Example sentences of "sometimes [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you watch the treatment sessions , you may sometimes think that the patient is not taking any active role in initiating movements , whereas the physiotherapist seems to be doing the movements for him . |
| 2 | ‘ So you do sometimes think before you act ? |
| 3 | You 'd sometimes think they stage such incidents to persuade us poor bloody electors that they work hard . |
| 4 | Spreads ( i.e. differences between buying and selling prices ) have sometimes been enormous , particularly if quoted by a Harvard market-maker when they would sometimes overreach the 10% level . |
| 5 | The weaknesses of this approach are that work absenteeism is under-reported in professional occupations , different jobs can be performed with different degrees of ill-health , attitudes to work can sometimes override states of ill-health , particularly of the minor type , and above all , a large proportion of the population is not in the labour force , so their illness goes totally unrecorded . |
| 6 | While redundancy rights can sometimes arise in the context of men being laid off from work or put on short time , in the case of a business executive , redundancy almost always involves a dismissal . |
| 7 | When the comparative method of land valuation is used problems may sometimes arise where unrealistic transactions are used as a guide or base value , particularly at the point when land values are about to fall , as happened in 1973 . |
| 8 | Such agreements have financial benefits as the cost of development is shared , but friction and disagreement can sometimes arise between members of the agreement . |
| 9 | But visual signals can be rich in meaning and silences can sometimes convey as much as words . |
| 10 | EXAMPLES are not hard to find which prove that capitalism and democracy , though they may sometimes exist together , are certainly not synonymous . |
| 11 | However , considerable earthworks do sometimes exist and these are , of course , well worth recording . |
| 12 | She could sometimes experience it as a physical thing — a slender cord strung between the two of them , as though they each held one end , and she , she had to balance on that tight rope , poised and tricky . |
| 13 | Like many others , it too had its great hall in which the classes did sometimes mingle for such festivities as Mr Lyle 's Christmas celebration . |
| 14 | The diabetes can sometimes disappear if you lose weight and maybe that will happen to me one of these days as I 've lost quite a lot recently . |
| 15 | He did sometimes stay in the storeroom and check the day 's accounts . |
| 16 | After such rows , her mother would sometimes stay in her room for days on end or trail round the house like a blind stranger , oblivious to Katherine 's existence . |
| 17 | This process can sometimes weaken the pile fibres , but it produces extremely attractive shades of muted red and rose . |
| 18 | They influenced him for a lifetime , though he would sometimes grump , ‘ I write like a copper , dun I ? ’ |
| 19 | I do sometimes fancy something a bit more refined . ’ |
| 20 | were they always made by the local blacksmiths , or did somebody sometimes construct one , as you said at Out of wood or other material ? |
| 21 | The mineral traces in unrefined salt can sometimes affect the foods with which they are used . |
| 22 | When children overdo self-restraint , problems arise which can sometimes affect their future happiness . |
| 23 | Even a prescription of the wrong remedy can sometimes affect the picture of symptoms so as to make the right remedy more obvious and easily discerned . |
| 24 | In scientific experiments ‘ scaling ’ the apparatus optimally can sometimes affect one 's ability to see an effect accurately or at all . |
| 25 | The formula does not contain silicone so it wo n't create build-up on the hair which can sometimes affect the result of chemical treatments carried out in the salons . |
| 26 | The regulations will sometimes affect only a manufacturer ( e.g. where they govern design or composition ) . |
| 27 | Okay well if you do n't mind my I have to er because it does affect whether you 're you 're gon na be able to erm sometimes earn the right money . |
| 28 | My dad , who , as I have already told you , was a docker by trade , never seemed to take that much interest in any of us and though he could sometimes earn as much as a pound a week , the money always seemed to end up in the Black Bull , where it was spent on pint after pint of ale , and gambled away on games of cribbage or dominoes in the company of our next-door neighbour , Bert Shorrocks , a man who never seemed to speak , just grunt . |
| 29 | Try to record anything you can remember — details , a feeling , colours , even an odd word can sometimes trigger the total memory of a dream . |
| 30 | It is sensitive to slight movements of the camera , subject or reference strip and will sometimes trigger spurious diagnostics . |