Example sentences of "they have usually " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is n't often that unions have taken up issues such as racial or sex discrimination or unfair dismissal , and when workers have come out on strike they have usually been slow and reluctant to make these strikes official . |
| 2 | The only site other than the ano-genital region where they may be found is in the mouth and , when there , they have usually been acquired sexually . |
| 3 | Although much work has been done in the decades since those words were written , it is still true to say that many texts in printed form do not reflect the contents of the original manuscripts with complete accuracy , although more recent printed transcriptions tend to be reliable , not least because they have usually been scanned by a number of scholars before publication . |
| 4 | They have usually been inclined to be rather self= centred all their lives in a quiet way , and this tendency has become overt and accentuated in old age . |
| 5 | Of course , by the time someone comes to see me they have usually made up their mind that hypnosis will be beneficial for them and so this is not a situation I encounter very often . |
| 6 | They have usually been caused to reconsider their position vis-à-vis the church through contact with a zealous Christian friend or by the church demonstrating a quality of life which was previously unknown to the disillusioned ‘ back-slider ’ . |
| 7 | When men get to around forty they all seem to want to have affairs with younger women … but … they have usually forgotten how to go about ‘ chatting up ’ women and so they revert to pubescent memories and do incredibly stupid things like writing letters , or , even worse , poems to the unfortunate woman . |
| 8 | Clinicians , however , have long been aware that the opposite can also be found : an excessive tendency to divergent thinking — though they have usually called it something else — which the person has difficulty in translating into focused thought . |
| 9 | They have usually planned their kidnap to the very last detail . |
| 10 | They have usually taken part in a preparatory programme through social services or the health authority , but once out of institutional care , the fragile skills , sometimes learnt over a painfully slow time , can be lost through lack of use . |
| 11 | They have usually relied on the grossness of the physical threat , rather than its certainty , to do the work . |
| 12 | Outside those sectors where temporary working has a long tradition , they have usually vigorously condemned it . |
| 13 | Wherever comprehensive psychogeriatric services have been developed , they have usually been organised around the activities of some sort of multidisciplinary outreach team drawn from the professions of nursing , occupational therapy , psychology , social work , and psychiatry . |
| 14 | They are quite rightly upset and offended as they have usually made their own decisions and are going through with them . |
| 15 | They have fewer opportunities than men to be nourished by their work , since they are more often involved in dull and repetitive jobs ; secondly , the domestic and nurturing skills in which they have usually been trained are held in lower esteem both in the home and in the workplace than administrative or management skills , so what they do is less likely to receive praise ; lastly , they are conditioned to value praise from men more highly than praise from women , who are more often their colleagues or first-level bosses . |
| 16 | Where economies in Whitehall have been made , they have usually been at the expense of services or functions . |