Example sentences of "be usually [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're usually run by idiots ’ , he said , ‘ stuffed shirt idiots ’ . |
| 2 | they 're usually made between six and eight months before the first person would move in |
| 3 | We 're usually done by five , you know , so there 's |
| 4 | Using pliers or one of the various gripping wrenches will not do the tool much good ( they 're usually meant for something else ) and will probably make a mess of the nut . |
| 5 | They 're usually purchased over the counter with no instructions , but last week I bought one in a plastic sleeve , on which the following instructions were printed : ‘ This voltage indicator is suitable for testing AC voltage from 100 volts up to a maximum of 500 volts against earth The metal part on top of the indicator must be touched to operate it , and the earthing position of the user largely determines whether it lights up or not . |
| 6 | Previously , the Church had been usually defined as a ‘ society ’ ( even a juridically ‘ perfect society ’ ) , a term taken to imply the primary need for authority , and frequently used in relation to the state . |
| 7 | Various contraceptive methods have always been known , from abortion to coitus interruptus , and by the eighteenth century condoms were available , though they seem to have been usually used as safeguards against venereal disease rather than for birth control . |
| 8 | These indices are usually validated against utilisation rates ( see above ) or by how well they correlate with various measures of morbidity available routinely . |
| 9 | They are usually mounted on a fabric backing for ease of handling , and are fixed using conventional ceramic tile adhesive . |
| 10 | Solar panels are usually mounted on the roof of a house and used for domestic heating . |
| 11 | The effects of personal income taxation are usually viewed in relation to the aggregate supply of hours of market work and the associated welfare costs . |
| 12 | Small files that demand multiple-key handling are usually stored on magnetic tape and processed sequentially . |
| 13 | Even if the master file is held in a sorted order there will be no particular difficulty , as these files are usually stored on magnetic tapes . |
| 14 | Quite a few of the DOS commands are supplied as separate COM and EXE files , for example , DOSKEY.COM and PRINT.EXE These files are usually stored in a subdirectory called DOS on the C drive . |
| 15 | One of the curiosities of water mills is that in the North , unlike the South of England , the wheels are usually erected inside the buildings . |
| 16 | Fish and chips , and other fast foods , are usually cooked in palm oil or palm oil blends . |
| 17 | It is the fundamental skills of problem-identification , analysis and debate which are usually perceived by examiners and potential employers as the main achievement of literary studies . |
| 18 | Eurobonds are usually listed on the London or Luxembourg stock markets . |
| 19 | These are usually studied by separating them from a crushed rock with heavy liquids , notably tetrabromoethane , which is extremely toxic . |
| 20 | Levels of aggression , a highly male-identified characteristic , are usually studied in women by using passive experimental designs , which vary factors such as story content , sex of the other person in the experiment , or order of exposure to treatment . |
| 21 | They are usually dressed in long grey tunics and scarlet aprons that touch the ground , being extremely sensitive about showing their feet to anyone . |
| 22 | The models are usually formulated as ‘ one-shot games ‘ : firms are making their choices relative to market and cost conditions at a given point in time as if there were no past and no future . |
| 23 | These are usually formulated in terms of differential equations . |
| 24 | The grants are usually tied to a theme and conditions . |
| 25 | But they are usually tied to a particular building society or insurance company and so will only arrange loans with them . |
| 26 | The prices are usually collected on the Tuesday closest to the 15th of the month and the index is published in the third week of the following month in various economic journals . |
| 27 | It would be possible for it to be installed in Canterbury as the majority of calls coming into London are usually transferred to Canterbury anyway . |
| 28 | His score is also notable for its choruses , particularly double choruses , which are accompanied — in contrast to the merely continuo supported solos — by the orchestra ( three violins and continuo for harpsichords , which are usually joined by arpe , liuti , tiorbe e violoni ) , not merely doubling the voices but sometimes playing independently : This orchestra is also employed in three unusually extended sinfonie to the Prologue and Second and Third Acts , that to the prologue consisting of 11 ( slow ) bars in quadruple time , a canzone of 32 bars with echo-effects of forte and piano emphasized by the scoring : 7 bars in triple time , and 21 in quadruple . |
| 29 | The ventral arm plates are pentagonal to square with a rounded or sometimes concave distal edge ; they are usually separated throughout the arm . |
| 30 | Since registration forms are usually despatched in the autumn , and in any event well before this last election was announced , Ms Heseltine obviously knew something that the rest of us did n't . |