Example sentences of "[pers pn] is usually [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet he or she is usually limited by lack of resources , lack of accommodation , lack of contact outside the institution and downright sexual repressiveness within from any sexual expression whatever . |
| 2 | The chief academic and administrative officer of a Scottish university , he or she is usually styled ‘ principal and vice chancellor ’ , the latter title used when standing in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions . |
| 3 | She was the wife of SHIVA in Hindu mythology ; the Queen of Death and Terror , she is usually represented as drinking the blood of a victim and dancing on his corpse . |
| 4 | Every bride looks beautiful — this is partly because of what she is wearing and partly because she is usually glowing with happiness . |
| 5 | If the character moves sideways with the head , body and arms in some way averted from the front , i.e. croisé , possibly with a twist of the shoulders , he or she is usually playing some evil or cunning person . |
| 6 | She is usually shown wearing a religious habit ( although she was never a nun ) and either surrounded by or wearing garlands of roses . |
| 7 | She is usually working on a series of paintings and says , ‘ One picture sets you off on a road , and I have to make perhaps six paintings before I come to a fork , onto another road ’ . |
| 8 | She is usually working on a series of paintings and says , ‘ One picture sets you off on a road , and I have to make perhaps six paintings before I come to a fork , onto another road ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is usually said that the introduction of NEP pacified the peasants , but the Famine had a quicker effect in this respect . |
| 11 | Galois , it is usually said , coined the word group at this time and introduced the concept of normal subgroup . |
| 12 | It is usually said that they are quite passive at this stage . |
| 13 | It is usually said that in the voice from heaven at the baptism of Jesus we have an example of the bath qol . |
| 14 | It is usually said that repetition is used for emphasis . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is usually based on the percentage of those graduating with ‘ good ’ degrees , ie those who obtain first or upper second class degrees . |
| 17 | The invention and development of the material means of cultural production is a remarkable chapter of human history , yet it is usually underplayed , by comparison with the invention and development of what are more easily seen as forms of material production , in food , tools , shelter and utilities . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If another male approaches , it is usually chased off immediately . |
| 20 | This condition is known as ‘ familial hypercholesterolaemia ’ ( too much cholesterol in the blood ) and it is usually treated with drugs and a strict diet . |
| 21 | The mantle-crust boundary is marked by the Mohorovicic discontinuity ( or the Moho as it is usually abbreviated ) . |
| 22 | Alternatively , where a local plan is in existence it is usually stated policy to confine certain types of industry to particular areas , restricting land use in and around residential areas to that of a ‘ light industrial ’ nature within Class III of the Town and Country Planning ( Use Classes ) Order 1972 ; defined as : |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Yet it is usually ignored in school management training . |
| 28 | The derivation of the birds from a reptilian ( possibly dinosaur ) ancestor is certain , and because the earliest fossil bird , Archaeopteryx , is Jurassic in age , it is usually assumed that the split from the reptiles occurred in the earlier part of the period . |
| 29 | It is usually assumed ( see e.g. LoLordo and Ross 1987 ; Ross and LoLordo 1987 ) that such explicit training is necessary for a stimulus to acquire modulatory , occasion-setting properties ( but see also Bonardi ( 1989 , 1991 ) ) . |
| 30 | It is usually assumed that this is a deficiency in the enzymes ( see p 18 ) that detoxify foreign chemicals . |