Example sentences of "[adv] it [is] sometimes [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | So it is sometimes called a " history of salvation " . |
2 | This discretion can also be used to justify refusal of leave to apply for judicial review under RSC Ord. 53 ; and so it is sometimes said that the whole judicial review jurisdiction is discretionary , not just the remedies . |
3 | So it 's sometimes called the Scottish or Irish tonsure . |
4 | Thus it is sometimes said that , had Jesus intended that women should be priests in his church , he would have chosen his mother . |
5 | Now it is sometimes argued that the Reform Bill was deliberately framed so as to preclude the threat of a revolution founded on such an alignment , one in which a middle-class bourgeoisie would have provided the leadership and the lower classes the sheer mass , the numbers needed to carry it out ; and shrewdly calculated to concede just so much as was needed to reduce to a manageable scale the gathering political unrest which might have led to just such a convulsion . |
6 | Even when this was not the overt purpose , research results have been used to justify particular aspects of women 's subordination : thus even today it is sometimes said that girls do n't become engineers because they lack spatial ability , or that their relative lack of aggression makes them less effective leaders . |
7 | Today it is sometimes visited by sportsmen in search of wild goats . |
8 | Yin and yang ; animus and anima ; the pairing turns up so often , not surprisingly it is sometimes taken for a universal principle of human thought and categorisation . |
9 | Thus it is claimed that God is perfectly just , where we are imperfectly so — indeed it is sometimes said that God is ‘ justice ’ or ‘ justice itself ’ . |
10 | The discharge may be thicker than usual , indeed it is sometimes described by the patient as being ‘ curd-like ’ . |