Example sentences of "[adv] routine " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though all this may sound complicated , after the first year 's practice it becomes merely routine . |
| 2 | Half a minute later another Frenchman sent his pousse-pousse puller staggering in the gutter with a blow to the head after an apparent argument about the fare , and Joseph realized with a shock that such beatings were merely routine . |
| 3 | It was not an urgent assignment , only routine . |
| 4 | Luckily the weather was so awful that nothing was flying , so there was only routine work to attend to . |
| 5 | In one patient ( patient 4 ) only routine sections were available for analysis . |
| 6 | The two-armed machine 's designers at Patscentre , Cambridge , say it will take over routine laboratory tasks such as assay work , culture transfer and chemical sampling . |
| 7 | Just routine , Peter , but we do n't want that drunken fool getting into mischief . |
| 8 | ‘ Just routine , ’ he said , smiling . |
| 9 | ‘ Just routine . ’ |
| 10 | It 's just routine , honestly . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's just routine — you know — accidents . |
| 12 | Whether or not routine patrolling of neighbourhoods was an economical use of manpower , there was no doubt that it reflected a heartfelt public desire to see more policemen on the beat . |
| 13 | Although patients with events usually undergo biochemical and metabolic investigations , blood gas measurements on the arrival of such patients in the accident and emergency department are not routine . |
| 14 | Aside from the fact that he does n't actually discuss it in any detail , there is little more than a disappointed huffing and puffing at the exhaustion of the avant-garde 's shock value ( backed up by a particularly crass quotation from Peter Bürger about Duchamp 's readymades ) and some utterly routine panting over the outlandish prices being currently paid for Van Goghs — plus a quotation from a sub-Warholian Manhattan ‘ artist ’ answering an art magazine questionnaire with a few smart remarks about business and producing art for the market . |
| 15 | Gorbachev 's otherwise adventurous address to an ideology conference in December 1984 , shortly before his assumption of the general secretaryship , was again wholly routine in its reference to the ‘ real equality of all nations and nationalities , their further all-round development and convergence , indissoluble brotherly friendship , deep family identity [ and the ] formation of a new historical community — the Soviet people ’ ( Brezhnev could hardly have put it better ) . |
| 16 | Because of the difficulty in isolating C. trachomatis , the time it takes to do so , and the expense involved , there are very few laboratories prepared to take on routine chlamydia isolation . |
| 17 | After months of trips to the Dahran air base in the war for Kuwait , the journey 's become distinctly routine . |
| 18 | Moreover , commercial monitoring of the environment is now also routine , notably to predict crop yields in the main grain-growing areas and hence facilitate the buying of futures . |
| 19 | Torture is also routine in criminal investigations , even for the most petty offense . |
| 20 | Then , there was a description of the child 's functioning : he had taken a long time to settle into school , e.g. routine and order of the class . |
| 21 | Production Control Support : LIFESPAN provides a number of automatic mechanisms ( e.g. routine administration , modification interlocks ) which help to enforce the orderly management of software development and its subsequent maintenance . |
| 22 | Production Control Support : LIFESPAN provides a number of automatic mechanisms ( e.g. routine administration , modification interlocks ) which help to enforce the orderly management of software development and its subsequent maintenance . |
| 23 | Individuals in the party and the government came to use the situation in whatever way they could to optimize their own position , ranging from exercising the increased power which district and regional officials now had over the citizenry , to carrying out routine tasks perfunctorily while acquiring a significant income from black market activities . |
| 24 | Administrator : carrying out routine procedures . |
| 25 | Social workers , who have carried out routine supervision under CYPA , are said to concentrate too much on family dynamics whilst ignoring the child 's educational difficulties . |
| 26 | Decisions were made at the top , by monarch , Council , or minister , not , as in a modern bureaucracy , by officials in the lower and middle echelons , who then mostly carried out routine tasks . |
| 27 | There may be one or two senior field officers whose job is partly to give administrative assistance to the area supervisor , partly to carry out routine pollution control work in their own districts . |
| 28 | In the early years of the century , laboratories were for one or two people , with assistants and perhaps a friend or two to watch , to perform research ; or else to carry out routine analyses for a fee ; or a mixture of these things . |
| 29 | Carrying out routine file back-up . |
| 30 | Mr Stanley had been carrying out routine maintenance work . |