Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] is usually " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He or she is usually a well-known public figure , who need not have any connection with the academic world ( such as a member of the Royal Family ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Crilly does not feel alienated by my visits to the Heath , though he confesses to missing me by day and he is usually at home when I return . |
| 6 | This is a slow launch which picks up speed and fades several times , and it is usually caused by a shortage of fuel or mechanical trouble on the winch or car . |
| 7 | The Labour Party 's ‘ Irish unity ’ excuse is a logical nonsense and it is usually tagged on as an afterthought to the comradely talk about the SDLP . |
| 8 | For me , intelligence and sexuality go together , and it is usually with the intelligence in a person 's eyes that I first fall in love . |
| 9 | Hindu society is predominantly a patrifocal society , and it is usually the men who make up the socially dominant group . |
| 10 | The Face runs on a shoestring but sits on the same shelf as Vogue and Vanity Fair , the shiny starships of megalomedia , and it is usually better looking , nearly always a better read . |
| 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 | And it is usually taken to mean the coordinated management of all the information-based resources of the firm : those that are IT-based ; but also those that are not ( yet ? ) |
| 13 | The idea behind self-service shopping is that goods can ‘ sell themselves ’ , and it is usually very successful . |
| 14 | This sometimes happens to men in middle age , and it is usually only a passing phase . |
| 15 | ‘ So they are well above the crowd and it is usually a lot safer than most displays . |
| 16 | One six year old painted a picture of a strawberry in a murky green in spite of the bright red of the original fruit , and it is usually the red/green part of the spectrum that is affected , although blue/yellow deficiency may occur or there may even be a total loss of colour perception . |
| 17 | Concrete must be used within four house of mixing , and it is usually easier to keep up with the latter type , which is laid as it is mixed . |
| 18 | The usual trouble with nebulæ is that their surface brightness is low , and it is usually best to work with a comparatively low magnification . |
| 19 | Thus pornographic representations are to be condemned because they reinforce the desires to treat people , and it is usually women , i n the way I have been arguing they are treated . |
| 20 | and it is usually necessary to remove it by flocculation with alum or alum with sodium aluminate , followed by filtration ; the final pH should be adjusted so as to be close to neutrality on the alkaline side . |
| 21 | The majority of archaeological finds are broken , damaged or decayed , and it is usually difficult to envisage what a site looked like in its heyday by simply looking at the excavated remains . |
| 22 | Sometimes it can : I have seen it happen , and it is usually with the better commercials . |
| 23 | Sintered glass is superheated to provide a myriad of tiny cavities , and it is usually claimed that both aerobic ( nitrite and ammonia converting on the outside of the media ) and anaerobic bacteria ( nitrate converting on the inside of the media ) will thrive in such media . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 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 | The tips of the radial shields are sometimes visible and it is usually possible to see the extent of the shields beneath the disk scales . |
| 27 | Such a well-developed economy led to the greater exploitation of geological resources , and the English landscape witnessed quarrying of stone and ores on a scale not seen before — in the Forest of Dean ( coal and iron ) , Derbyshire and the Mendips ( lead ) , Cornwall ( tin ) and Dolaucothi in Wales ( gold ) — although most areas were worked and reworked later on and it is usually impossible to isolate the Roman element . |
| 28 | The problem with device drivers is that they have to be installed in your CONFIG.SYS file , and it is usually helpful to have an install routine guide you through the process — lord knows , just about every other program you come across these days insists on writing to CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT . |
| 29 | There is always News at morning service , and it is usually Great News . |
| 30 | Both E and G depend on the shape of the specimen and it is usually necessary to define the shape carefully for any measurement . |