Example sentences of "[is] sometimes [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His reaction puzzles Banquo , but Macbeth explains it to us in an aside : The word ‘ swelling ’ is sometimes glossed by comparison with a stage thronged with people , but it also suggests pregnancy , and we may recall Angelo 's sense of ‘ the strong and swelling evil/Of my conception ’ . |
| 2 | Vision is sometimes impaired . |
| 3 | In rural areas , modern medicine is sometimes rejected on the grounds that it is intrinsically bad . |
| 4 | By a similar slip of logic it is sometimes presumed in such discussions that voluntary bodies are the only or the main beneficiaries of voluntary help and cash aid . |
| 5 | It is sometimes highlighted by using different coloured mats and its purpose is to alert you when you approach the mat boundary . |
| 6 | The ultimate sanction a country can levy — nationalisation ( expropriation ) of operations is not unknown , but is less frequent than is sometimes believed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is also difficult to understand how what is sometimes believed to be the essential ‘ minimum ’ syllabus of the three-year single subject degree can be halved without loss of disciplinary integrity . |
| 9 | This fragmentation of concern for the aged is sometimes criticized , but clearly when we are considering a particular group of people , like the aged , rather than a particular problem , like sickness , it would not be possible , or desirable , to provide all that is needed through one statutory service . |
| 10 | This trend is sometimes viewed with alarm , but then at the turn of the century social services were virtually non-existent and the social problems of poverty , sickness , squalor , ignorance , child neglect and so on were barely recognized , let alone tackled in any effective manner . |
| 11 | Perhaps some component of Pascal 's restless questioning was due to his displacement through recurrent ill-health , but what makes his questionings still worth reading , is that they confront the foundations of our existence and that despite the fact that he is sometimes seen merely as a Catholic apologist . |
| 12 | Sometimes an observant parent will notice something that will give us a clue ; after a child recovers from one of those high fevers that ‘ lay it very low ’ for a short time it is sometimes seen that the child is more ‘ well ’ than before it became ‘ ill ’ , provided the illness has not been inappropriately treated or interfered with in some way . |
| 13 | This view is sometimes seen as represented in the Gospel of John . |
| 14 | The strong feeling of a presence is felt , lights go on and off , doors open and shut on their own , the shadow of a man 's head is sometimes seen ; but on recording sessions , many unnerving things can happen , heavy breathing down the musicians ' necks , brushing past people . |
| 15 | Plainly a single attack of balanitis , which is sometimes seen in boys with fully retractile foreskins , is not a sufficient indication for circumcision . |
| 16 | The role of pension funds in this outflow is often taken as indicative for , since the mid-1960s , pension funds have become the main channel for employees ' long-term savings and their overseas investment is sometimes seen as a ‘ diversion ’ of savings that could otherwise have been used to finance productive investment in British industry . |
| 17 | A general degree is sometimes seen as an alternative for students who are not up to honours standard ; this is largely though not entirely the case with the Scottish ordinary degree . |
| 18 | A comparable situation is sometimes seen despite large doses of morphine when the patient 's anxieties and fears have not been addressed . |
| 19 | Schooling is sometimes seen as yet another burden on scarce family resources . |
| 20 | In fact , the rational expectations hypothesis is sometimes seen as providing support for the ‘ strong ’ version of the Friedman approach to monetary policy in which the x per cent rule is made constitutionally binding . |
| 21 | Within academic circles , to cite a popular work , other than to condemn it , is sometimes seen as an admission that the author is a ‘ lightweight ’ or a populist , and there is considerable peer pressure not to include such citations . |
| 22 | The disorder is sometimes seen as serving a homoeostatic or stabilising role in the family . |
| 23 | This unrest is sometimes seen in terms of the class war , but strictly speaking this is unlikely to have been the case , since the rebels appear to have included dispossessed aristocrats . |
| 24 | The Tory Reaction is sometimes seen as the beginnings of the attempt to revive royal absolutism in England , and certainly in the years following the defeat of Exclusion supporters of the Crown encouraged an exalted view of monarchy . |
| 25 | In other countries it is sometimes seen in dogs imported from endemic regions Gross : They are readily recognised on the basis of size ( 1.0-2.0 cm ) , being much smaller than the common ascarid nematodes which are also found in the small intestine , and by their characteristic " hook " posture . |
| 26 | She traces the origins of language interactions in the communicative patterns of earliest infancy , suggests some valuable features of what is sometimes dismissed as ‘ baby talk ’ and with extensive reference to the research literature , reviews a whole range of features of adult language that are thought to assist the child 's task of language learning . |
| 27 | The whole idea of economic growth in the early Middle Ages is sometimes dismissed as anachronistic . |
| 28 | What I 'm saying is is sometimes slowing the pace and simply |
| 29 | Owned and managed by Paolo Galgani the hotel has characteristic public rooms , an inner courtyard with its own well and a delightful terrace on the second floor when an Italian style buffet breakfast is sometimes served . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |