Example sentences of "it [is] sometimes [verb] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sometimes argued that studies of working-class leisure have concentrated on male activities simply because leisure , a fairly new notion in any case , was very much a male affair in this period . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is sometimes said that butlers only truly exist in England . |
| 4 | It is sometimes said that judges are entitled to make extrajudicial statements critical of the existing law and advocating reform . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is sometimes suggested that women 's legal rights are fairly minor and have done little to improve the position of women in society . |
| 7 | It is sometimes found that operations to remove congenital cataracts ( soft opacities in the lens ) when a child is of school age are disappointing in that full vision is not effective because the appropriate stage in development of visual perception has been passed while the opacities were still present . |