Example sentences of "usually [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peripheries in relatively advanced societies which have undergone the process of homogenisation described by Shils may be susceptible to investigation by pluralist methods , if only because the overwhelming predominance of a specific value-system ensures that peripheral conflict is usually limited to items which do not impinge on the central elite values . |
| 2 | Of course , from a strictly scientific viewpoint these individual biographical studies can be criticised on the grounds that they are biased towards rather special cases ; added to which , as Becker points out , such accounts were usually written by clinicians whose professional interest in the abnormal inevitably caused them to focus on signs of pathology . |
| 3 | Separation anxieties are usually exhibited by dogs which have become too attached to the family . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The reader can no doubt think of other properties usually ascribed to Z which we have so far failed to mention . |
| 6 | In this respect interest is often directed towards identifying which form of bargaining structure is the most ‘ efficient ’ , where efficiency is usually defined in terms which attach primarily to managerial interests ( Ogden , 1982b ) . |
| 7 | Leadership is usually defined in terms which relate a ‘ vision ’ of the future to some ‘ strategies ’ for achieving it , which are capable of co-opting support , compliance and teamwork in its achievement and serve to motivate and sustain commitment to its purpose ( after Kotter , 1988 : 25–6 ) . |
| 8 | This condition is usually associated with bulbs which have naturalised and , having been inadequately maintained , they gradually become less and less vigorous and do not have sufficient energy to produce flowers . |
| 9 | This family is characterised externally by thickened skin covering the disk and arms which conceals the reduced or fragmented plates of scales ; rudimentary and inconspicuous radial shields ; the jaws usually as broad as long or longer than broad armed with simple spine-like or broad scale-like rugose papillae ; the second oral tentacle pore may arise within the mouth slit as in Ophiomyxa , or more superficially and nearly outside the mouth slip as in Ophioscolex and Ophiophrixus ; oral area usually covered with skin which may obscure the underlying plates ; the arm spines erect laterally placed , covered with thickened skin . |
| 10 | A benign analysis of black psychology is usually reserved for characteristics which have relatively low status within psychology : for school students ' high self-esteem , for instance , rather than their achievement motivation ; or for supportive family and social relationships . |
| 11 | Pain is usually allied to behaviour which will protect injured parts and provide better conditions for local recovery . |