Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] is sometimes " in BNC.
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| 1 | This upward jerk can be very painful and is sometimes enough to dishearten the attacker and allow the hedgehog to scuttle away to safety without having to resort to the passive rolling-up defence . |
| 2 | The popular culture of racism is neither so unified , nor the positions within it so fixed as is sometimes supposed . |
| 3 | Emperor Tetras are a quiet , peaceful fish and not as delicate as is sometimes thought . |
| 4 | This benefit can be direct or indirect and is sometimes referred to by lawyers as ‘ consideration ’ . |
| 5 | The ultimate sanction a country can levy — nationalisation ( expropriation ) of operations is not unknown , but is less frequent than is sometimes believed . |
| 6 | Details may vary and certain climatic zones may produce more individual features than others , as was suggested above for the glacial and arid climatic zones , but it seems to be doubtful whether fluvially controlled landscapes formed in different climates are as distinctive as is sometimes maintained ( Stoddart , 1969 ) . |
| 7 | However , although these disanalogies were fundamental , Darwin 's theorizing had not taken him out of the causal , lawful , deterministic Newtonian universe , into one as irreducibly acausal and absolutely probabilistic as is sometimes thought implicit in quantum mechanics . |
| 8 | Back in Britain , the performance of the four regional companies — the Great Western , the Southern , the London Midland & Scottish and the London & North Eastern — that were nationalised in 1948 was by no means as dismal as is sometimes claimed . |