It is sometimes supposed that the turtle's ear is a degenerate organ, largely or even completely unresponsive to sound.
It is sometimes supposed that the way to make pictures entirely as one wants to, without having to think about the box-office, is to dispense with stars in order to make them on a low budget.
Since he is introduced before Nehemiah, who was governor of the province of Judah from 445 to 433 bc and again, after an interval, for a second term of unknown length, it is sometimes supposed that this was the seventh year of Artaxerxes I (458 bc), though serious difficulties are attached to such a view.
At the same time, it can also be prescriptive, in that it is sometimes supposed to prescribe certain forms of behaviour as acceptable and proscribe others as unacceptable.
It can be descriptive, in that it is sometimes supposed to describe a certain set of facts which obtain because of some natural features.
There can be no doubt that face is central to Chinese culture and it is sometimes supposed that face is so significant in the behavior of Chinese people that paradoxically it is taken for granted by them.
It is sometimes supposed that once we begin to reflect upon much simpler beings than ourselves — snails, for example — we are left with nothing physical or structural that we could plausibly take to help us determine whether they are phenomenally conscious (Papineau 1994).
It is sometimes supposed that a given gene sequence, for instance, should be expected always to code for the same (set of) function(s), and a protein always to perform the same function(s).
Although the state is itself not the resolution of a giant prisoner's dilemma or collective action, as is sometimes supposed, it can be used to resolve prisoner's dilemma interactions.
Indeed, it should do so: "If, as is sometimes supposed, science consisted in nothing but the laborious accumulation of facts, it would soon come to a standstill, crushed, as it were, under its own weight.
