Example sentences of "[is] sometimes use " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highly aromatic herb Moxa is sometimes used . |
| 2 | A story that is sometimes used to explain market opportunity concerns the managing director and marketing director of a shoe-making firm , who were visiting a less-developed country . |
| 3 | It is said that yaks ' milk is sometimes used and in Italy buffalos ' milk is made into cheese . |
| 4 | Potassium salt is sometimes used as a substitute , or mixed with sodium salt . |
| 5 | This is sometimes used in mechanised cleaning where a cold water rinse can facilitate the removal of detergent from a system . |
| 6 | The ploughing in of a quick-growing crop as ‘ green manure ’ ( mustard , rye , tares are suitable ) is sometimes used to increase fertility and improve soil structure . |
| 7 | The gate start is an alternative to conventional line starting and is sometimes used to start large fleets . |
| 8 | The word ‘ patronymic ’ is sometimes used as an easy synonym when referring to any surname , but its meaning is more limited than that , for a proper application restricts it to describing those names descending from fathers or ancestors . |
| 9 | It is possible that this expression is sometimes used to reinforce a plural reference pattern in circumstances where such a reference pattern may be overshadowed by the potential for singular reference . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The existence of internal labour markets is sometimes used to explain labour ‘ hoarding ’ ( the practice of employing more labour than is actually required ) because firms do not wish to break the link between workers and the firm , thereby losing the skills acquired by workers over the years ; and is also put forward as a cause of a reduction in the overall level of competition in the aggregate labour market and , therefore , a possible reason for the inflexibility of wage rates , particularly in the downward direction . |
| 12 | The word ‘ imp ’ means a graft or shoot , hence is sometimes used to describe a child , as in Cromwell 's comment about Prince Edward when writing to Henry VIII : |
| 13 | The pointed arch was merely the most efficient form of building technology at the time ( in Stamford a pointed arch is sometimes used in medieval cellars to span the sites of earlier quarry pits ) and the undercroft at no. 13 St. Mary 's Hill was not a crypt for St. Mary 's Church , but a shop with steps giving access to the street . |
| 14 | The term ‘ initia ’ is sometimes used , but much more rarely . |
| 15 | This information is sometimes used today in building wooden houses but , on the whole , mechanical connexions of all kinds have been driven out by modern glues which have made the efficient use of wood possible but have introduced problems of their own . |
| 16 | ‘ . ’ He is drawing attention to the fact that ‘ I know ’ is sometimes used by a speaker to commit himself to the truth of what he proceeds to say . |
| 17 | Software might be restricted , as in this book , to computer programs but it is sometimes used as the generic term to include all sources of information . |
| 18 | Procedures is sometimes used for what are here called routines and sometimes to indicate all the operator 's information support except software . |
| 19 | In fact , the phrase ‘ participant observation ’ is sometimes used instead of ‘ ethnography ’ or ‘ fieldwork ’ , but this is misleading . |
| 20 | Although hand printing is sometimes used , all these cards have been produced in three ways . |
| 21 | Data files ( issue 44 ) contain information which is sometimes used by a program . |
| 22 | We are a long way removed from the 1929 Larousse dictionary 's definition of the term : ‘ act or way of cultivating the soil or certain plants ’ , with the added gloss : ‘ this word is sometimes used , like the German word Kultur , to mean civilisation , though with particular reference to the Germanic peoples ’ ! |
| 23 | Furthermore the term register is sometimes used to refer to any device which holds a group of one or more bits of information , and which is capable of being accessed at electronic speeds : in this book we use it only for storage devices provided for some special purpose ( such as the SAR ) , and do not apply it to a general store location . |
| 24 | Because of this connection , the term " microprogrammed " is sometimes used to describe instructions with bit significance , such as the " operate " instruction on the DEC PDP-8 computer ( described on p. 88 ) . |
| 25 | Grass is indeed a symbol of what is short-lived , and is sometimes used of mankind 's transitoriness . |
| 26 | However , the notation unc where the three dots indicate the vague expression " and so on " , is sometimes used . |
| 27 | The exploration by pupils of number or geometrical patterns is sometimes used by teachers to develop and test pupils ' ability to recognize and to use generalizations ( Example 106 ) . |
| 28 | One photographic technique , called photogrammetry , is sometimes used to supplement or even replace plans by taking vertical photographs of the site from a constant height , in much the same way as maps are produced using aerial photography . |
| 29 | It is sometimes used in erotic love scenes to suggest the subjectively rapid yet objectively languorous passage of time — meanwhile possibly also concealing that less is being shown than seems to meet the eye . |
| 30 | There has been one very disturbing factor in keeping this particular type of fish , and that has been discovering the incredible cruelty that is sometimes used in order to increase the sale of them . |