Example sentences of "[adj] and sometimes [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Club records , and such photographs , often yield interesting and sometimes amusing information on many aspects of past local activities , and may well record architectural features long gone/ |
| 2 | In many processes the actual masses do not balance due to unavoidable and sometimes avoidable wastage of material . |
| 3 | They are mainly culled from old and sometimes dubious material , but there 's a bargain here and there and the trend is welcomed by hard-up punters . |
| 4 | Free and sometimes indiscriminate use of words such as ‘ discovery ’ has led some critics to the view that English Primary Education needs to be more firmly based on closely argued educational theory . |
| 5 | Having created his sea-bathing resort , this enterprising and sometimes contentious individual achieved the recognition he sought : the patronage of the upper classes . |
| 6 | He says : ‘ Small budgets , apologetic councils strapped for cash , and a complex social and sometimes ethnic mix of young customers and their parents do n't make for an easy life . ’ |
| 7 | For instance when the telephone rings — especially if it 's an internal call you know that you may have to give the caller prompt , detailed and sometimes unpopular advice . |
| 8 | Secondly , the provision of subways and footbridges should be avoided where possible , for they are often ignored by pedestrians who would rather dodge through the cars than climb to bridge level or expose themselves to the unpleasant and sometimes dangerous environment of a subway . |
| 9 | Determining whether or not they have done so is a quite different and sometimes difficult matter . |
| 10 | Particularly in the universities , and even more particularly in those universities which have a strong residential and sometimes collegial tradition , the experience of higher education is regarded as a unity , a totality , an organic whole ( or in more modern terms a package ) which it is neither desirable nor possible to dissect . |
| 11 | The arguments against restorative proctocolectomy for familial adenomatous polyposis on the grounds that the operation carries a much greater morbidity than ileorectal anastomosis now seem to be unfounded , particularly when the need for annual and sometimes difficult sigmoidoscopy after ileorectal anastomosis is considered . |
| 12 | This imbalance might have initiated the aberrant breeding behaviour of the males , so that the violent and sometimes fatal courtship , coupled with the inhospitable climate of Aldabra helped to maintain the imbalance . |
| 13 | Making the decision to resume a demanding job or career is a serious and sometimes hazardous business ; not least because it requires a thorough review and reappraisal of your lifestyle . |
| 14 | Professionals and family members have to be very clear about an individual 's own internal experiences and personal needs ; clearly it is no good pretending , for the sake of normalization , that delusions , hallucinations and abnormal moods do not exist and that aberrant and unsocial behaviour is not a real and sometimes pervasive aspect of mental disorder . |
| 15 | Jack and I have known God 's strength and grace for the many tasks we have been involved in as Crossroads staff , and for Jack the difference is that we work a six and sometimes seven day week and we 're open for business outside office hours ! |
| 16 | They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean , and what the historian catches will depend , partly on chance , but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use — these two factors being , of course , determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch . |
| 17 | Peter Thornton 's book is the first serious study of this vast and sometimes elusive subject and the fourth in a series of thematically non-sequential books from Weidenfeld and Nicolson initiated by Mr Thornton with his richly informative Authentic Décor : The Domestic Interior 1620–1920 . |
| 18 | Thomas 's witty and sometimes acerbic voice became the other side of her inner dialogue . |
| 19 | Certainly there is evidence that in the past sisters provided very significant amounts of practical , moral and sometimes financial support for each other ( Young and Willmott , 1957 ; Roberts , 1984 ) . |
| 20 | This first part of a scholarly and sometimes challenging book contains plenty to set the pavilions buzzing with discussion . |
| 21 | This is characterised by a scaly and sometimes itchy scalp , but it should n't be red or sore . |
| 22 | In reality , the relationship was a strained and sometimes comical mismatch , a 50-year-long saga of crossed purposes — with Yeats doing all the suffering and Maud forever striving to keep him at arm 's length . |
| 23 | Although the research reviewed below indicates some of the approaches made to these problems many difficulties still remain , partly because of the rich and sometimes ambiguous nature of art itself but also because of the value that is placed upon the validity of individual response in these areas . |
| 24 | The environmental campaign group is to lobby shoppers on Saturday to highlight what it claims is a destructive and sometimes illegal assault on rainforests . |
| 25 | Linking them together is one common elected purpose — the alluring and sometimes desperate hunt for a hidden hoard of holy relics . |
| 26 | Alcoholism is a chronic , progressive and sometimes fatal disease . ’ |
| 27 | Moreover , we know that people who are born with severe motor impairments develop normal and sometimes supra-normal intelligence . |
| 28 | ’ Neutrality ’ is used in ordinary discourse to indicate sometimes narrow and sometimes comprehensive neutrality . |
| 29 | Sometimes , however , the media can not be so easily deployed by political actors and the media may , in consequence , exert an indeterminate and sometimes capricious effect on the doings of political institutions and actors . |
| 30 | On the one hand , there has been a redefinition and tightening of formal controls , but on the other , there has been a simultaneous and sometimes incompatible thrust towards more management autonomy . |