Example sentences of "is usually [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Speech Court ’ in the Forest of Dean is still scheduled to be held every forty days , but the verderers ' sittings are formal , and their court is usually adjourned until there is sufficient business . |
| 2 | Fault-response rule reasoning is usually adopted when a ‘ shallow ’ representation of a system is adopted . |
| 3 | Industrial action , for example , is usually seen as reprehensible — ‘ the pressure exerted by trade unions … becomes a threat to democracy rather than part of it ’ — whilst the pressure exerted by business is overlooked . |
| 4 | The work of William Acton is usually seen as representative here . |
| 5 | Whether he or she is welcome or not in the situation ( and , according to circumstance and the individual part of each member in it , the " Welfare " will be seen as a saving and succouring agency , an interfering nuisance or an outright threat ) , the social worker is usually seen as in a position of some power — as in a position to alter the situation or at least to make some expert attempt to alter it . |
| 6 | Unnecessary dependency is usually seen as detrimental to mental health . |
| 7 | A mandatory offer is usually seen as something to be avoided because |
| 8 | The directors of this project found that it was not enough simply to do what is usually done when there is a desire to maximize the performance of paraprofessionals , that is , to provide them with appropriate training . |
| 9 | ( this is usually done when the carriage is at the right , when there is one more row to knit before changing colour ) . |
| 10 | The Cartesian equation for a horizontal parabola is usually given as y ² = 4 ax , where the vertex of the parabola passes through the origin and the curve has one-fold symmetry about the positive x axis . |
| 11 | M36 is usually given as slightly brighter than M37 ; to me it looks fainter , though more condensed , and again there is a hint of resolution with × 20 . |
| 12 | The pig 's range is usually given as Java , Madura and Bawean , but you can subtract Madura now , since that 's been deforested and thus depigged ( de-everythinged , in fact ) . |
| 13 | The explanation that is usually given as to why we do n't see broken cups gathering themselves together off the floor and jumping back onto the table is that it is forbidden by the second law of thermodynamics . |
| 14 | Credit facilities are not normally available as payment is usually made when the goods are ordered . |
| 15 | However , Mill is usually understood as holding that there may be two pleasures of which the less pleasant is the better in virtue of its higher quality , and that it is then morally more important to promote it than the other . |
| 16 | ‘ Room dressing ’ is usually ignored unless it 's important for some reason . |
| 17 | But the work which really made Wordsworth 's reputation , The Excursion ( 1814 ) , is usually dismissed as almost unreadable ; it offers Wordsworth 's mature opinions ‘ on Man , on Nature , and Society ’ , and one must grant that , as The Prelude was not published in 1814 , it appeared to be his most considerable poem . |
| 18 | Although scholars have noticed instability in initial h spellings in early English , the traditional view is that there is little reliable evidence for ‘ [ h ] -dropping ’ in English much before the end of the eighteenth century , and earlier instability in spelling is usually dismissed as unreliable in handbook accounts . |
| 19 | The effect of housing developments is usually dismissed as being small unless the developments are very large — typical estimates are around one half a child aged 0–16 per household . |
| 20 | A Receiver is usually appointed if there are assets over £5000 . |
| 21 | A social worker is usually involved because a person has ceased to be fully independent in some aspect of daily living . |
| 22 | Tomorrow is usually explained as I am going to the theatre tomorrow but with all the slots elided except the adjunct tomorrow . |
| 23 | One out-break in the Netherlands involed the consumption of raw herring which harboured the larvae in their muscles , but the most widespread endemic cycle is usually recognised as being between seals and cod , and for this reason there is pressure in some fishing communities for the reduction of seal populations in order to diminish the economic loss resulting from rejection of fish at inspection . |
| 24 | Occam syntax is usually linearised as in |
| 25 | Throughout the training , landing out is usually treated as such a serious misdemeanour that the inexperienced pilot is often influenced into trying desperately hard to get back if he either inadvertently drifts away from the site or gets lost during a local soaring flight . |
| 26 | Time for payment is usually treated as being a warranty unless the contract states otherwise or the circumstances suggest a different interpretation ; see , for example , section 10(1) of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 . |
| 27 | The third , which is usually regarded as representing the rung of the ‘ ladder ’ below reckless wounding or GBH ( contrary to section 20 ) but above common assault , is assault occasioning actual bodily harm . |
| 28 | A true ovipositor is usually regarded as appendicular and is dealt with in the next section . |
| 29 | Archaeology is usually regarded as having its beginnings in the mid 16th century with the work of topographers such as John Leland ( 1506–1552 ) who was employed by Henry VIII as ‘ Keeper of King 's Libraries ’ and so travelled extensively . |
| 30 | To abuse it , by sending false information , is usually regarded as wrong , and can , in certain circumstances , incur the punishment of imprisonment or a fine . |