their negation . |
| 42 | It is sometimes said that rules in the last two categories ‘ lack the force of law ’ , that is , they are not enforceable in a court . |
| 43 | This discretion can also be used to justify refusal of leave to apply for judicial review under RSC Ord. 53 ; and so it is sometimes said that the whole judicial review jurisdiction is discretionary , not just the remedies . |
| 44 | It is sometimes said that whereas occult sciences , such as alchemy and astrology , were static in their theoretical content , modern science has been progressive . |
| 45 | Thus it is sometimes said that , had Jesus intended that women should be priests in his church , he would have chosen his mother . |
| 46 | It is sometimes said that all religion is mythological in form , and operates through concrete stories and symbols ; that religion must necessarily have what I have called a vehicle and that there can be no pure awareness of God . |
| 47 | It is sometimes said that the difference of sex is of no more significance than the difference of race . |
| 48 | Though it is sometimes said that Hilbert 's theorem killed invariant theory , this is not entirely correct . |
| 49 | It is sometimes said that the public roads laid out by the enclosure commissioners followed the lines of the medieval footpaths and bridle paths between the villages , paths that had been trodden out first in Anglo-Saxon times . |
| 50 | It is sometimes said that the offender must have been deliberately and flagrantly flouting the law . |
| 51 | It is sometimes said that our ‘ constitution ’ is now under stress as major changes occur far more rapidly than before in its written and unwritten parts . |
| 52 | Second , it is sometimes said that the pure vertical effects of integration are always positive in a welfare sense — they only become negative because of associated horizontal effects , for example as a result of a reduction in the number of downstream firms . |
| 53 | It is sometimes said that judges are entitled to make extrajudicial statements critical of the existing law and advocating reform . |
| 54 | Certainly , it is sometimes said that a claim for conspiracy gives the plaintiff procedural advantages , but the reality of this may turn on how far it is to be held on ordinary principles that instigation or procurement suffices to make a person who does not participate in the act a joint tortfeasor . |
| 55 | It is sometimes said that few young people get involved in CPRW 's work , but this is certainly not the case at our Annual Youth Environment Conference where this year , as ever , 100% of the delegates were under 21 ! |
| 56 | It is sometimes said that this appalling performance by the British economy in the early 1990s has been ‘ imported ’ from a world recession . |
| 57 | It is sometimes said that in the light of the historical tension between Umayyad Damascus and Abbasid Baghdad , things could hardly have been expected to turn out otherwise . |
| 58 | As for David Hume himself , it is sometimes said that that great Scottish philosopher disposed of the Argument from Design a century before Darwin . |
| 59 | It is sometimes expressed and is spoken of what is agreed . |
| 60 | Although it is sometimes realized that the demands of public sector accountability and decision making in a political context can serve to limit the extent to which concepts of efficiency derived from the private sector can be applied uncritically in the public sector domain , there nevertheless remains a feeling that much more could be done to improve resource utilisation . |