Example sentences of "[conj] is sometimes [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question is interesting in part because of an erroneous answer that is sometimes given to it . |
| 2 | Holland 1983 ; Rescorla 1985 ) , a term used to describe the finding that subjects can come to respond appropriately to a CS that is sometimes reinforced and sometimes not according to whether some other event ( the occasion setter ) accompanies the target CS . |
| 3 | These differences are better explained not by that kind of analogy , but by a recognition of the complex history of the text within the history of an ancient tribe — a history that is sometimes romanticized , sometimes idealized , and in which past and present are sometimes confusingly mixed . |
| 4 | How does this square with another proposition that is sometimes put forward , that in Roman law trusts had to be set up in precatory words ? |
| 5 | In discussing the help that reading can provide in exploring and explaining emotional lives , one comes upon a clue to the disappointment that is sometimes felt with writers as diverse as Arthur Ransome and Enid Blyton . |
| 6 | Here we have an example of three or four adjacent needles tucking for four rows at the same time , creating a very interesting raised surface fabric that is sometimes called ‘ locket and block ’ because of the way the oval sections of the pattern occur between the raised blocks . |
| 7 | In the experimental fiction of our day that is sometimes called ‘ post-modernist ’ these conventions — such as the omniscient and intrusive authorial narrator — are retained in exaggerated and parodic forms that remind one of the metafictional jokes of Fielding , Sterne , Thackeray and Trollope ( one thinks for instance of Muriel Spark and John Fowles in this respect ) . |
| 8 | A story that is sometimes used to explain market opportunity concerns the managing director and marketing director of a shoe-making firm , who were visiting a less-developed country . |
| 9 | There has been one very disturbing factor in keeping this particular type of fish , and that has been discovering the incredible cruelty that is sometimes used in order to increase the sale of them . |
| 10 | The catfish that is sometimes suggested is carnivorous and pugnacious and generally creates havoc . |
| 11 | An obvious point , perhaps , but one that is sometimes overlooked for the sake of explanatory convenience . |
| 12 | One other possibility that is sometimes considered if a camera is available in an institution is local production of teaching materials . |
| 13 | Len possessed that amazing ability that is sometimes found in footballers , to ‘ hang ’ in the air for a fraction of a second , so enabling him to obtain greater power and better direction from the ensuing header . |
| 14 | Claiming that natural processes are carried out by ‘ god ’ and then further claiming that evidence of the process is proof of the independent and prior existence of the ‘ god ’ , is an example of the ‘ circular logic ’ that is sometimes advanced as proof , and often can be quite difficult to expose for the fraud that it is . |
| 15 | Furthermore , since at this time Islam was pursuing a policy of particular openness towards other religions , less of a barrier existed than is sometimes assumed . |
| 16 | The Woodvilles ' personal following was thus smaller than is sometimes assumed . |
| 17 | A celebrated passage of Aristotle 's Politics ( 1313b38 ) proves less than is sometimes assumed . |
| 18 | The Woodvilles ' personal following was thus smaller than is sometimes assumed . |
| 19 | The ultimate sanction a country can levy — nationalisation ( expropriation ) of operations is not unknown , but is less frequent than is sometimes believed . |
| 20 | Throughout much of urban Spain the lower-middle class , whilst larger than is sometimes suggested , was engaged in relatively small-scale economic activities involving little in the way of enterprise : family-based manufacturing , localized commerce , a primitive service sector , and not least important the buying , selling and leasing of land — a major middle-class preoccupation since the disentailment of the Church 's landed property in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 21 | Glass and enamel tesserae , for , are uncommon in Britain — although they do occur more frequently than is sometimes suggested ( Boon 1974 , 345 ; Neal 1976 , 243 ) . |
| 22 | It calls for physical and mental reaction and is sometimes affected for good or bad by our emotions . |
| 23 | ‘ The tutor-organiser is on a par with them ; the voluntary officer feels — and is sometimes made to feel — inferior . ’ |
| 24 | It can easily become a cause of friction , and is sometimes made the scapegoat for disagreement and discontent in other areas of a congregation 's life . |
| 25 | ‘ Legal theory ’ is sometimes taken as being synonymous with ‘ jurisprudence ’ and is sometimes regarded as concerning itself with a narrower range of questions — in particular , What is the nature of law ? |
| 26 | Much of this care is not voluntary ; it is enforced by lack of other services and is sometimes resented by those doing the caring . |
| 27 | This benefit can be direct or indirect and is sometimes referred to by lawyers as ‘ consideration ’ . |
| 28 | In part it is simply descriptive of the employment foundations of the economy , and is sometimes related to theories of economic development which argue that national economies evolve through a series of stages dominated in turn by agricuIture , manufacturing and services . |
| 29 | The gate start is an alternative to conventional line starting and is sometimes used to start large fleets . |
| 30 | Grass is indeed a symbol of what is short-lived , and is sometimes used of mankind 's transitoriness . |