Example sentences of "[is] usually [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The research " team " is usually just a single individual , or perhaps a married couple , with maybe a local assistant . |
| 2 | In all cases students taking a course ( which is usually either a two-year diploma course or a one-year course ) are expected to return to their country on completion of training . |
| 3 | The decoration on the discs , which seldom have names on , is usually either a variation of the Christian monogram IHS , or else the so-called ‘ Basque cross ’ , which is a little like a four-leafed clover and has sometimes been argued , in an attempt to find an origin for the Basques in the East , to derive from the old Hindu symbol of the swastika . |
| 4 | Settling into the first interview is usually quite a tense period . |
| 5 | A characteristic feature of the placebo effect is that it does not last all that long : it is usually only a matter of weeks , and two to six months is about the most that can be expected : If a patient responds to a new treatment and is still well after a year , it is unlikely to be a placebo effect . |
| 6 | This sometimes happens to men in middle age , and it is usually only a passing phase . |
| 7 | ' But to book-collectors publication in parts is usually only a matter of much interest with such fiction writers as Dickens , whose Pickwick Papers ( to give them their familiar short title ) established a great new vogue in 1836–37 . |
| 8 | Caroline 's comment : Feeding problems are extremely common in young children and being fussy about food is usually only a passing phase . |
| 9 | It is helpful , for example , to look at past questions , bearing in mind that there is usually only a limited range of possible questions which are likely to be asked about any given topic . |
| 10 | Although the imputation system of corporation tax means that there is usually only a marginal difference in the tax cost of the two funding methods ( if the payer can absorb the ACT against sufficient mainstream corporation tax payable ) , this is usually in favour of the payment of deductible interest ; and |
| 11 | The spotted eagle owl is usually more an inhabitant of open country than is the Verreaux eagle owl , but it has been recorded nesting at the bottom of a 9 m shaft in a cave , well into the twilight zone ( Brain , 1981 ) . |
| 12 | There 's usually just a ransom demand and then a longish gap to put the parents in a panic . ’ |
| 13 | but when you get a co , like you call flu , it 's usually just a head cold . |
| 14 | Right it 's usually only a small quantity needed , because although it is it 's used it 's continually sort of restored . |
| 15 | As I said , I work with Phil 's band and Genesis , and there 's usually about a year off in between so I 'd like to do another record of my own . ’ |