Example sentences of "were usually [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were usually called early in the morning to ensure that the other passengers were not disturbed . |
| 2 | Additionally , the horses were usually fed their dinner of oats in a bucket placed inside a motorcar tire ( so that they were less likely to spill it ) . |
| 3 | One thing is certain , that those of them — priests , prophets or saints — who did so respond , were usually rejected . |
| 4 | They were usually limited to a tacking angle of 50 degrees . |
| 5 | Nonetheless , a clear regional pattern divided eastern England , where copyhold by inheritance prevailed , from the west , where copyholds were usually granted for three lives , occasionally fewer ; grants for term of years were rare . |
| 6 | Mothers were expected to bring needlework and the meetings were usually noted for their deeply religious tone . |
| 7 | Sauce-boats with such marine motifs were usually intended to serve fish sauces . |
| 8 | There would still be a bit of clublife here and there through the alleyways , and the all-night gambling schools in Chinatown , though those were usually reserved for the Oriental abacus-for-brains fanatic . |
| 9 | There is more than a grain of truth in the observation by A. P. Herbert that royal commissions were usually appointed ‘ not so much for digging up the truth , as for digging it in . ’ |
| 10 | Graduates were usually destined for mageship at least , but Rincewind — after an unfortunate event — had left knowing only one spell and made a living of sorts around the town by capitalising on an innate gift for languages . |
| 11 | Staphylococcus aureus and alpha haemolytic streptococci were the most commonly identified organisms and were usually isolated from the biopsy channel of the endoscope and it seems likely that needle tip contamination is the chief culprit . |
| 12 | In the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries large estates were usually run from the main residence of the landowner — particularly the large country house or stately home ( Fig. 23 ) . |
| 13 | The bronzes that the Chinese so eagerly collected came from burials and were usually covered in a fine green patina . |
| 14 | They were usually covered in local cotton prints or in printed fabrics from Alsace or Neufchâtel , but grander versions had silk cushions in brightly coloured and lavish damasks and brocades from the silk works in Lyon . |
| 15 | On the death of a bishop , while his spiritual jurisdiction and income were administered by the dean , or prior , and chapter of the cathedral church , the temporalities of the see — as with any tenant-in-chief during a minority-reverted to the crown for the duration of the vacancy ; they were usually farmed or leased out to the profit of the crown and of the farmers who were naturally inclined to extract as much as they could from the windfall . |
| 16 | Watt 's were usually coloured , the colours at this period sometimes indicating materials , sometimes function , and sometimes being just decorative . |
| 17 | These were usually declined ( Jones et al . |
| 18 | It was under the firewood that arms were usually hidden . |
| 19 | During the 1930s , then , in the years when his popularity was soaring to dizzy heights , Hitler 's public pronouncements on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ were less numerous than might be imagined , and , while certainly hate-filled , were usually couched in abstract generalities in association with western plutocracy or Bolshevism . |
| 20 | The offer of Gisèle as bride was a spectacular gesture : legitimate daughters of Carolingians were usually placed in convents . |
| 21 | European stations showed signs of developing such communities in the nineteenth century , but they were usually swept away . |
| 22 | Of course , from a strictly scientific viewpoint these individual biographical studies can be criticised on the grounds that they are biased towards rather special cases ; added to which , as Becker points out , such accounts were usually written by clinicians whose professional interest in the abnormal inevitably caused them to focus on signs of pathology . |
| 23 | While not every article would interest every reader , or be comprehensible to him or her , they were usually written in an expansive style so as to be accessible . |
| 24 | What exercises were included were usually written , and were often the type requiring translation of sentences from one language to the other . |
| 25 | In addition , suicide attempts were usually regarded as implying a wish to die and the existence of mental illness , while less acceptable reasons , such as manipulation of others , were infrequently considered . |
| 26 | These depositors were less likely to make sudden substantial withdrawals , which allowed for lower cash reserves : profit without risk , especially since lendings were usually secured on land mortgage . |
| 27 | He was hungry and conscious of the delicious greasy bundle in his bag , but he believed fish and chips were usually heated up in the oven anyway , so they would n't spoil . |
| 28 | Girls were alleged to have tendencies towards ‘ flirtation ’ , and were usually seen as a threat to the healthy development of the boy . |
| 29 | London , as it watched the decline of New York and Paris as theatrical capitals , maintained over fifty theatres , subsidised and commercial — of which most , on any week-day evening , were usually given over to legitimate theatre . |
| 30 | Though his first wife remains a shadowy and rather pathetic figure about whom one longs to know more , there is plenty here on the crowded , ramshackle household and its often hand-to-mouth existence constructed entirely around the demands of the workaholic , temperamental sculptor — the hoarded treasures , the art and music which pervaded the house , the much loved but somewhat casually raised children , the constantly changing and eccentric cast of live-in models , nannies , general factotums , portrait sitters , studio visitors , plaster moulders , musicians , friends and members of the press who were usually given short shrift . |