Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] is usually " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter is composed of a penis which is usually unpaired ( but may be double , as in the Ephemeroptera and some Dermaptera ) and a pair of more lateral structures which are perhaps best referred to as parameres , though this term has been used in several different senses . |
| 2 | There they cause an enteritis which is usually catarrhal , but in very heavy infections the adult worms are tolerated without clinical signs , but when considerable numbers are present the large size of these worms may cause intestinal occlusion and death . |
| 3 | There it is refined by a capacitor which is usually connected in series across the AC supply , The current passes from the ballast to the cathode ; it is also relayed , via the starter , to the anode . |
| 4 | This point is proved by a prosecution witness who is usually a police officer , but sometimes can be a pedestrian who was not accorded precedence . |
| 5 | Firstly , the arm spines are long , up to 2 segments long while in the other species they tend to equal only one arm segment and secondly the skin of the disk is not thickened obscuring the plates beneath , although this may be an artefact due to the dried condition of the holotype there is usually some indication of a skin covering even in dried specimens . |
| 6 | In standard laboratory research it is usually possible to create stimuli which systematically manipulate the details of interest . |
| 7 | Although the Inland Revenue has up to three months in which to confirm the validity of the election ( s 248(2) ) , in practice it is usually prepared to give confirmation within a much shorter period . |
| 8 | The analysis of required skills ought in principle to have an ergonomics input but in practice it is usually done on the basis of experience of similar system designs in the past . |
| 9 | It is essential , in carrying out the test , to use sentential frames which ideally do not share any elements ( although in practice it is usually sufficient if the immediate pre- and post-environments of the substituted items are distinct ) . |
| 10 | When this is given as written practice it is usually between 250 and 3,000 words in prose on a given subject . |
| 11 | The term ‘ further education ’ ( FE ) is used sometimes in a general sense to cover all post-school education , but in practice it is usually differentiated from higher education ( study at universities , polytechnics and colleges of higher education ) , and divided into the categories of non-advanced further education ( NAFE ) , which means A-level standard or below , and advanced further education ( AFE ) which is above A level or its equivalent . |
| 12 | In industry it is usually done with portable meters which measure the electrical resistance between two needles pressed into the wood and thus give the answer much more quickly . |
| 13 | Well , whenever women are at a disadvantage it is usually because somebody has put them there . |
| 14 | It is a report and valuation for mortgage and insurance assessment which is usually done in half an hour and consists of a general look at the property to see that it actually exists as described , and is not in a state of collapse or major disrepair . |
| 15 | 2 As an adjunct or object to the preceding verb which is usually transitive : She promised to write every day . |
| 16 | The systematic survey is the antidote to excessive reliance on personal experience which is usually biased by exposure to idiosyncratic samples and by selective perception . |
| 17 | Many residents have some kind of support which is usually a stick , a Zimmer or wheeled frame or a wheelchair . |
| 18 | This is a provision which is usually inserted , since , once an order has been placed , it becomes a separate contract , with a life of its own , and stands or falls on the terms and conditions which govern it . |
| 19 | 9.1.6 the Tenant has any distress or execution levied on [ its ] goods the Landlord may re-enter the Premises ( or any part of them in the name of the whole ) at any time ( and even if any previous right of re-entry has been waived ) and then the Term will absolutely cease but without prejudice to any rights or remedies which may have accrued to the Landlord against the Tenant or the Guarantor [ or to the Tenant against the Landlord ] in respect of any breach of covenant or other term of this Lease ( including the breach in respect of which the re-entry is made ) All leases will , or should , contain a forfeiture provision which is usually in the form of a proviso reserving to the landlord a right of re-entry in the event of non-payment of rent , breach of covenant or circumstances resulting in , or likely to give rise to , the probability of the tenant being unable to perform its obligations under the lease , eg bankruptcy or liquidation . |
| 20 | In particular , Gloucester apparently acquiesced in the Woodville attack on Clarence in 1477/8 , the very issue which is usually seen as grounds for their animosity . ’ ) |
| 21 | In particular , Gloucester apparently acquiesced in the Woodville attack on Clarence in 1477/8 , the very issue which is usually seen as grounds for their animosity . ’ ) |
| 22 | The oral shield is usually small , rounded , triangular except the madreporite which is usually large . |
| 23 | It may not be generally known that on the first Tuesday of each month there is an Interdenominational Church Service at 10.30 am at the Nursing Home which is usually well attended . |
| 24 | When farmers and farm workers refer to the ‘ loss of community ’ in their village it is usually to this kind of change that they are implicitly referring , for there are bound to be changing patterns of sociability developing in the village to which they are unaccustomed or from which they feel excluded . |
| 25 | When the agricultural population complains of a loss of community in the English village it is usually to this loss of an enclosed , socially self-sufficient occupational community that they refer . |
| 26 | If a customer asks a broker to deal on an exchange it is usually an implied term of their contract that the broker will do so in accordance with the usages of that exchange . |
| 27 | That is , the sensation itself we would apprehend as , perhaps , a mild , diffused prickling , and the warmth and coldness would be our classification of it as ‘ the sort of sensation which is usually caused by being in hot water ’ and ‘ the sort of sensation which is usually caused by being in cold water ’ . |
| 28 | That is , the sensation itself we would apprehend as , perhaps , a mild , diffused prickling , and the warmth and coldness would be our classification of it as ‘ the sort of sensation which is usually caused by being in hot water ’ and ‘ the sort of sensation which is usually caused by being in cold water ’ . |
| 29 | However , this is a very expensive process which is usually reserved for repairs to failed joints in ancient timber-framed structures where the removal and replacement of individual members is impracticable . |
| 30 | Wilfred Owen was a poet during the first world war and all his poems contain a strong message about war which is usually expressed through a personal experience . |