Example sentences of "be usually [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're usually outgrown before they 're outworn , leaving mothers with cupboard full of perfect clothes . |
| 2 | They 're usually run by idiots ’ , he said , ‘ stuffed shirt idiots ’ . |
| 3 | they 're usually made between six and eight months before the first person would move in |
| 4 | We 're usually done by five , you know , so there 's |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Now the diabetic , I 'll leave that for a moment because I 'll do that in a moment , erm the absorption , usually gardeners , agricultural people that have , dealing with ordinary insecticides , pesticides , herbicides and all the other -cides that er , are about today , they 're usually protected , but sometimes either you get somebody in a garden with and using all these things and they , they do n't read packets do they any more ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Weekends we 're usually booked up in advance , you see , even in the close season . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | These indices are usually validated against utilisation rates ( see above ) or by how well they correlate with various measures of morbidity available routinely . |
| 12 | They are usually mounted on a fabric backing for ease of handling , and are fixed using conventional ceramic tile adhesive . |
| 13 | Solar panels are usually mounted on the roof of a house and used for domestic heating . |
| 14 | Taxation of income , personal expenditure and wealth are usually viewed as direct taxation , whereas taxes on the sale of goods and services are seen as indirect taxation . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | for proceeding to or returning from any garage , auction room or other place at which vehicles are usually stored or usually or periodically offered for sale and at which the vehicle is to be or has been stored or is to be or has been offered for sale as the case may be ; |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Note that overflow records arise singly , however the prime data area is formatted , and that they are usually stored singly in indexed sequential files ( but see discussion of VSAM on p. 266 ) . |
| 19 | Small files that demand multiple-key handling are usually stored on magnetic tape and processed sequentially . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The hole stays the same size as the dog grows , but few of them disappear altogether and are usually operated on at some stage . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Outside steel and coal , minority representation means that the committees are usually balanced to favour the employer , and information is restricted . |
| 24 | Many sites where archaeological remains are on public display have never been fully excavated , and any further excavations on these sites are usually undertaken to add to the information on display . |
| 25 | Fish and chips , and other fast foods , are usually cooked in palm oil or palm oil blends . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Payments given to employees who have to replace children 's school uniforms or pay subsistence costs so that children can continue their education in the old location are usually listed separately from disturbance allowances in company relocation policies . |
| 28 | Eurobonds are usually listed on the London or Luxembourg stock markets . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | These are usually studied by separating them from a crushed rock with heavy liquids , notably tetrabromoethane , which is extremely toxic . |