Example sentences of "as sometimes [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The widespread use of pesticides , notably insecticides , in modem farming has probably also affected the food supply available to birds as well as sometimes causing widespread deaths among them . |
| 2 | But documents can be dangerous things if used without care and if , as sometimes happens , they are used for partial and selective purposes . |
| 3 | As sometimes happens with pianists of exceptional technical ability there can often be a sense in their playing that they are trying hard not to run away with themselves in the easy passages . |
| 4 | The object is to promote stem growth in the desired direction line , but this will not be achieved if , as sometimes happens , a dormant eye emerges as two or three buds , or as not infrequently occurs on too weakly pruned stems , growth emerges in a completely wrong direction from lower buds . |
| 5 | Normally , clients will want to support strong seasonal sales , but if , as sometimes happens , market seasonality has been created by promotional activity , it may make sense to try to even out the cycle by advertising in the low season . |
| 6 | Knowledge about the particular problems exercising his colleagues has a practical importance if , as sometimes happens , an officer is called out in an emergency to a pollution in another man 's patch . |
| 7 | If , as sometimes happens , anger is aroused , the woman 's claim is lost and she should save her tears . |
| 8 | Testers ' comments : Pamela : ‘ It was a bit hard to understand how to put it on at first , but we were both very comfortable , and the baby did n't seem to droop down as sometimes happens . ’ |
| 9 | The Ti'ko article , as you will have seen by now , appeared in the December issue — we ran out of space , as sometimes happens on a busy magazine . |
| 10 | ‘ But losing our water supply , as sometimes happens , can be worse . |
| 11 | In Trevor Wilson 's words , it was the ‘ Indian summer of the old Liberal Party ’ ; and , as sometimes happens with Indian summers , it was at least as spectacular as anything that had happened during the real one … |
| 12 | It is called ‘ aid to the civil power ’ and as sometimes happens T.A . |
| 13 | If we have a night sitting service , an elderly person may not have to go in hospital if they are temporarily gone off their legs as sometimes happens . |
| 14 | That is em if nothing happens , if the survivor , if the person being abused does n't do anything , then the abuse carries on and the abuser y'know continues to regularly perform this these acts of abuse , whatever they might be , and erm stopping it is something that er usually involves the , in inverted commas , victim , taking control of the situ well no no well not exactly taking control but trying to do something about it er making more fuss about it to other people , moving out of the house , as sometimes happens when people are adolescents . |
| 15 | A seller 's conveyancer must be alert not only to supply copies of all known restrictions , but to guard against the absence of copies of old restrictions , as sometimes occurs . |
| 16 | The SHP in 1990 criticized government policing tactics as sometimes taking on the " dimensions of a state terror " . |
| 17 | One of the interesting things about college studies is the dumbness of the student — using the word in its accurate sense and not as sometimes applied rudely to blondes ! |
| 18 | The driver of the truck must now have assumed he was petrified with fright , unable to think , maybe even asleep as sometimes happened . |
| 19 | As sometimes happened she awoke equally suddenly . |
| 20 | If you say , as sometimes judges in Court cases do , sometimes child abusers do , oh she led me on , she was eager and willing , oh she erm , well judges do n't actually say it in the first person , do they , usually ? |
| 21 | The point is not , as sometimes supposed , that the sovereign had been made divisible . |
| 22 | ‘ The mineral is described , as sometimes lying in the mine in form resembling a tree . |