Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [be] usually " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the character moves sideways with the head , body and arms in some way averted from the front , i.e. croisé , possibly with a twist of the shoulders , he or she is usually playing some evil or cunning person . |
| 2 | Yet he or she is usually limited by lack of resources , lack of accommodation , lack of contact outside the institution and downright sexual repressiveness within from any sexual expression whatever . |
| 3 | He or she is usually a well-known public figure , who need not have any connection with the academic world ( such as a member of the Royal Family ) . |
| 4 | The chief academic and administrative officer of a Scottish university , he or she is usually styled ‘ principal and vice chancellor ’ , the latter title used when standing in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions . |
| 5 | It is also restricted to the tips of the incisors , where it is usually heavier than on the category 1 samples . |
| 6 | Summarizing is a key behaviour in effective meetings where it is usually an important part of the chairing role . |
| 7 | The importation of English grammar into BSL is a particular feature of low status languages , where the learner 's language interference may continue unchecked until there is a communication breakdown and where it is usually the lower status person who accepts the responsibility for the breakdown . |
| 8 | There are two Recovery Rooms on the fourth floor where it 's usually okay . |
| 9 | Where it 's usually about four or five hundred . |
| 10 | It certainly makes a change from all the ‘ what-not-to-eat ’ diet advice that we are usually given . |
| 11 | The irony is , of course , that we are usually sitting in one of the three newly refurbished SUSA-run bars at the time , drinking a SUSA-subsidised pint , poured by a member of the SUSA bar staff . |
| 12 | Cold , wet and tired , we pitched the tents , and fervently hoped that Stephen 's mother would have reported us missing , as she knew that we were usually good timekeepers and normally arrived when we said we would . |
| 13 | Popular protest movements are becoming more common and although they are usually multi-class in membership , they often originate in poor urban neighbourhoods . |
| 14 | They are of two different types , mechanical protection works and agronomic methods , although they are usually used together in any soil conservation project . |
| 15 | This is because although they are usually regarded as an important branch of positivist theorising , they also have much in common with the classical tradition . |
| 16 | Women are economic agents , although they are usually not perceived to be . |
| 17 | The ventral interradial areas are covered by spinelets similar to the dorsal side although they are usually smaller and in some specimens they may resemble rugose granules . |
| 18 | The location of such deserted hamlets is an important task for the local fieldworker , since for many areas they were the most characteristic feature of the settlement pattern , although they are usually not as well documented as villages , churches and manor houses , nor are their remains as impressive or extensive . |
| 19 | Lesser offices remained the preserve of local men , although they were usually people of limited importance . |
| 20 | These threats were not idle , although they were usually only directed at those who did n't do much business . |
| 21 | Lesser offices remained the preserve of local men , although they were usually people of limited importance . |
| 22 | In fairness , it should be said that the best of the regionalist novels were considerably more complex and accomplished than they are usually given credit for , but , nonetheless , the regionalist novel as a whole came to be identified with a type of writing against which later writers reacted , one which , in its concern to document and to convey a message , was artistically clumsy and simplistic in its presentation of reality . |
| 23 | I also see women as much stronger than they are usually depicted , so that undoubtedly affects the way I present them in my own work . |
| 24 | While there are local adaptations of agricultural and pastoral practice to conserve soil , these processes ensure that they are usually not far-reaching , nor fast enough . |
| 25 | The multiple role of many detoxification enzymes would explain one of the curious features of chemical-sensitive patients — the fact that they are usually affected by a whole range of chemicals , not just one . |
| 26 | Sometimes , the doppelganger appears to friends or relatives of the dying , and their mimicry is so convincing that they are usually taken for the person involved . |
| 27 | One of the factors in the argument for right hemisphere reading by deep dyslexics is that they are usually able to read words that are highly imageable , that is readily give rise to a visual image , but they are often unable to read words that are highly abstract ( Richardson , 1975 ) . |
| 28 | Note that overflow records arise singly , however the prime data area is formatted , and that they are usually stored singly in indexed sequential files ( but see discussion of VSAM on p. 266 ) . |
| 29 | That they were usually successful indicates that the thieves understood the workings of the colonial bureaucracy , and that government did not function in the way intended by higher officials . |
| 30 | On learning that the French called them disparagingly " boites d'allumettes " — matchboxes and that they were usually only used by poor Annamese , the senator had suddenly elected to ride in one with his sons and meet the Frenchman at the market . |