Example sentences of "as it [is] sometimes [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | Thus the second major influence on behaviour is the reward , or payoff , as it is sometimes called , for acting in a certain way . |
| 3 | In environmental health the most important dimension of an odour is its acceptability , or ‘ hedonic tone ’ as it is sometimes called . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ( or Psamma arenaria as it is sometimes called , the initial letter being silent . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | " Methodological uniformitarianism " , as it is sometimes called , makes the simple assumption ( as in all other sciences ) of the invariance of natural laws . |
| 13 | Credit transfer , or ‘ exemption ’ as it is sometimes called , has long been recognised as part of SCOTVEC 's provision . |
| 14 | We then move into a short period of dramatic play ( or " busy time " as it is sometimes called ) in which each of the groups go about their business , which they greatly enjoy — until frustrations begin to creep in . |
| 15 | This is not , as it is sometimes believed to be , a matter of crude protectionism ; it is a measure of Japanese difference , and has to be recognized as such . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , in the course of the twentieth century , following the experience of various forms of dictatorship , some of which have developed from socialist revolutions , this distinction has been overlaid by another , between ‘ totalitarianism ’ and ‘ democracy ’ , or as it is sometimes expressed , between one-party and multi-party systems . |
| 17 | Section 61 empowers the SIB ( by virtue of delegated powers conferred on the Secretary of State ) to apply to the court for , inter alia , a restitution order ( or , as it is sometimes referred to , a ‘ disgorgement order ’ ) requiring any firm who infringes , inter alia , the SIB 's conduct of business rules , to disgorge their profits . |
| 18 | This is , perhaps , the closest that social science has come to pure " empiricism " or , as it is sometimes referred to , " vulgar fact gathering " . |
| 19 | Is this a very one-sided picture , as it is sometimes claimed to be ? |
| 20 | But it would be a mistake to imagine that the anchorage was a tiny , smelly little room , as it is sometimes depicted . |
| 21 | If the applicant for a judicial remedy could have pursued a non-judicial remedy but has failed to do so , this may give a court a ground for refusing a judicial remedy : the law requires the ‘ exhaustion of alternative remedies ’ as it is sometimes put . |
| 22 | Whiting 's or Whitting 's as it is sometimes spelt has a name that seems to have come down through generations , and one authority tempts to suggest that it may be of Saxon period . |
| 23 | The reading lexicon ( or ‘ visual input lexicon ’ as it is sometimes known ) contains our knowledge of written English word forms . |
| 24 | Or , as it is sometimes switched round in homophobic ( or just careless ) thought : the victim is somehow the same as the aggressor and hence in some vague sense complicit with the aggression . |