Example sentences of "normally a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it normally a solid or a liquid or what ? |
| 2 | Normally a company buying insurance against political upheavals , nationalisation or blocks on the repatriation of dividends , is required by its insurer to keep this cover a dark secret from the government of the country in question . |
| 3 | Normally a degree at a university ( apart from the Open University ) requires three or four years ' full-time study , but it may be taken as a four-year sandwich course , or in five to six years ' part-time study in other institutions . |
| 4 | Joe Jordan , a spokesman for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists , says women should not allow doctors to carry out such examinations unless there is someone else in the room or close by — normally a nurse , relative or friend . |
| 5 | Normally a knight expected to serve for about forty days a year at his own expense ; the terms of his service might also be restricted — when and where he served , and for how long he would stay after the forty days if the king paid him . |
| 6 | A typical exhibit , Thomas Kapielsky 's witty ‘ Käseplatte ’ is an object the size and shape of a record ( platte ) which also looks like a section of a round cheese ( Käse ) ; but the thing visualises at the same time an untranslatable German pun ( while ‘ Käseplatte ’ is normally a selection of cheeses in a restaurant , ‘ Käse ’ is also colloquial for crap which can of course refer to music as well as to art … ) . |
| 7 | Put simply this means that it must have some means of accepting information from the user , normally a keyboard , and giving results back , traditionally a screen of some kind . |
| 8 | The Education Reform Act required college governing bodies to be dominated by employer interests , and it is normally a requirement that at least 50% of the attendance at any governing body meeting should be from the employer sector . |
| 9 | In 1991 , the middle Sunday , normally a day of rest , became famous for creating the most unique atmosphere of the Championships . |
| 10 | Finally , the leaden seal , the bulla , was attached to the document by the bullator ( normally a lay-brother from the abbey of Fossanova ) . |
| 11 | Repetitive enough to appeal to Matthew , 4 , who asked for it at bedtime four nights running , and with sophisticated touches appreciated by William , 6 , normally a boy of the He Man persuasion . |
| 12 | Questionnaires depend on the use of some verbal stimuli — normally a question , but sometimes a statement expressing an attitude or an opinion — designed to elicit a verbal response which is recorded and subsequently analysed along with other responses from other interviewees . |
| 13 | The terrorist is normally a person who , as such , risks death either by his own weapons or in the commission of his act , and is at least as likely to court what he might regard as a martyr 's or patriot 's death as to be deterred by it . |
| 14 | There is a rule that normally a person is bound by his signature , Saunders v. Anglia Building Society ( 1970 H.L. ) . |
| 15 | Normally a compromise is reached whereby the felling is deferred or phased . |
| 16 | The Soviet Union is not normally a country to which most people would look to learn lessons about democracy — except negative ones . |
| 17 | The quality of the user interface , such as whether it is windows based , is normally a feature of the related text information management package . |
| 18 | There is normally a strip on the front cover , about the comic 's namesake , Bunty , and the pranks and scrapes she gets into . |
| 19 | These binocular cells can be made to fire by impulses arriving by way of fibres from either eye but there is normally a bias in favour of one eye or the other , the so-called ocular dominance of the cell . |
| 20 | The most desirable form of employment for many Scots in the eighteenth century was that provided by the East India Company , and a politician with access to this commodity was normally a man of strong interest in his region . |
| 21 | One explanation for the link with food intolerance runs as follows : although Candida is normally a yeast ( individual egg-shaped cells ) , it can convert to a hyphal form ( tiny threads , as described above ) in certain circumstances . |
| 22 | The proximate cause of the symptoms of diabetes is normally a lack of insulin , a hormone produced in the pancreas to control the body 's sugar levels . |
| 23 | To designate the support of the notion " beautiful " one must make the adjective incident to another word , normally a substantive , as in a beautiful painting , because the notion of " beautiful " itself can be said of anything that strikes the speaker as having this quality : a beautiful sunset , a beautiful house , a beautiful stallion , a beautiful thought , etc . |
| 24 | Corruption was not normally a problem among judges and magistrates , but in the early and mid-nineteenth century many of these officials were incompetent or excessively eccentric . |
| 25 | No I 've just had it 's not normally a problem with us , but the manufacturer they 're using , alright , is shit , and they 'll tend to end up |
| 26 | My hair is thick and glossy whereas it 's normally a bit straggly . |
| 27 | But hair 's normally a bit finer on your thighs , is n't it ? |
| 28 | In other words , trustees , normally a trust corporation , are interposed between the company and the debentureholders . |
| 29 | The ways in which individual councils arrange matters vary greatly , but normally a council has an agreement with a local firm of funeral directors for a funeral service . |
| 30 | I 'm not normally a fan of painted-over necks , but would make an exception in this case . |