Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] were usually " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political scribblers were usually better value than politicians , most of them being irreverent and much better informed . |
| 2 | In Somerset , public roads were usually forty feet wide , of which — in 1795 — twelve feet were stoned to a depth of a foot in the middle and nine inches at the sides . |
| 3 | Perhaps , as Dyos and Aldcroft have suggested , Englishmen 's expectations were rising , for foreign vistors were usually impressed . |
| 4 | Sauce-boats with such marine motifs were usually intended to serve fish sauces . |
| 5 | Accused persons were automatically excluded from longevity treatment , and , since the Imperial law courts often took years over a complex case , the effects of the irreversible ageing process were usually apparent . |
| 6 | Even at the market 's peak , Spanish collectors were not buying international art and the elevated expectations of the foreign dealers were usually frustrated . |
| 7 | Even within Great Britain , pre-war holidays for Scottish families were usually taken in the Highlands or at nearby seaside resorts . |
| 8 | Such pugilistic interludes were usually short-lived however , for it meant incurring the wrath of the landlord , one Nathanial Nelmes , better known as ‘ Knocker ’ . |
| 9 | The hardwoods from which English ships were usually built are more resistant to soakage and there are several instances of wooden ships afloat and in service for over a hundred years . |
| 10 | For those citing domestic responsibilities as the most important reason , specific responses were usually childcare demands and being the only wage earner in the family ( which also overlaps with financial difficulties ) . |
| 11 | But one ought to remember too that outsiders and the representatives of central authority were usually scathing about any county other than their own , and locals invariably took a perverse pride in any peculiarities . |
| 12 | It is , however , true that Roman aristocrats were usually wary of divine origins . |
| 13 | Direct painted references to the objective visible world were usually dismissed as ‘ illustrative ’ . |
| 14 | Not surprisingly , part-time women were usually left to management 's mercies and when recession struck they were usually the first to go . |
| 15 | It is noticeable how early excavations of previously unsuspected churches were usually interpreted as the church having been moved , as at Eaton Socon in Bedfordshire and Potterne in Wiltshire . |
| 16 | The core of diplomacy continued to be the resident diplomat , concerned largely with the collection of information and reporting home relatively frequently in despatches of which particularly important or delicate parts were usually in cypher . |
| 17 | In the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries large estates were usually run from the main residence of the landowner — particularly the large country house or stately home ( Fig. 23 ) . |
| 18 | Even in Canada , sleeping-car attendants were usually black Canadians . |
| 19 | Widows , deserted wives and unmarried mothers were usually able-bodied , but were often responsible for the care of dependent children . |
| 20 | The rough staves were usually imported from Scandinavia and were brought up river by barge . |
| 21 | For these reasons , and also because elderly patients were usually less mobile and less likely to leave the area , key workers for elderly patients were sometimes seen as redundant . |
| 22 | Their intimate conversations were usually by phone — and late at night , while Diana was away from Highgrove , and Camilla 's brigadier husband , Andrew , 52 was leading his largely-separate life in London and Aldershot , Hants . |
| 23 | Atkinson , Ferguson 's predecessor at Old Trafford returns to the place where his United side were usually thereabouts — but never there . |
| 24 | She decided to wait until eleven o'clock , when the medical rounds were usually done . |
| 25 | Resident ambassadors were usually less generously treated . |
| 26 | Local medical officers were usually committed to a purely professional radicalism , transfixed with the reduction of their magic figures , the disease and death rates , in local sanitary areas . |
| 27 | Generally perpetrated by the most physically independent male members of the group , antisocial activities were usually attributed by senior staff to extraneous socio-psychological factors and controlled through ‘ rehabilitative ’ activities . |
| 28 | More than a hundred Unionist MPs were usually away from the House on military service , and 125 Unionist agents served in the trenches ; the party organization was used in the war effort at no cost to the country ; every local party was decimated by volunteers who joined up in the first rush ; and at every level , the number who joined up was more than matched by those indirectly involved through recruiting , raising money , running war charities or breeding remounts . |
| 29 | Carcases in the open air were usually removed and eaten within two days by a member of the local population of buzzards , cats , foxes , polecats and weasels , leaving no trace . |
| 30 | The American critics were usually poets themselves ; Leavis made no attempt to be a creative writer — though he has been claimed as such by Ian Robinson — but his own criticism emerged from the Cambridge milieu of the twenties , where Eliot was a dominant influence . |