Example sentences of "which sometimes [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of these measures was confined to a single area of policy , dispute over which sometimes crossed party political lines , as with the abolition of capital punishment and the legislation to enable the prosecution of a handful of elderly men against whom there might be evidence of war crimes committed half a century earlier outside the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom courts . |
| 2 | On special occasions L.O.R. trains ran through to Southport , although the voltage on this line was 600 D.C. which sometimes caused problems . |
| 3 | They swam like long rubbery strip-lights through the water 's gentle currents , and kept the rooms , corridors and towers of the castle bathed in a silky , pervasive light which sometimes made distances hard to measure and gave the air a thick sort of look . |
| 4 | He was not tall , close to minimum height in fact , but he was stocky , and he made up for lack of inches with a pressing , high-speed manner which sometimes made people think he was all noise and movement and no intelligence . |
| 5 | As has been normal for most organized communities that are not based on a money economy , African society was based on slavery ( in the sense of the life-long ownership of human beings who could be traded ) , which sometimes involved plantation work or even being used as a human sacrifice : there is no calculus to compare the disadvantages of local slavery with those of being taken across the Atlantic and used as plantation or mining labour . |
| 6 | These brands obscured those placed on the animal for the purpose of identification , which sometimes included caste brands as well as the name of the owner and his village . |
| 7 | He was five years older than Minton and watched critically as Minton suppressed his intelligence in order to get on with his Circus which sometimes included boys of adolescent mentality . |
| 8 | Abolitionists were no longer exposed in their use of public meetings ; indeed , compared with the disorder which sometimes accompanied agitation for parliamentary reform , large antislavery meetings were able to project the eminent respectability which could be attained by popular reform enterprise . |