Example sentences of "there be the usual " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are the usual look-behind-you routines . |
| 2 | There are the usual singers and some local news , but the main item is an often grisly tour of Vietnamese refugee camps around the world . |
| 3 | As with any such study there are the usual problems of ecological analysis and influences of migration , together with issues of separating out the risk factors under investigation from possible confounding factors . |
| 4 | Then there are the usual bunch of hangers-on . ’ |
| 5 | This silver will ease your passage and there are the usual letters of accreditation . ’ |
| 6 | As with all taxation bases , there are the usual coarse and fine questions of definition . |
| 7 | As well as the points mentioned there are the usual claims for Latin that it improves competence in English , facilitates the learning of other languages and so on . |
| 8 | Next morning at ‘ stand-to' ’ there were the usual reports of wounded which were backed up by the increased activity of the jeeps carrying the casualties to the rear , among them several Airborne troops . |
| 9 | There were the usual minor excitements : a murder in the churchyard , a few muggings in the back-streets and alleys , and the election of a new Mayor with all the bribery and corruption which accompanied such an event . |
| 10 | When we came home three days later , there were the usual visits to the two hospitals , more changing of plaster , more tablets to be taken … . |
| 11 | There were the usual number of new faces to get used to , but they all seem a bit vague to me now , except of course for the one face that greeted me on my arrival in the Guard Room . |
| 12 | On the other hand they did n't ignore education , and there were the usual perceptive comments on the science curriculum in Britain 's schools . |
| 13 | There were the usual games in the playground , children chasing each other , boys grabbing girls , everybody laughing and enjoying themselves . |
| 14 | There were the usual long-hairs and burned-out heads hanging at the back in velvet trousers or dirty jeans , patchwork boots and sheepskin coats , discussing bus fares to Fez , Barclay James Harvest and bread . |
| 15 | There were the usual bricks , of course , but how do you explain a steel-capped boot , or a marmalade jar , or a complete , if rusty , electric junction box ? |
| 16 | There were the usual bevelled panels on the lower part of the doors and bulkheads . |
| 17 | There were the usual pairs of opening lights over each saloon window , all each side being opened or closed together by a small lever . |
| 18 | There were the usual Tidswell type three slat lifeguards and Philipson type guards on the offside . |
| 19 | There were the usual semi-elliptical springs at the ends supporting the body . |
| 20 | Of course there were the usual fights , but one regiment soon found that its men were generally taking more punishment than they were giving out . |
| 21 | The rents were raised , to general dissatisfaction , but were still inadequate to cover the maintenance costs of a poorly constructed building and there were the usual acrimonious disputes between the tenants and the landlords . |
| 22 | And , of course , there were the usual people demonstrating their company 's latest products with the aid of a public address system and a microphone . |
| 23 | There were the usual quiet couples and at a discreet corner table , a rather superior single lady who kept nose in a library book and herself to herself . |
| 24 | There were the usual problems of moving — Valerie Eliot , apart from having to scrub and prepare the flat , was also forced to continue with her old secretarial duties since her successor 's father was ill . |
| 25 | There were the usual exclusion criteria for any erm trial of malignant disease . |
| 26 | There were the usual circulars , a few invitations to nothing very exciting and a batch of bills . |
| 27 | There were the usual arguments about freedom of choice and to these were added the less usual one about equity , allowing local authority tenants to share in the economic benefits of owner-occupation . |
| 28 | There were the usual dubious court chronicles , but the accounts of the different palace intrigues — the competing factions , the endless round of murders , blindings , stranglings , stabbings and poisonings — seemed only to confuse , not in any way to illuminate the age . |
| 29 | Outside , there were the usual hospital sounds — ambulant patients moving about the ward in slippers , nurses talking at the nurses ' station , the distant squeaking wheel of a cleaner 's trolley — but in here it was very quiet . |
| 30 | Well , there were the usual inhabitants , of course , but nobody with the collar turned up reading a newspaper under a streetlamp , say . |