Example sentences of "[be] sometimes [verb] [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sometimes argued that a full-blooded commitment to phenomenological principles entails a retreat into relativism in which the researcher is denied any grounds upon which to choose between alternative accounts of the same situation . |
| 2 | It is sometimes argued that the additional costs of disability are offset , to some extent , by the more limited range of social activities they can engage in , which produces cost savings for them . |
| 3 | It is sometimes argued that the main reason for allowing such matters as provocation to reduce murder to manslaughter is to avoid the mandatory penalty for murder . |
| 4 | It is sometimes argued that an experienced programmer can detect the ‘ general shape ’ of a particular high-level language X from blocks of machine code , just by hunch and judgement , but this ignores the possibility that the code may have been written in language Y with the syntactic style of X precisely in order to create this confusion ; just as one can murmur English with a German intonation and cause a distant listener to believe he is listening to unintelligible German . |
| 5 | Second , it is sometimes said that the pure vertical effects of integration are always positive in a welfare sense — they only become negative because of associated horizontal effects , for example as a result of a reduction in the number of downstream firms . |
| 6 | It is sometimes said that the dissident minority in the Cabinet , led by Henderson , were not willing to accept cuts in unemployment benefit . |
| 7 | It is sometimes said that the public roads laid out by the enclosure commissioners followed the lines of the medieval footpaths and bridle paths between the villages , paths that had been trodden out first in Anglo-Saxon times . |
| 8 | This discretion can also be used to justify refusal of leave to apply for judicial review under RSC Ord. 53 ; and so it is sometimes said that the whole judicial review jurisdiction is discretionary , not just the remedies . |
| 9 | It is sometimes suggested that a justified true belief can be knowledge when it derives from a reliable method ( see Goldman , 1976 ; Armstrong , 1973 , ch. 13 ; Swain , 1981 ) . |
| 10 | It is sometimes suggested that the mystical flowering of the fourteenth century was a reaction against the scientific and scholastic enthusiasms of the thirteenth century , which had sought to reinterpret the Christian experience in terms of the rationalistic philosophy of Aristotle . |
| 11 | ( Figs. 17–19 ) — It is sometimes considered that the pleural sclerites were derived from a primitive subcoxal segment of the leg which became flattened and incorporated into the pleural region of the body-wall . |