adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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call
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Chemical reactions which do not produce quantitative yields are sometimes called non-stoichiometric processes.
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This property is sometimes called vigilance.
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This emerging kind of organization within production is sometimes called flexible specialization.
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Limited assortment stores, sometimes called box stores, stock less than 1500 items; typically they sell no items requiring refrigeration.
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The latter type of relationship is sometimes called topological.
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During campaign periods, people sometimes call political offices to complain about particularly loud vans, said a Kuroda party officer.
feel
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I hiked across valleys so flat and wide it sometimes felt that I was walking on the spot.
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I have sometimes felt your distance, your discomfort with our lives in Virginia.
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She felt sometimes that he didn't know how spirited she could be, and this would certainly have shown him!
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True, he sometimes felt an unexpected sense of exultant extra life onstage.
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It sometimes felt that she was blushing all the time.
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She sometimes felt she was with-out great presence in the world, or that she had gone out of style.
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Prayer All of us feel sometimes that life is treating us unfairly.
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That scary scene in Gibson City was so far in the past, it sometimes felt as if it had never happened.
find
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Perhaps that's why we sometimes find it hard to talk about her.
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None has gone anywhere, though investigators sometimes found merit to the charges.
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Even so we do sometimes find admissions that women were doing the more advanced tasks.
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Extraordinary Strength Athletes sometimes find themselves in possession of extraordinary strength.
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Doreen sometimes finds herself in conflict situations which she finds unusually difficult to manage.
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Scholars sometimes find them, too.
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They come in two forms, sometimes found in the same lake.
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On the other hand, we sometimes find ourselves in the mythosphere!
referred
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This is sometimes referred to as the comfort factor by bankers.
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Iridology, sometimes referred to as iris diagnosis, is a non-invasive, painless diagnostic technique, according to practitioners.
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He is sometimes referred to as pseudo-Dionysius or pseudo-Denys.
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The contract of carriage by road shall be confirmed by a consignment note, sometimes referred to as a waybill.
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Many of the houses stand in two side roads on either side of this road, sometimes referred to as King Street.
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All these give some idea of possible refugia, sometimes referred to as centres of dispersal.
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These conditions are sometimes referred to as the threshold grounds or criteria.
seem
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The women sometimes seem dedicated to beauty and art, both for personal adornment and spiritual symbolism.
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The cult of sport sometimes seems to take on the quality of an Orwellian nightmare.
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Wall Street and Washington seem sometimes to have been overtaken by outlaws.
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Some one polite can make a refreshing change for them from the desperate, angry people who sometimes seem to fill their offices.
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Why does it sometimes seem that Robert Mugabe must be the natural leader of this panic-stricken crusade?
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And yet it is never very far ahead, indeed sometimes seems not to be ahead of the pursuer at all.
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In business life, it sometimes seems how you say something, and to whom, is everything.
think
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For how much longer, I sometimes think ?
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I sometimes think that the kits would do a better job of supporting creativity if they contained only half the necessary materials.
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I sometimes think that artists could well exhibit a few sketches along with the actual picture.
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I sometimes think a blunt instrument would do some good for her.
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You'd sometimes think they stage such incidents to persuade us poor bloody electors that they work hard.
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I sometimes think it might be better for everyone if I wasn't here.
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Only hope she doesn't end up looking like her dad, he thought sometimes with a rich inner guffaw.
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I sometimes think most schools are, in different ways.
use
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A common cause, according to recent research, is the chlorine solution sometimes used to bleach and sterilise corks.
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Teachers sometimes used outlines of letters for pupils to follow.
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Restrictive covenants are sometimes used in relation to the future use of licensed premises.
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The Panthers kept changing up, sometimes using five or six defensive backs on first down.
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Although hand printing is sometimes used , all these cards have been produced in three ways.
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The idea was most clearly formulated by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, but Charles Darwin sometimes used it, too.
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Composers sometimes use an attenuated form of this cluster effect to obscure what would otherwise be perfectly normal chord sequences.
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Watercraft are sometimes used to reach victim, who is pulled on to flotation board towed behind.
wonder
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Or am I just imagining all this, Ludens sometimes wondered .
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I wonder sometimes , wonder how much is fabricated and how much is truth.
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I sometimes wonder if she ever eats anything.
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Whether this was congenital, stemmed from growing up around a grocery store, or nerve induced, she sometimes wondered .
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He sometimes wondered why she hadn't thought of that.
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He is in the fifteenth year of his labor and sometimes wonders if he is becoming bodiless.
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He wondered sometimes if they even understood the questions.
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I sometimes wonder if I should expose my two children to football.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Sometimes I drive to work and sometimes I walk.
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Sometimes I stay late in the library after class.
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Injuries of this type sometimes take a long time to heal.
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The journey takes about an hour, sometimes even longer.
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Traffic noise is sometimes a problem.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And sometimes no purposeful movements result, in which case we talk of deep coma.
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He walked past the Harris house every day, whistling to himself, and sometimes he stopped to talk.
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However, men sometimes used this distinction to avoid thinking how to satisfy their partner physically as well as mentally.
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It seldom rings here, but sometimes the circulating nurse has to answer it and relay a quick question.
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It was one of those still, lovely evenings that you sometimes get in October.
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Sheraton sometimes uses canned broth, citing College Inn and Health Valley as her preferred brands.
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Those who don't, aggravate the pollution, reduce the lives of their cars and sometimes their own lives too.