Example sentences of "which sometimes " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also sell vast amounts of Draught Bass , which sometimes comes from Burton-on-Trent and at other times from Tadcaster . |
| 2 | This is a double responsibility : two responsibilities which sometimes are not compatible . |
| 3 | There is a steady current of physicality in their play which sometimes spills over into outright violence . |
| 4 | Full-length games are edited down to show the highlights in a way which sometimes irritates the purist . |
| 5 | These mills , which sometimes have a tarred brickwork plinth with the wooden structure painted white , are more frequently converted into houses than the less enduring post mills . |
| 6 | They 're obsessed by the shit out of which we 're shaped ( surgery ) , the shit that could befall us ( horrible accidents ) , the shit in our souls ( the drives and impulses we suppress and expel in order to constitute ourselves as normal , but which sometimes break free in perversion or psychosis ) . |
| 7 | It 's this marvellous giving and taking and sharing which provides these marvellous explosions which we call inspired moments which sometimes result in a work of art . |
| 8 | I have undertaken a lot of work with bereaved people which after a while could reach profound levels , but the first stage ( which sometimes seemed neverending ) was the misery the person felt at the loss of a household object or a pet bird . |
| 9 | The ‘ Fabian Quarterly ’ , making the same point , added that it was ‘ pleasantly free from that form of local megalomania which sometimes mars otherwise praiseworthy local efforts ’ . |
| 10 | The other teenagers he meets there are mainly criminals — thieves , prostitutes and drug pedlars — and most of them are members of the infamous teenage gangs which sometimes turn the city into a battleground . |
| 11 | Roman sculptors appear to have made use of only a few set measuring points , which sometimes survive , raised off the surface like pimples . |
| 12 | His success depended , as so often happens in research , on entirely fortuitous events , of the kind which sometimes contribute as much as careful planning to the attainment of desired objectives . |
| 13 | A caricature of the city gent was achieved by the combination of crombie , bowler hat and black umbrella , which sometimes had a sharpened ferrule . |
| 14 | Wetlands under threat have included a variety of landscapes : swamps of tall reed or reed sweet-grass ; marshes of rush and sedge , which sometimes develop into scrub of willow and bog myrtle ; fens , whose lush vegetation is nourished by alkaline groundwater , and which range from open pools , often the remains of peat cutting , to grazed beds of meadowsweet and iris , grading in turn to the wet woodlands known as alder ‘ carr ’ ; mires , such as the mosses of the North-West , whose deep peatlands support sphagnum moss and heather , scattered with glades of birch , the favourite haunt of nightjars . |
| 15 | Once upon a time , there was waking , which was slow and painful , and then quite a long period , replete with chances and triumphs and defeats and risks , which sometimes , though not always , ended in lunch . |
| 16 | At times she felt overwhelmed by his personality , which sometimes bordered on piety . |
| 17 | Live the natural way : No , I am not suggesting that you return to some sort of Tarzan and Jane existence , simply that you try and reduce your dependence on those mechanical things which sometimes seem to threaten to take over our lives . |
| 18 | Driving was easy from the spacious cab , except when the electric brake failed , which sometimes happened ! |
| 19 | Although the existence of the statutes indicates certain offences which sometimes creep into public life , it is most gratifying to note that amongst the many tens of thousands of councillors serving voluntarily year by year in this country a prosecution under this Act is very rare indeed . |
| 20 | It is due to blood poisoning ( septicaemia ) which sometimes goes with meningitis , particularly the meningococcal strain . |
| 21 | This is inflammation and infection of the breast which sometimes follows cracked nipples and shows itself by pain , redness of a part or the whole breast , swelling , and fever . |
| 22 | Too often , such provision tended to focus exclusively on slow learners , and took the form of ‘ remedial ’ provision which tended not to remedy and which sometimes created , in the return to the ‘ normal ’ curriculum , extra problems for the child . |
| 23 | And finally , several collections of pellets from corvids and gulls , which sometimes eat small mammals , were investigated , but in general these were found not to contain small mammal bones . |
| 24 | MANY of Britain 's industrial towns and cities are surrounded by wilderness , which sometimes has acquired the official designation of ‘ urban common ’ ; but all of them have wasteland within their bounds which may be no less deserving of such recognition . |
| 25 | One is to stay together and live ‘ to make each other miserable , a habit which sometimes becomes too strong to break . ’ |
| 26 | Some of these may be the ‘ flip side ’ of your positive qualities , but which sometimes get out of control . |
| 27 | If your widowed parent had an unhappy married life , you will have a rather different problem on your hands , for hers will be a special kind of bereavement which will need great understanding and respect for its reality , which sometimes such widows do not receive . |
| 28 | And you end up writing guitar music which sometimes is okay , but after a couple of records I 'd written enough guitar music for a while . |
| 29 | These brands obscured those placed on the animal for the purpose of identification , which sometimes included caste brands as well as the name of the owner and his village . |
| 30 | Many shoots develop from its stem , which sometimes grows horizontally . |