Example sentences of "[that] 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 . |