Example sentences of "have sometimes been " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the pressure for productivity has sometimes been remorseless . |
| 2 | An urbane text , it nevertheless discloses a violent scenario — social , psychic , and sexual ( what has sometimes been mistaken for decadence ) . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've had a number of opportunities and taking them , particularly in the oil industry , has sometimes been a desperate gamble . ’ |
| 4 | Promotion of the state-owned sector has generally gone hand in hand with promotion of the indigenous , i.e. African , private sector , although in ‘ socialist ’ countries the scope of the latter has sometimes been consciously restricted . |
| 5 | Ownership has sometimes been transferred into local hands ( private or state ) while the original owners have continued as managers on a financial basis which has frequently been unrelated to their performance . |
| 6 | The dowry system has sometimes been considered as an effect of the sexual division of labour where , although women do some of the heaviest work ( servicing labour and producing it ) , these roles are considered less important than those of men . |
| 7 | There can be little doubt that at the time Constantine took control of the Western empire , Christianity can have been the religion of only a minority , though perhaps not so tiny a minority as has sometimes been thought . |
| 8 | The last quality is interesting because it has sometimes been suggested that his music-making lacks humour , one of those generalizing statements that , typically , posits a judgement without bothering to examine the evidence . |
| 9 | In the past , it has sometimes been unduly prettified by directors , but today there is rather more danger of excessive uglification , of overdoing the grimness . |
| 10 | Now that Mr Major has won his own mandate , it is important to understand that , though the Conservative Party has sometimes been successful because it has stolen the Labour Party 's clothes , this is not the reason for its success on this occasion . |
| 11 | Cognitive therapy has sometimes been accused of being only applicable to the ‘ intellectual ’ client . |
| 12 | The public 's dislike of unprincipled press behaviour has sometimes been expressed in the award of erratically large libel damages . |
| 13 | They were built in what has sometimes been called classical bankers ' style , more akin to London 's Waterloo or Boston South than the Beaux-Arts style . |
| 14 | It has sometimes been suggested that there are groups of children , children of ethnic minorities , for example , or children who are extremely socially deprived , who fail at school , who play truant and give up all attempt to succeed , because the content of the curriculum is totally alien to them , unfamiliar , and therefore irrelevant in a strong sense . |
| 15 | This is not a radical change , though it has sometimes been represented as such . |
| 16 | And we must avoid dismissing a particular policy wholesale simply because the pretence of it has sometimes been used to justify iniquity . |
| 17 | Perhaps for this reason above any other , aromatherapy has sometimes been dismissed out of hand by a few dyed-in-the-wool traditionalists because they believe a certain amount of discomfort must be felt if it 's to do us any good ! |
| 18 | This method is adequate as a system of nationally consistent statistical recording but as a feeder to influence social policy legislation from the experience of clients , the recording system has sometimes been inadequate . |
| 19 | An underlying theme of change since the early 1980s which has sometimes been buried in the overall conflict over spending levels has been a move towards the privatization of services : that is , the replacement of previously direct local government provision by the provision of services by commercial enterprises under contract to local authorities . |
| 20 | In their defence , however , it has to be admitted that the drafting of contracts has not always been perfect , particularly in the simpler forms , where clarity has sometimes been sacrificed to brevity . |
| 21 | It has sometimes been suggested that if you feel easily intimidated by an interviewer , and therefore are paralysed by nerves , you should imagine him ? her in a ludicrous situation , such as sitting in the Albert Hall with no clothes on . |
| 22 | In the past , because children have been able to chant numbers in order ( 1 , 2 , 3 … ) , it has sometimes been assumed that they understood them and so were ready for sums . |
| 23 | This was a very different type of nationalism from that which had produced the United States of America , and one which it is not easy to explain , as has sometimes been attempted , in terms of Gandhi 's attachment to traditional Hindu notions of self-purification . |
| 24 | The Express dubs the Grant-Livingstone team the ‘ nightmare ticket ’ , and reminds us that Grant has sometimes been known to the tabloids as ‘ Barmy Bernie ’ . |
| 25 | And while they charge the teacher with more responsibility than has sometimes been customary in the past , they also bring corresponding rewards in the way of job satisfaction and self-esteem . |
| 26 | It was no ordinary train , but one made up of fifty-seven carriages and hauled by no less than six locomotives that ran the fifty miles from London to the ‘ Daphne ’ of the Metropolis , as Brighton has sometimes been called ( to quote from The London Illustrated News of 7 December 1884 ) ; the journey took four and a half hours . |
| 27 | The weather was not wild and stormy , as has sometimes been suggested , but mild for the time of year . |
| 28 | Paul 's teaching has sometimes been unfairly caricatured as being on the bosses ' side . |
| 29 | Moreover , there has sometimes been reason to doubt the relevance of laws-of-war thinking to the important objective of strategic stability in relations between the nuclear powers . |
| 30 | While this has sometimes been aimed at the complete subversion and overthrow of the established political order , as in the case of the Bader-Meinhoff group in West Germany and the Italian Red Brigades , more recently it is concern over nuclear weapons , and specifically the installation of cruise missiles that has engendered extra-constitutional forms of dissent both in this country and abroad . |