Example sentences of "[am/are] sometimes [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Electives ' , as they 're sometimes called , enable you to narrow your focus of study onto those specific subjects/classes that interest you the most . |
| 2 | Dock-grubs — leather jackets I think they 're sometimes called — are another fine natural bait . |
| 3 | Chris believes in teaching children about snakes , showing them that they are n't the horrible slimy things they 're sometimes portrayed as . |
| 4 | I 'm sometimes asked about using the right hand side of mylar sheets for patterns . |
| 5 | He collected information on the natural rafts of timber that are sometimes swept out to sea from great rivers , often bearing plants and even animals with them . |
| 6 | Although the first two positions are committed to the view that we are sometimes justified in causing nonhuman animals significant pain , in pursuit of institutionalised human interests , animal rightists deny that we are ever justified in doing this . |
| 7 | They are most usually seen singly , but two together are sometimes met with . |
| 8 | In the Roman Catholic Church priests are sometimes appointed to look after the needs of a particular ethnic group . |
| 9 | Nevertheless the erosion of such landscapes can expose the successive lava flows which may then form low , but laterally persistent , cliff-like faces in which the hexagonal joint patterns that are sometimes developed in basalt are visible . |
| 10 | Closed questions are sometimes perceived to be those which can only elicit a " Yes " or " No " response . |
| 11 | My expectations from analogy with the past , like a dog 's , are sometimes realized , sometimes disappointed ; if the mechanism were not often effective it would not as it evolved have been spared by natural selection ; but I , as a rational being , want to be able to judge when it is reliable . |
| 12 | They are an intelligent breed , quite sensitive , and although they are sometimes reserved they are particularly fond of children , and can become firm friends with them . |
| 13 | They are sometimes reserved in the Articles as class rights attaching to the preference shares or the preferred ordinary shares . |
| 14 | Scope notes are sometimes designated by the abbreviation SN ( for Scope Note ) . |
| 15 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 16 | Riders are sometimes slowed to a walking pace and punch the supporters who try to embrace them . |
| 17 | Butane gas and aerosols may be sniffed from bags , but are sometimes sprayed directly into the mouth . |
| 18 | The eyes and the liver are sometimes involved late in the secondary stage , as are the joints and the covering of the bones . |
| 19 | The reports suggest that large numbers are sometimes involved . |
| 20 | decisions are sometimes influenced by factors such as the local authority 's policies , political views of Board members and the character of the appellant . |
| 21 | I am afraid that charismatic circles are sometimes influenced more by the horror genre and the barmier corners of the Bible-belt than the Bible when it comes to the Devil and evil spirits . |
| 22 | Transcendental Meditation has never acquired the reputation of a sinister cult , but doubts are sometimes voiced about it . |
| 23 | Again , in-flight arrangements are sometimes timed with respect to the departure zone . |
| 24 | Other ‘ domatia ’ are more substantial structures and are known from over 400 species ( half in America , fewest in Africa ) in over 30 genera of trees and lianes : in A cacia they are in stipular thorns but in the rest they are in the stems , where the stems are sometimes swollen as in some species of Clerodendrum ( Verbenaceae ) . |
| 25 | Yet each of these monotheistic faiths developed its own distinctive mysticism , which was instinctively recognised by the establishment as an authentic — even an honoured — spirituality , though relations with it are sometimes strained . |
| 26 | ‘ So again Kingfishers , when they catch a fish , always beat it until it is killed ; and in the Zoological Gardens they always beat the raw meat , with which they are sometimes fed , before devouring it ’ — Charles Darwin : The Expression of the Emotions in Man & Animals |
| 27 | Volcanic eruptions are sometimes compared with the drama , colour and spectacle of Wagner 's operas — the ‘ Ride of the Valkyries ’ has been used very effectively as the background music to a film of some particularly lurid eruptions . |
| 28 | This is very different from the integral paradigms of Thomas Kuhn to which Foucault 's epistemes are sometimes compared . |
| 29 | Conditions in some ‘ private ’ clinics , to which patients without funds are sometimes sent by the State , but which are rarely inspected or monitored for standards , can be even more stark than in the state institutions . |
| 30 | Goods are sometimes sent without prior request . |