Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] sometimes [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this is the first time the guest has used the hotel a guest history card is sometimes created ( see Fig. 3.35 ) . |
| 2 | The rise of German national consciousness is sometimes said to date from the philosopher Fichte 's Addresses to the German Nation , delivered under Napoleonic occupation in 1806 . |
| 3 | The result is sometimes known as " half mens rea " . |
| 4 | However , as Parkes ( 1982a ) points out , morale-boosting optimism is sometimes taken to absurd lengths , and much of the undoubted success of the hospice approach to the care of terminally ill patients stems from the recognition of this fact . |
| 5 | Elsewhere the 70 m ( 230 ft ) terrace is sometimes attributed to the first interglacial period . |
| 6 | Sport is a positive , exhilarating force in the lives of those whose attentions and commitments it commands ; but the complexity of the force is sometimes lost on its practitioners and observers . |
| 7 | The night-time thermosphere is sometimes called the cryosphere ( = ‘ cold sphere ’ ) . |
| 8 | The role of pension funds in this outflow is often taken as indicative for , since the mid-1960s , pension funds have become the main channel for employees ' long-term savings and their overseas investment is sometimes seen as a ‘ diversion ’ of savings that could otherwise have been used to finance productive investment in British industry . |
| 9 | ( The rate of return on an additional investment is sometimes called the marginal efficiency of investment or MEI . ) |
| 10 | Investment is sometimes thought of as the most dynamic element in the economy — it probably accounts for much of the cyclical instability in the economy and is an important determinant of economic growth . |
| 11 | The golist is sometimes known as a thesaurus and , indeed , is a form of natural language thesaurus . |
| 12 | This term is sometimes called the external energy . |
| 13 | That term is sometimes used loosely to refer to travellers and persons of nomadic habits , and in Mills v. Cooper a Divisional Court accorded the term such a meaning for the purposes of the Highways Act , which made it an offence for a gypsy to encamp on a highway . |
| 14 | For this reason the suspension capability of a detergent is sometimes referred to as rinseability . |
| 15 | Payment for the work is sometimes met by individuals , sometimes by kings , sometimes by organised churches and sometimes by nations through the taxpayers . |
| 16 | Failing to set the handbrake is sometimes detected when it is too late i.e. when a vehicle has been parked unattended and has then begun to move and run away downhill , perhaps resulting in an accident . |
| 17 | Birth spacing is sometimes used synonymously with birth timing ( see intervals ) , but usually it refers to efforts aiming to achieve the " proper " ( healthy , economic or convenient ) timing of births either consciously ( by planning and controlling the timing of births ) or in accordance with traditions ( by following customs relevant to breastfeeding and post-partum abstinence which assure the " proper " spacing ) , and the results of such efforts as they are manifested in the birth intervals . |
| 18 | The identification of child with parent is sometimes mirrored by identification which the parent feels with the child . |
| 19 | The law recognizes , through various defence doctrines and through the instruction to prosecutorial authorities to refrain from prosecution in certain cases where formally a person is guilty , that disobedience to law is sometimes justified . |
| 20 | The study of the discipline does not often include a study of its own academic evolution ; indeed , one suspects than an ahistorical attitude is sometimes projected by lecturers , as if the discipline had always existed in some vague Platonic sense , and could not possibly not have been there . |
| 21 | In a day to deity existence , however , greatness is sometimes thrust upon him . |
| 22 | A general degree is sometimes seen as an alternative for students who are not up to honours standard ; this is largely though not entirely the case with the Scottish ordinary degree . |
| 23 | The ERM is sometimes justified as a means for beating the currency speculator . |
| 24 | A 45° plan oblique projection is sometimes referred to as an axonometric projection . |
| 25 | The Palestinians , many of whom are desperate as a result of roots in the poverty of the refugee camps , hold few cards other than their determination not to be subdued and the ‘ armed struggle ’ through which this determination is sometimes expressed ; what they seek is recognition of some form of statehood on Palestinian soil . |
| 26 | Chapter 6 looks at how expert determination is sometimes used alongside arbitration or litigation in the same contract , and considers the growing trend for its use for general , non-technical dispute resolution . |
| 27 | When emeralds began to be cut , lapidaries found that their qualities were likely to be displayed to best advantage by step-cutting , and this method is still widely used for this stone , though brilliant cutting is sometimes applied . |
| 28 | The intertidal zone is sometimes referred to as the littoral zone , but I use the term eulittoral . |
| 29 | The choice of such an engine is sometimes questioned . |
| 30 | Hydrochloric acid is sometimes replaced by nitric or sulphuric acid . |