Example sentences of "and sometimes a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our billetors were obliged , wherever possible , to provide us with one bath per week ; where this was not possible , facilities were available at B.P. , but this interfered with transport provisions , and sometimes a request for private transport was necessary , though not readily granted , and arrangements for this were in the hands of a Mrs Wildboar-Smith . |
| 2 | At a certain point in the ceremony the rhythm of the weeping began to change and the tears were replaced by laughter and sometimes a kind of ecstatic , even erotic frenzy . |
| 3 | It was the listeners up in the loggioni of whom the singers were most afraid : if the performance did not reach a sufficiently high standard in the opinion of the audience , the most vocal members of which were in the loggioni , they would be treated to il fichio , an outburst of whistling accompanied by the stamping of feet and sometimes a barrage of tomatoes or fruit . |
| 4 | Captain Coote 's sea pieces were fully manned and he told us about his contributing authors , unlike Mr Raban , who gives us only their dates and sometimes a mention in the introduction . |
| 5 | He finds today unbelief , or apathy , and sometimes a collapse of the sense of right and wrong . |
| 6 | Cakes baked on the gridiron were regarded as a luxury , and sometimes a substitute for tea was made by pouring boiling water over burnt crusts of bread . |
| 7 | Inaugurated in the 1960s with the rediscovery of Artaud 's manifestos in favour of the so-called Theatre of Cruelty , drama in the last quarter of the twentieth century displays a noticeable interest in bizarre expressionistic decor , extended pantomimic gestures and sometimes a cacophony of non-verbal sounds . |
| 8 | Sometimes design is a constructive method , and sometimes a process of elimination . |
| 9 | Why is law sometimes a faculty in its own right , and sometimes a department within a faculty ? |
| 10 | Sensitive to open air and sometimes a sensation of breathlessness as if they were passing rapidly through the air . |