Example sentences of "usually a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result has been a noticeable increase in the number of pilots who suddenly find themselves faced with a situation far beyond their control , usually a situation that they had not even considered at the start of the flight . |
| 2 | Treatment is usually a lotion which kills the lice and nits in a few easy applications . |
| 3 | However , most two pack systems , similar to our own Wood Bleach , do not contain any acid and as Mr Leach himself points out the ‘ A ’ solution is usually a strong alkaline . |
| 4 | The ‘ A ’ solution is usually a strong alkaline . |
| 5 | When pasting your template on the piece of veneer selected for the outline — usually a dark wood — try to arrange for the thinnest parts of the design to run along the grain . |
| 6 | Sometimes a doctor will send the certificate direct to the Registrar , but it is always necessary for whoever is arranging the funeral to attend at the Registrar 's office , this is usually a close family member but does not have to be . |
| 7 | The Act imposes a duty on all holders of health records , usually a hospital or GP , to disclose information on application by a patient . |
| 8 | French polish is usually a dark brown colour , but as a collective noun it includes button , white , transparent and garnet polishes , which are made with various types of shellac . |
| 9 | Button polish is usually a more orange colour than French , and garnet is darker . |
| 10 | A printed DXF file is quickly recognisable by consisting mainly of a narrow strip of short lines down the left hand margin of each page , usually a large number of pages , and a great deal of white paper . |
| 11 | Companies wishing to enter the waste disposal business at this level must demonstrate to the local Waste Disposal Authority ( usually a county council , but in some cities and in Wales a more local authority ) that they can meet various criteria , although the authority may be over-ruled on appeal to the Secretary of State for the Environment . |
| 12 | This in large part won in return their acquiescence in the research , at least for the majority , even though this was usually a reluctant and resigned co-operation . |
| 13 | There 's usually a restaurant and shop on site though . |
| 14 | Usually a priest matters more by what he is than by what he says . |
| 15 | Usually a standard letter is sent if the tape is unsatisfactory or inappropriate . |
| 16 | Charlie Mears , the bank clerk , however , is more usually a secondrate poet who does not understand the value of his ‘ dreams ’ , scorning to think of them in terms of actual reincarnations , though these dreams are so vivid that reality and unreality seem mixed . |
| 17 | In Iraq we have ‘ summer cinema ’ , usually a building next to the real cinema . |
| 18 | As far as personalities are concerned , the second type of employer is frequently the sort of man who forms the backbone of the ultra-right in Britain and is usually a racist in the most extreme and overt sense . |
| 19 | There 's nothing unusual about clogged up roads in London , but this was the school half-term holidays — usually a haven of relatively clear tarmac , a glorious window of opportunity to leave home for the office a quarter of an hour later . |
| 20 | Building and running a stadium that would hold tens of thousands of spectators was an expensive business and not usually a profitable one . |
| 21 | Eradication of the less serious fungi is usually a simple matter of cutting out and burning the infected timber . |
| 22 | Sunday is usually a day of urgency — talks , Mass , lunch , conclusion , benediction and sad farewells follow in quick succession , and yet people feel uplifted and refreshed . |
| 23 | ‘ You only have your own narrow vision — and that 's not usually a good thing . |
| 24 | There was usually a passage which went from one wing to the other and crossed the open hall at first floor level . |
| 25 | At the beginning of the annual costing exercises there is usually a significant gap between the targets set by the Treasury and the genuine requirements of the Services , which no amount of discounting can bridge . |
| 26 | But their source of stability is usually a close link to a main bank which , especially in Germany and Japan , monitors management and , in effect , underwrites other banks ' loans . |
| 27 | From the Reformation onwards the Chancellor was usually a layman : Bishop Williams under James I and Charles I was the last clerical Chancellor . |
| 28 | Again the Chancellor comes to be usually a lawyer : Lord Shaftesbury under Charles II was the last Chancellor who had never been a practising lawyer . |
| 29 | It vests in the first instance in ‘ personal representatives ’ , namely the executor appointed by the will , or where there is no will or no executor appointed under the will , in the administrator — usually a person interested in the property — appointed by the court . |
| 30 | The Post Office was a great centre for gossip as there was usually a queue there . |