Example sentences of "not usually [adj] " in BNC.

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1 However , jewellery may be stolen , cattle may die and grain deteriorates in quality with the passage of time , thus wealth in these forms is inherently risky and to a certain extent illiquid , i.e. not usually suitable for instant transfer or use .
2 Although not usually life-threatening , such injuries can be debilitating or at least disfiguring .
3 The problem-orientated approach is not usually effective with such patients .
4 Unfortunately , it is not usually effective if taken long-term .
5 Old converted railway paths offer splendid opportunities , although circular walks are not usually possible .
6 It should be noted that visualization of centromeres and the central element of the SC is not usually possible in silver-stained preparations .
7 Until a prototype is produced it is , in any case , not usually possible to define the load parameters to sufficient accuracy to justify a more detailed study .
8 Cases ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) , involving chelating and bridging ligands , lead to slightly reduced frequencies for both bond stretches , down to about 1500 cm -1 for and about 900 cm -1 for , and it is not usually possible to distinguish them in this way .
9 Information on employees may exist on a company 's mini or mainframe computer but is stored in a form not usually usable or accessible by the personnel department , and mainframe information does not lend itself to interrogation on a real time basis .
10 The social worker is not usually involved in the early stages following the patient 's stroke , but may be called in later if the patient is fairly severely disabled , or is an old person likely to need long-term support at home .
11 Dinner is not usually available but there are several pubs and restaurants within walking distance .
12 Cultures of white worm are advertised in the back pages of Practical Fishkeeping but are not usually available at your regular fish store .
13 However , whereas civil servants work exclusively for ministers- and are not usually available to assist the opposition or backbench MPs — local government officers , in keeping with the corporate nature of council decision-making , serve the council as a whole .
14 With a hardware.intensive approach this level of control sophistication is not usually available and the control circuit generates an approximation to the optimal operating condition , e.g. the acceleration/deceleration velocity profiles are approximated by linear ramp functions .
15 Single rooms are not usually available , but exceptions can be found in ryokan like the Yoshi-Ima .
16 They are clearly a very cost–effective form of risk assessment ; the situation will have been examined at a level of detail and expertise not usually available to individual companies .
17 Volenti non fit injuria is not usually available as a defence in the industrial safety cases .
18 It is therefore not usually appropriate for the original SPR to be circulated widely before considerable interpretation of it has been made .
19 It is therefore not usually appropriate for the original SPR to be circulated widely before considerable interpretation of it has been made .
20 They are not usually pathogenic but can become so under certain circumstances , for example when the body 's immune system is not functioning adequately , or when they are transferred to another part of the body , usually by the hands .
21 It is not usually necessary to attempt to reproduce the conditions of a particular market .
22 This can be used when riding a young horse but if the horse is correctly taught from his early breaking and training is not usually necessary .
23 If you want decorative timber panels on the ceiling , you may need to use a fire retarding paint or varnish on the surface , although this is not usually necessary in most homes .
24 The latter told her that a transfusion was not usually necessary and , in response to her inquiry said , that other , less effective , procedures were available .
25 Most lay clients assume that you will get a report from their GP , although this is not usually necessary or desirable .
26 The villages which can claim a degree of undisturbed continuity beyond this are not usually agricultural villages at all , but medieval textile ‘ towns ’ which have reverted to an agricultural status following the transfer of textile production to the industrial North during the nineteenth century .
27 Mrs Brooks was not usually curious about her guests .
28 Should the collar of the soil pipe ( if it has one ) break , this is not usually detrimental with today 's couplings , as long as the inside of the pipe is not cracked .
29 the elaboration of the substance of the appeal which is not usually apparent from the notice of appeal ;
30 ‘ Well , they 're not usually powerful enough to change things by themselves , see .
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