Example sentences of "and usually [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chinese rice served in the course of a meal is always white , and usually prepared by steaming . |
| 2 | These are bright yellow and usually mounted on poles outside the entrance to the building . |
| 3 | The cuts were always superficial and usually consisted of between 20 and 40 neat parallel scratches on her wrist and forearm . |
| 4 | The contractions were not related to swallowing and usually consisted of several bursts of contractions , each burst composed of two to five simultaneous contractions of rather low amplitude ( 20 mm Hg ) . |
| 5 | This silence is important , and usually neglected in primary schools . |
| 6 | She would then speak as if talking to herself , but what she said was aimed at me and usually struck to the core of my being , so that I was stunned into silence … |
| 7 | They are produced from flowers and other plants , are brewed with boiling water in the same way as tea and usually drunk without milk . |
| 8 | Ideal for popping in handbags and desk drawers and usually priced at 99p each , we have 100 sets of all three to give away . |
| 9 | Produced in the Auvergne and usually ripened for about two months , Gaperon is expensive . |
| 10 | There were many stations which , whilst not being strictly private , were set up by a narrow section of the public and usually barred to casual travellers . |
| 11 | This agenda-setting thesis is very plausible and usually treated as an established law of social science in introductory textbooks , though much more sceptically in research reports . |
| 12 | Access to the island is permitted and usually made by hired boat from Tarbet across the Sound of Handa ; to avoid disappointment , visits should be pre-arranged . |
| 13 | The exit is by the ladies and usually blocked with beer crates . ’ |
| 14 | The paragraph idea(s) : Most historians put just one main idea in each paragraph , often expressed in one sentence and usually placed at the beginning of the paragraph . |
| 15 | The latter are more specialised , and usually based on a single large manufacturer . |
| 16 | Erm you need to be really on top of indices particularly negative indices and particularly negative fractional indices and usually expressed as a decimal because when you 're looking at circuits and stuff like that , you 'll get the erm you know , the answer will be given in this sort of form . |
| 17 | Yet for women religious , celibacy has come to be a statement in direct opposition to western cultural norms of women having to be available to men and usually defined by their relationships to them . |
| 18 | She was a tall , nervous woman who 'd gone grey early ; she always wore large bifocals and usually dressed in tweeds . |
| 19 | The method of distribution by overhead lines on wooden poles ( rather than underground cables ) was cheaper per mile , and usually tolerated in the countryside ( especially when the Boards pointed out that it was a pre-condition of receiving the benefit of electricity supplies ) , but even so distribution to scattered rural premises was more expensive per consumer than in compact urban areas . |
| 20 | It is numbered and usually printed in red . |
| 21 | Fortunately , we seldom needed to call upon the doctor , but our daughter , as an infant , was obliged to submit to various injections , and usually responded with great violence to these administrations . |
| 22 | Quoom and Kerman , the vast majority are now made in India and usually marketed as Indo Mirs . |
| 23 | Characteristic of large areas of southern Spain , notably the regions of Andalusia , Extremadura and La Mancha , were the vast private estates or latifundios , often owned by absentee proprietors and usually worked by armies of desperately impoverished landless labourers . |
| 24 | Opportunities to observe how the novice 's area supervisor or other , more experienced , colleagues handle negotiations or use their discretion are limited and usually confined to the bigger pollutions or more intractable problems . |
| 25 | Surprisingly perhaps , while blatantly sexist material in the form of caricatures is not common , and usually used with critical intention , it is fair to say that many social studies texts produced for examination classes frequently neglected women , though there were some exceptions . |
| 26 | ‘ I always take him out in knee-pads , and usually put on exercise bandages , as we are still wary of his split tendon operation . |
| 27 | In British English , examples of this are [ h ] -dropping and glottalling , which are regionally widespread and usually marked for social status or style . |
| 28 | They are the most common type and usually marked on the maps as " an dun . " |
| 29 | They are the most common type and usually marked on the maps as " an dun . " |
| 30 | Anchor worm ( Lernaea ) is similar , in that it is a crustacean parasite and usually introduced with new ( especially recently imported ) Koi . |