Example sentences of "have usually [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 An entertained audience is actually there and listening : a bored one has usually gone to dinner .
2 Evolution in bilateral animals has usually consisted in a tendency towards more effective integration of segments .
3 The Conservative government , arguing economic planning difficulties , has usually planned in three-year blocks .
4 Jane Clairmont — who rechristened herself Claire — has usually featured as a minor and scandalous disturbance in the lives of Shelley and Byron .
5 The success of floating should be judged in the light of the fact that it has usually operated under unfavourable circumstances , and thus the concerted adoption of floating exchange rates in more stable circumstances might well yield different results and evaluation .
6 This approach has found that in close-knit , working-class urban and rural peasant communities ( the types it has usually studied to date ) , an individual 's use of nonstandard forms correlates well with their degree of integration into the community or ‘ network strength ’ .
7 Reference to the tribunal has usually come from the unions , rather than from BR management .
8 It has usually occurred by the fourteenth year but the age may vary very considerably from woman to woman and with bodily circumstance .
9 The attack is effective because it is so fast — a sort of mugger 's ‘ blitzkrieg ’ — and the dust has usually settled before anyone even realizes what has happened .
10 This has usually resulted in richer grassland and a different land use , frequently to the benefit of local settlements , but it has also deprived local centres of former defensive or navigable areas of water or marsh .
11 I mean you go to other towns , they they might not know Nottingham , but they 've usually heard of .
12 While it was vital to be well turned out , the young gallant should beware of imitating those fops who spent their time building huge and elaborate turbans : men like Mirza Abu Said , a great amir under Shah Jehan , who was so fastidious in the construction of his head-wraps that the Imperial Durbar had usually finished by the time he had finished tying it all together .
13 Secondees had usually come from supportive school staff groups .
14 On the contrary , the conventions have usually consisted of an attempt to formalise , under popular and humanitarian pressure , rules that must be considered as generally applicable .
15 They have usually relied on the grossness of the physical threat , rather than its certainty , to do the work .
16 This species is rarely seen before late October , and wintering birds have usually gone by late March or early April .
17 Recent cases , where health authorities have overspent , have usually stemmed from a failure to properly install and operate such a system .
18 When I have used these texts in workshops , we have usually started by reading them through silently , before breaking into small groups to discuss them in detail .
19 I have said consistently we do n't want to be the first in the industry , I would rather await either N A C O T , N A C O M or the U D M seeing what they , the outcome is there as we have traditionally done and then take it from there where you must agree that we have usually improved on their offer when it 's been made .
20 Mr Chapman said : ‘ I have usually got on well with newspaper proprietors , but this time I want to be in charge . ’
21 Compradors have usually identified with the interests of the TNCs , whether they are directly employed by them or not , for both encourage the transformation of traditional patterns of consumption and behaviour in developing societies , though post-imperialism theory has yet to confront this particular issue .
22 On the other hand , the explanation might lie in the study by Wagner ( 1984 ) , who stresses that researchers have usually focused upon PIMS data for an average four-year period .
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