Example sentences of "[subord] it [is] sometimes [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is sometimes realized that the demands of public sector accountability and decision making in a political context can serve to limit the extent to which concepts of efficiency derived from the private sector can be applied uncritically in the public sector domain , there nevertheless remains a feeling that much more could be done to improve resource utilisation . |
| 2 | In prayer-rug designs this arch-shaped form is usually found at the top end of the composition , although it is sometimes employed at both ends in what are generally referred to as " double-ended " prayer rugs ( pls. 17 and 18 ) . |
| 3 | Although it is sometimes called the " magic e " , the e itself does n't change anything : it marks the fact that the word should be pronounced differently . |
| 4 | It is apparent from these factors that , although it is sometimes assumed ( by drawing on the basis of US experience , for instance ) that the main driving-force behind the establishment and growth of employers ' associations is related to market or ‘ economic ’ factors , wider international evidence suggests that a more eclectic explanation is required . |
| 5 | Although it is sometimes simulated by looking through a peephole , this gives only a crude approximation of the condition . |
| 6 | The ulcer is usually found on the glans penis or the foreskin , although it is sometimes found at the base of the shaft of the penis — the so-called ‘ condom chancre ’ . |
| 7 | It would clearly be impracticable for all of a party 's members to foregather from every corner of a region to select and rank its list candidates , so it is sometimes suggested that American style primaries should be held for this purpose . |
| 8 | The profile of this short-lived low-level blast cloud is supposed to look something like that of a clump of fir trees , so it 's sometimes described as ‘ cypressoid ’ . |
| 9 | This is a rather unsatisfactory situation , but fortunately the treatment for Candida infestation ( described below ) is fairly innocuous , so it does not matter too much if it is sometimes given unnecessarily . |
| 10 | But one is almost totally dependent on the biographical sources for such humanizing detail ; and if it is sometimes given amongst the flood of factual information , often it is not , and one is left to speculate . |
| 11 | This is important , because it is sometimes given as an objection to attitude theories that they can not make sense of subordinate ethical clauses . |
| 12 | We must be careful with this argument because it is sometimes based on anatomical studies that have used insensitive methods or only a partial consideration of the data . |
| 13 | This last kind of connection , though it is sometimes treated as a kind of cohesion ( Halliday and Hasan 1976:28–7 ) , is really too dependent upon individual experience and knowledge to be treated as a formal link . |
| 14 | Historically , engineering has had to distance itself from the sound of metal-bashing , and agriculture has become fiercely scientific and managerial ; while the obvious skill element in medicine and veterinary work only comes after a thoroughly academic grounding ( though it is sometimes pointed out rather unkindly that surgeons evolved from barbers ) . |
| 15 | Though it is sometimes said that Hilbert 's theorem killed invariant theory , this is not entirely correct . |
| 16 | The Northern Dairy Shorthorn is officially a rare breed in Britain , though it is sometimes included under the Dairy Shorthorn umbrella in that it is registered in the Coates herdbook , albeit with a separate code to identify the bloodlines . |
| 17 | Lynda Moss , editor of the RSC 's journal Methods in Organic Synthesis , said that it does not often crop up in published syntheses , though it is sometimes used as a source of in reactions as well as being a solvent . |
| 18 | ‘ I HAVE received vague but disquieting information about the inaccessibility of the Willoughbys ’ old home , ’ wrote William Dutt in 1914 , who was keen to see Parham Old Hall ( or the Moat Hall as it is sometimes called ) , before nightfall . |
| 19 | Thus the second major influence on behaviour is the reward , or payoff , as it is sometimes called , for acting in a certain way . |
| 20 | In environmental health the most important dimension of an odour is its acceptability , or ‘ hedonic tone ’ as it is sometimes called . |
| 21 | Using a voltage to control the number of mobile electrons in this layer , or ‘ induced surface channel ’ as it is sometimes called , is the basis of the device 's operation . |
| 22 | According to the Code du Vin ( a publication codifying the regulations of the INAO ) , one marc of 4,000 kilograms will yield 2,266 litres of juice , or must , as it is sometimes called . |
| 23 | In our inquiry into causation so far , we have not attended specifically to this fact of difference or asymmetry between causal items and their effects-the fact of causal priority as it is sometimes called . |
| 24 | James inaugurated the modern or as it is sometimes called , the ‘ modernist ’ novel in England , a kind of fiction which , in pursuit of a more faithful representation of reality , attenuated or eliminated altogether the authorial narrator . |
| 25 | Care management , or case management as it is sometimes called , is a concept which developed in the United States in the mid-1970s and is growing rapidly in popularity in Britain . |
| 26 | With the very poor Artificial Horizon presentation in average aircraft , the pitch attitude will be expressed in terms of the Horizon Bar thickness , or width as it is sometimes called , each attitude being the relationship of the top of the aircraft symbols wings on top of the Horizon Bar . |
| 27 | ( or Psamma arenaria as it is sometimes called , the initial letter being silent . |
| 28 | Black lead , or wad as it is sometimes called , is found in a number of places in the Lake District and has been mined for centuries at Seathwaite in Borrowdale . |
| 29 | " Methodological uniformitarianism " , as it is sometimes called , makes the simple assumption ( as in all other sciences ) of the invariance of natural laws . |
| 30 | Credit transfer , or ‘ exemption ’ as it is sometimes called , has long been recognised as part of SCOTVEC 's provision . |