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This navigator, it is sometimes said, had been in a Manilla galleon which Cavendish had captured near Cape St. Lucas in 1587, when the English freebooter burned the vessel and landed her crew.
To deal with an artful man is sometimes said to be like biting a FILE.
At the game of cribbage, when a player finds it his policy to keep his antagonist back, rather than push himself forward, and plays accordingly, he is sometimes said "to feed his opponent on HORSE NAILS.
Such a person issometimes said "to have rubbed his face with a brass candlestick.
Such punctilious practice of the law is sometimes said to hamper a successful career and, above all, lead to the loss of the opportunities that bring a lawyer into prominence.
This expression is sometimes said to be an exaggeration, but it is in accord with the whole trend of Berengar's method of study.
It is sometimes said, that it does not recognize certain measures of public policy, deemed by certain persons of special importance.
It issometimes said to have been first recognized at Rome by Clement XI.
It is sometimes said that a bailment for the sole benefit of the bailor is not a contract by reason of there being no consideration.
It is sometimes said to be a money or pecuniary interest possessed, or reasonably expected, by the party entering into the insurance contract.
It issometimes said that at this early age children should not be told, even in a simple and elementary form, the real facts of their origin but should, instead, hear a fairy-tale having in it perhaps some kind of symbolic truth.
It is sometimes said that it is very well to make the individual legally responsible for the venereal disease he communicates, but that the difficulties of bringing that responsibility home would still remain.
It is sometimes said a prostitute is a woman who gives herself to numerous men.
It is sometimes said that "lust" must be understood as meaning a reckless indulgence of the sexual impulse without regard to other considerations.
He died early, a painter of mark, but not the greatest portrait-painter of the world, as is sometimes said of him.
He, in common with all the Venetians, is sometimes said to be lacking in drawing, but that is the result of a misunderstanding.
It is sometimes saidto have been designed by Michael Angelo, but that is only a conjecture.
It is sometimes said, for instance, that in voluntary attention, we compel our mind to attend, while our interest would naturally direct our attention elsewhere.
It is sometimes said that, if we can inhibit the expression, the emotion will disappear, that is, if I can prevent the trembling, I will cease to be afraid.
The ligature issometimes said to have been an invention of Ambroise Pare, but, as a matter of fact, it had been in use for at least three centuries before his time, and perhaps even longer.
It is sometimes said that he helped to introduce many important inventions into Europe and one even finds his name connected with the mariner's compass and with gunpowder.
It is sometimes said, when reference is made to precedents of this kind, that they have never been approved by the bar.
It is sometimes said as a triumphant argument in favor of the exercise of this power, "Has not the judge the power to order a verdict of acquittal?
It is sometimes said this is one of the "reserved rights" of the States.
It issometimes said with a certain irony that if the enterpriser assumes the risk he is very careful to pay so little for labor that he does not lose.
This loss falls upon him, not, as is sometimes said to have been the case under serfdom or slavery, upon his owner (as if that secured to the slave immunity from suffering).
A peacock or a turkey-cock strutting about with puffed-up feathers, is sometimes said to be an emblem of pride.
The imagination is sometimes said to be tickled by a ludicrous idea; and this so-called tickling of the mind is curiously analogous with that of the body.
So familiar is this appearance to us, that an angry man is sometimes said "to have his back up.
He saw that motion is frequently called action; he saw that one body is sometimes said to act upon another; and this was sufficient for his purpose.
It is sometimes said, that we are conscious of our own existence; but this is not to use language with philosophical precision.
Thus, the mind, or the power of the mind, is sometimes said to be the cause of motion in the body; but this is not to speak with philosophical precision.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sometimes said" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
