Example sentences of "it sometimes [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's no danger of the river rising so fast it floods the course as it sometimes does but sadly as you can see , rain overnight and it 's raining now . |
| 2 | It sometimes helps if you choose something you have not done before either , but which interests you , so that you can share the activity on equal terms . |
| 3 | But it sometimes helps if you remind key people which side their bread is buttered on , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 4 | It sometimes happens that the wrong is so closely connected with a contract that the enforcement of liability for the wrong would in effect amount to an enforcement of the contract . |
| 5 | The poll asked : ‘ In building roads it sometimes happens that roads have to be built through or across sites of natural beauty or historical interest . |
| 6 | It sometimes happens that a business is well disposed to the idea of partnership but it feels it has little to offer ; just to offer time may be very helpful and can bring dividends for both the partners . |
| 7 | It sometimes happens that the Pump Wagon 's move means it has to traverse terrain which it can not cross . |
| 8 | It sometimes happens that you want to find a particular book but you have forgotten , or never knew , the name of the author . |
| 9 | It sometimes happens that , after tenders have been submitted , tenderers are advised of the highest figures and either are asked to submit , or themselves insist on submitting , an even higher one . |
| 10 | It sometimes felt that she was blushing all the time . |
| 11 | It sometimes seemed that the Government was less interested in broadcasting from the point of view of fulfilling the three aims mentioned in the plan than in what it could and should do to publicize its own policies and activities . |
| 12 | It is a risky form of self-defence , putting the animal completely at the mercy of its attacker 's jaws , but it sometimes works and the bluffer escapes . |
| 13 | The king supplemented these sources of patronage with papal provisions on behalf of his candidates , but it sometimes happened that the royal clerk , with or without a provision , found himself forestalled in a benefice by another providee . |
| 14 | Since Legnani first danced the famous thirty-two fouettës in Swan Lake , it sometimes seems that choreographers lacking ideas for a spectacular finish to a solo , send the dancer spinning faster and faster round the stage , or set them centre stage and make them turn with increasingly difficult poses . |
| 15 | Even music is so often used as a ‘ background noise ’ in shops and restaurants that it sometimes seems that we have forgotten how to listen to it . |
| 16 | It sometimes seems that individuals have a startling impact on this pattern which can only be understood by appealing to specific psychological traits . |
| 17 | For it sometimes seems that men and women inhabit different emotional worlds . |
| 18 | It sometimes seems that there is no such place as Dublin . |
| 19 | Often this criticism is less than coherent , and it sometimes seems that a principal reason for the volume of protest is simply that rates are an unusually transparent tax ; there are few other cases where individuals are personally and directly responsible for making payments ’ . |
| 20 | In Kenya , it sometimes seems as though the main issues regarding ownership have not really been foreign vs . |