Example sentences of "[subord] [is] usually [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our modern life is based to a larger extent than is usually realised upon faith in the honesty of the other . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's made the committee larger than is usually thought effective has n't it ? |
| 8 | This type of holiday attracts a much younger and more adventurous type of person than is usually associated with the cruising industry . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The surprising conclusion they suggest is that the Council was more of a brake on the sovereignty of the Assembly than is usually supposed . |
| 12 | Thus the social and political implications of design , it is suggested , are wider than is usually supposed . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 4 More hanging space than is usually provided . |
| 16 | What became the Criminal Justice Act of 1961 was a relatively short statute of forty-five sections and six schedules , with more of a coherent theme than is usually found in comparable legislation . |
| 17 | It is a concession of importance , since it indicates a greater convergence between the male and female work pattern than is usually suggested . |
| 18 | They are quite expensive and contain substantially more than is usually needed . |
| 19 | Edward IV 's financial legacy was not as healthy as is usually assumed and the administration seems to have found itself juggling income and expenditure with more than usual anxiety . |
| 20 | Edward IV 's financial legacy was not as healthy as is usually assumed and the administration seems to have found itself juggling income and expenditure with more than usual anxiety . |
| 21 | This may in part have been a political move , for if he was the son of Ealdorman Æthelmær of Wessex , as is usually assumed , he came from a major West Saxon family , and had a brother , Æthelweard , executed by Cnut in 1017 and a brother-in-law ( another Æthelweard ) banished in 1020 . |
| 22 | If , as is usually argued , the course of Anglo-French relations before the Hundred Years War was largely dictated by disputes over them , their nature is highly significant . |
| 23 | The reason for this is because the requirements of continuously scanning the screen , as is usually done for a lightpen , would slow the games down too much . |
| 24 | If all the requirements are fulfilled , civil legal aid consists of representation for the purposes of proceedings , and it includes all such assistance as is usually given by a solicitor or counsel in the steps preliminary or incidental to any proceedings and all such assistance as is usually given by a solicitor or counsel in civil proceedings arriving at or giving effect to a compromise to avoid or bring to an end any proceedings . |
| 25 | If all the requirements are fulfilled , civil legal aid consists of representation for the purposes of proceedings , and it includes all such assistance as is usually given by a solicitor or counsel in the steps preliminary or incidental to any proceedings and all such assistance as is usually given by a solicitor or counsel in civil proceedings arriving at or giving effect to a compromise to avoid or bring to an end any proceedings . |
| 26 | The digi-terror which still afflicts we analogue-minded guitarists is , in reality , founded on common sense , not , as is usually stated , on our well-documented Luddite tendencies . |
| 27 | The most virulent of all jellyfish is not , as is usually claimed , the large Portuguese man-o'-war , but the sea wasp or box jelly commonly found off the shores of Australia . |
| 28 | Through our misjudgement of their knowledge , metaphor becomes a lie , and we are left with the disturbing conclusion that the truth of a message is something constructed by sender and receiver , and not only as is usually held to be the casea quality of the sender 's intention or the message itself . |
| 29 | In some industries , competition is considered to raise the costs of production rather than , as is usually expected , to reduce them . |