Example sentences of "as is sometimes [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " They are not , as is sometimes said , like lost souls in limbo ; they are fellow travellers through a life which is impervious to most of their choices … |
| 2 | Applying the opposite rudder can not possibly cause the spin to reverse as is sometimes stated , unless the pilot is keeping the stick right back . |
| 3 | The reason for this is not , as is sometimes stated , to do with older women who insist on maintaining traditional rituals . |
| 4 | In spring , indeed , there is a planktonic ‘ bloom ’ of algae ; not a pathological bloom , a sign of sickness , as is sometimes observed in lakes , but a natural reawakening of life . |
| 5 | by no means all farmers are as antipathetic to the conservationist case as is sometimes assumed , but eventually they must all make a living . |
| 6 | Whether , as is sometimes asserted , the development of more rapid communications , above all the telegraph , greatly increased the control of foreign ministries over diplomats in the field is at least debatable . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Tip : Decor materials can be sealed with matt or gloss polyurethane vanish , as is sometimes done to bogwood . |
| 9 | If , as is sometimes done , things are assimilated to events , we can speak of particulars as events , and of the latter as being " temporal " in the sense that every event exhibits a pattern of change in some direction , and can be said to occur simultaneously with , or before , or after , some other event . |
| 10 | Furthermore , it is , I shall argue , no less mistaken to regard experiences , as is sometimes done , as being analogous to " logical states " of certain sophisticated machines ; unless such machines are endowed with so many human characteristics ( including the capacity of " empathetic imagination " ) that a comparison becomes trivial , and the word " machine " no longer means what it ordinarily means . |
| 11 | It is not of course sufficient to obtain an order to say that the facts alleged are wrong , as is sometimes done , because that is a matter to be decided on a hearing . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Certainly there is no need , as is sometimes supposed ( Thorp , 1980 , pp. 43–4 ) , to consider whole mental states in connection with the relation between the mental and the neural . |
| 14 | The popular culture of racism is neither so unified , nor the positions within it so fixed as is sometimes supposed . |
| 15 | As soon as we turn our attention to the source of police errors we find that they do not , in the main , spring from malpractice , ill will or even slackness , as is sometimes supposed . |
| 16 | Indeed , archaeologists now believe it was due to agricultural mismanagement combined with a booming population , for investigation of a major palace in the site at Copan , Honduras , has revealed that there was only a small contingent of specialist workers employed in constructing the elaborate structure , in other words that this was not enough to overburden the economy as is sometimes alleged to be the cause of the collapse of that civilization . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Emperor Tetras are a quiet , peaceful fish and not as delicate as is sometimes thought . |
| 19 | First there is another objection to be considered : do deviant identities and sexualities really denaturalize through theatrical parody as straightforwardly as is sometimes suggested ? |
| 20 | It is important to be clear that the people of Denmark did not vote for a modification of the Treaty , as is sometimes suggested . |
| 21 | What needs to be done is not as hard to conceive of as is sometimes suggested . |
| 22 | He did not see Crosland hinting at wanting to ‘ nationalize ’ or exert control over the universities , and he did not see the DES as being ‘ jealous of the universities as is sometimes suggested ’ . |
| 23 | Marjorie Thompson , the campaign 's general secretary , favours a ‘ cultural transformation of the peace movement ’ , allowing CND to campaign about the impact of the militarisation of our society on the environment , support democratisation and human rights worldwide , and oppose all unjust wars ( but not , as is sometimes implied , take the line of uncompromising pacifism ) . |
| 24 | Wilberforce was not the only representative of Anglican opinion , and even he was not as obscurantist as is sometimes implied . |