Example sentences of "[conj] [is] usually [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The paucity of inflammatory cells in the lamina propria that is usually seen with this type of gastritis makes it difficult to argue that the increased synthesis derives from inflammatory cells .
2 The explanation that is usually given as to why we do n't see broken cups gathering themselves together off the floor and jumping back onto the table is that it is forbidden by the second law of thermodynamics .
3 It is the domestic courage and creativity of the poor in the most adverse circumstances that is usually emphasized .
4 However , I would like to see a much briefer , more targeted , memorandum than the huge document that is usually prepared by the EEB .
5 She had the Midwestern accent that is usually called ‘ flat ’ because the Midwest does n't believe that emotional emphasis makes the corn grow taller .
6 Neither boys nor girls at the moratorium stage are likely to be attracted to the science that is usually presented in our schools .
7 The doctrine that is usually referred to in the opening pages of these royal commission or ministerial committee reports is a watered-down version of the late nineteenth-century belief in democracy which inspired the system described as the Westminster model .
8 The case that is usually made out for retention is that the House of Lords nevertheless discharges a valuable constitutional function especially in the processing of uncontroversial Bills and the revision of Bills passed , perhaps with undue haste and lack of consideration , by the House of Commons .
9 This is presumably because it is seldom possible to heal the breach that is usually created by fighting a legal battle .
10 For me , however , the performance is a revelation , unearthing a vast amount of inner detail that is usually glossed over in other recordings .
11 The need to emphasise here the " pluralistic " sense of " relational " arises because not everything that is usually classified under the heading of " relations " involves a pluralist commitment , or allows of pluralist inferences .
12 It has , they said , ‘ made valuable and acceptable a building type that is usually considered unglamorous . ’
13 Is Chemical Dependency a real disease and should Doctors waste valuable time on something that is usually considered to be self induced ?
14 It is this level of normalisation that is usually used as the basis for the design of the data model , as an end result of data analysis , and for mapping onto a database ( the logical schema ) .
15 It is this level of normalisation that is usually used as the basis for the design of the data model , as an end result on data analysis .
16 There are in fact three superb courses in Kitzbühel , all surrounded by inspiring alpine scenery that 's usually bathed in summer sunshine .
17 Our modern life is based to a larger extent than is usually realised upon faith in the honesty of the other .
18 The government of George I and the Whigs never lost its credibility , but retained the support of a substantial proportion of the traditional ruling class and probably a higher proportion of the mass of the population than is usually realised .
19 These scholars , with their narrow reliance on sometimes incomplete statistics and a hypothetical input for ‘ social saving ’ , argue that the railways were much less important than is usually assumed , because if they had not existed , something else would have emerged to take their place .
20 The support of the staff and their willingness to adjust their provision and their reaction , clearly demonstrates that given the proper approach teachers are in both principle and practice more willing to review their methods and sustain alternatives than is usually acknowledged .
21 The beliefs and ideas that organisations hold about who they are and what they are trying to do and what their environment is like have a much greater tendency to realise themselves than is usually believed .
22 This article analyses the constitutional aspects behind the formation of the first and second National Governments , examining in particular the role of the king in the formation of the two governments — a role which , as will be seen , was rather more important than is usually thought .
23 It 's made the committee larger than is usually thought effective has n't it ?
24 This type of holiday attracts a much younger and more adventurous type of person than is usually associated with the cruising industry .
25 There is overwhelming evidence from many research studies to show that visual behaviours play a larger part in communications between people than is usually supposed .
26 The new Edwardians — who , as I will show , had much more in common with the original Edwardian youth than is usually supposed — swiftly gained a terrible reputation for gang fights , vandalism , street robberies , rock-and-roll cinema riots , and attacks on cafe owners and late-night bus crews .
27 The surprising conclusion they suggest is that the Council was more of a brake on the sovereignty of the Assembly than is usually supposed .
28 Thus the social and political implications of design , it is suggested , are wider than is usually supposed .
29 Though Agatha Christie was properly reticent about the breadth of her reading , it is clear to the informed student of her works that they reflect a much broader and deeper literary frame of reference than is usually admitted to this particular author .
30 Yet any study of the book and Bukharin 's subsequent writings indicate more continuity than is usually allowed for by those commentators who have only a cursory knowledge of his works .
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