Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] sometimes a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The progress department is sometimes part of the production department and sometimes a separate entity . |
| 2 | There is also an adult with them at all times , often a parent or sometimes a social worker . |
| 3 | Yet Leicestershire also has many parishes where the village has disappeared from the landscape , leaving perhaps only the manor house or squire 's hall and sometimes a forlorn and decaying church . |
| 4 | He was a muncher and sometimes a devourer . |
| 5 | At a certain point in the ceremony the rhythm of the weeping began to change and the tears were replaced by laughter and sometimes a kind of ecstatic , even erotic frenzy . |
| 6 | When we went ashore , the transport was not always an air-conditioned coach but sometimes a rickety taxi , a horse cab or even a farm trailer hauled by a tractor . |
| 7 | It takes skill and judgement and sometimes a compromise is not possible — you may have to choose one over the other . |
| 8 | Occasionally the initiative comes from local sources , an enquiry or request for information about WEA provision and sometimes a keen local person will take upon himself the responsibility of calling a meeting . |
| 9 | But it comes down to , first of all , whether it 's sensible to borrow against assets , and all of us do if we 're lucky enough to own our own homes we tend to have borrowed either our first mortgage or sometimes a second against it , and we make our own judgement , and I see there are some suggestions on how the Government spotted this with regard to schools in suggesting that perhaps schools could raise money by mortgaging their school buildings , of course |
| 10 | Suits , coats , dresses , boots , shoes , bicycles , tools , furniture , companion sets , china , ornaments , pictures , stuffed parrots , music-boxes and linen were only some of the things that caught the eye and sometimes an elbow . |
| 11 | They tend to be alkaline , with soluble salts at the plant-soil interface and sometimes a brown mineral horizon below . |
| 12 | The coroner orders an investigation , usually including a post-mortem examination and sometimes an inquest . |
| 13 | Although they are a standard device in parliamentary elections in most of the democracies of continental Europe , they are an abomination for the evangelists of the STV and sometimes a stumbling block for less prejudiced supporters of electoral reform . |
| 14 | The stipes articulates with the distal border of the cardo and is sometimes divided into a basistipes and a dististipes. it bears a lateral palpifer and sometimes an inner sclerite , the subgalea ( or parastipes ) . |
| 15 | Sometimes you come back as a beetle and sometimes a man . |
| 16 | He tells you he is a farm labourer or sometimes a brickie . |
| 17 | The mantra is a special word or sometimes a phrase given to the meditator by the TM instructor . |
| 18 | Every so often there was a little crab corpse or a twist of sand thrown up by a sandworm or a streak of brilliant green weed like the hair of a water nymph and sometimes a smooth small rock and beside it a still , clear , tiny pool with mussels , blue black and pearly . |
| 19 | Sensitive to open air and sometimes a sensation of breathlessness as if they were passing rapidly through the air . |
| 20 | If you did n't have your fortnightly visit you were allowed a letter in lieu or sometimes a phone call . |
| 21 | Structuralist Marxism originated in France in the 1960s , especially in the work of the communist philosopher Louis Althusser , although other key writers have included Poulantzas ( who sometimes uses the arbiter model and sometimes a functional approach ) . |
| 22 | If your experiment involves other people ( e.g. if you are comparing different readers ' responses ) , you need to consider ethical issues which arise , including ( a ) getting their permission to use the results ; ( b ) showing them the results and explaining them ; ( c ) not using their names when you report the experiment ( even if they have given permission for this , there is unlikely to be any point ) ; ( d ) the ethical problem that sometimes an experiment is best conducted if the test subjects do n't know what it is for ; that is , if there is a " secret agenda " . |
| 23 | They slip and slide against each other — somewhat ponderously , since they proceed at no more than a foot a year and sometimes a great deal less . |
| 24 | And now those with a sense of adventure and sometimes a good pair of sea legs can join in the fun on board the former lifeboat . |
| 25 | HE has been called spiv , ticket tout , sport 's shadiest wheeler-dealer and sometimes a lot worse . |
| 26 | Sheltered accommodation provides the independance reg=independence of your own home with the security of an alarm system and sometimes a warden to help when necessary . |
| 27 | Change of control clauses ( commonly found in software licences ) entitle one party to a contract to terminate the contract if there is a change in ownership of the other contracting party or sometimes a change in ownership of the holding company of that contracting party . |
| 28 | This eliminates the traditional need to get things re-set — in PageMaker it 's a trivial task although sometimes a little tedious . |
| 29 | Instead , it sets up shame , hatred and sometimes a complicated sexual response , which is not we want for our children . |
| 30 | Endowment policies are not always appropriately matched to the client and sometimes a low-cost endowment would suffice instead of a full endowment policy , or a term insurance policy would be more appropriate than an endowment . |