Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [be] usually [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cold , wet and tired , we pitched the tents , and fervently hoped that Stephen 's mother would have reported us missing , as she knew that we were usually good timekeepers and normally arrived when we said we would . |
| 2 | One of the factors in the argument for right hemisphere reading by deep dyslexics is that they are usually able to read words that are highly imageable , that is readily give rise to a visual image , but they are often unable to read words that are highly abstract ( Richardson , 1975 ) . |
| 3 | That they were usually successful indicates that the thieves understood the workings of the colonial bureaucracy , and that government did not function in the way intended by higher officials . |
| 4 | Behind the apparent fluidity of the timetable there is in fact a detailed system of record-keeping so that it is usually possible to say what point each child has reached in each main subject area . |
| 5 | It is widely agreed that the lifetime reproductive success of individuals is the most satisfactory measure of fitness that it is usually possible to collect ( see Falconer , 1960 ; Cavalli-Sforza & Bodmer , 1961 ; Maynard Smith , 1969 ; Grafen , 1982 ) . |
| 6 | In this section we have seen that it is usually possible to reduce the number of accesses to synonyms by loading first the records most frequently accessed . |
| 7 | The typical economic variables used in empirical studies , variables such as output , prices and interest rates , are such that it is usually possible to think of some reason why any one of them might exert an independent influence on another . |
| 8 | The first is that it is usually preferable to make each objective refer to only one learning outcome . |
| 9 | The only comfort is to remember that it is usually foreseeable and quite unnecessary . |
| 10 | Entries are initialled so that it is usually clear who wrote what . |
| 11 | Kate Probst , of Resources for the Future , argues that it is usually fairer to penalise polluters than to leave the taxpayer to clean up dirty old sites . |
| 12 | Perversely , as it must have seemed to penal reformers , the opportunities offered by borstal training , with its reformative aims , were all too often spurned by young offenders , many of whom preferred a prison sentence to borstal training on the grounds that it was usually shorter and for a more certain period . |
| 13 | ( It is harder to see why γ should help α to resist a challenge by Β ) If the alternative strategies are ‘ resist only challenges to oneself , and ‘ resist any challenge ’ , the latter would be favoured by selection provided that it was usually advantageous . |