Example sentences of "it [be] usually [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The railway and the many stories about it are usually mentioned in guidebooks as being one of the local points of interest . |
| 2 | So it 's usually made by stoichiometrically adding water to ethylene over an acid catalyst . |
| 3 | and it 's usually elected in |
| 4 | It 's usually referred to as neg |
| 5 | We covered this command earlier in the series ; it 's usually placed in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file and reads something like this : |
| 6 | At first it will be surrounded and sniffed and if it appears friendly then a good licking follows and if this is accepted by the stranger then it 's usually used for a good old scratch . |
| 7 | It is usually stopped from six to fifteen inches from the hook , but this can be increased or decreased for special situations that demand either a longer or shorter tail . |
| 8 | Either staff or other residents may initiate this segregation , and it is usually based on behaviour that is seen as disruptive , so those who are segregated in this way are not necessarily all suffering from dementia . |
| 9 | It is usually based on the percentage of those graduating with ‘ good ’ degrees , ie those who obtain first or upper second class degrees . |
| 10 | It is usually stimulated by agents which increase intracellular cyclic AMP , for example , secretin in the bile and pancreatic ducts and prostaglandin E 2 in the duodenum . |
| 11 | This condition is known as ‘ familial hypercholesterolaemia ’ ( too much cholesterol in the blood ) and it is usually treated with drugs and a strict diet . |
| 12 | For the most part MA atrophies and consequently the media in recent insects is generally MP , although it is usually designated by the symbol M. The Odonata and Plecoptera , however , seem to be unusual in retaining MA and not MP , while further research is needed into the constitution of the media in other Orthopteroid insects . |
| 13 | The British Mesozoic Committee ( who concerned themselves with such matters ) therefore found it impossible to accept the stratotype concept as it is usually proclaimed on the continent . |
| 14 | Because it is an interlocutory judgement it is usually heard before a master of the High Court , and a defendant only has to show a good arguable case for the plaintiff 's application to fail . |
| 15 | Up he went to the ledge overlooking the Dress Circle , on which he was able to take a stance — although today it is usually ignored in the thrust of a runout towards the top . |
| 16 | Yet it is usually ignored in school management training . |
| 17 | It is usually followed by a substantial improvement in the patient 's condition . |
| 18 | It is usually limited to this country and your case will be considered only if there is ‘ a reasonable prospect of success ’ . |
| 19 | It is usually formed from lightweight prefabricated sections which are locked together to form scaffolding of the desired length and height on which boarding is placed for the working area . |
| 20 | The term ‘ gender ’ as applied to grammar originated , as did many other grammatical terms , in the linguistic scholarship of ancient Greece — it is usually credited to protagoras . |
| 21 | Today it is usually decanted against an electric light or white background . |
| 22 | If there is a common culture at all it is usually expressed as part of the public world of government and state . |
| 23 | It is usually expressed as the number of moles of solute in one litre ( that is , one cubic decimetre ) of solution : where n(X) denotes the amount of solute X , Vdenotes the volume of solution and [ X ] denotes the concentration of solute X in solution . |
| 24 | It is usually expressed in the vaguest terms , like a horoscope in the newspapers . |
| 25 | The historian 's main points or ideas can usually be discovered in ( a ) the first and/or last paragraph of a chapter or section , ( b ) the first sentence of a paragraph — this is the key point for the paragraph and it is usually expressed in one sentence . |
| 26 | Welfare fraud is an ideologically emotional topic , because it is usually expressed in terms of aggregated amounts ( Uglow 1988b ) . |
| 27 | The equilibrium solubility of a mineral represents the extent to which it will dissolve in water ; it is usually expressed in ppm ( parts per million by volume ) or . |
| 28 | It is usually employed for dealing with percentages where the whole circle represents 100% and the ‘ slices ’ or proportional segments show the fractional percentages . |
| 29 | Although there are numerous interpretations of the basic herati form , it is usually employed in either an allover or medallion-and-corner format . |
| 30 | Hangman is well known as a spelling game , but it is less useful than it should be , because it is usually played as a pure guessing game . |