Example sentences of "since it [is] usually " in BNC.

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1 Culyer and Brazier ( 1988 ) described the Enthoven model but argued that ‘ since it is usually supposed that the competition for contracts would not be restricted to NHS institutions we prefer the term ‘ provider markets ’ to the more usual ‘ internal markets ’ ’ .
2 In the field of medicine , disorders are recognised according to their pattern of symptoms , since it is usually the case that similar symptom patterns are indicative of illnesses that have similar underlying causes .
3 Third , the views of the innate aggressionists and their followers reflect — and implicitly reinforce — sexism , since it is usually man who is presented in the Hobbesian mould , with a sleight-of-hand extension of man into Man .
4 Indeed , in this respect status is a less reliable control than affection , since it is usually available in more varied forms .
5 They were undoubtedly used by the employers , and the strike was seized as a chance to bring them in — but it should be firmly stated here , since it is usually glossed over , that the damage to the strikers " cause was not for the first time , the result of actions by other men .
6 It is unlikely , though , that a bridge existed here in pre-Roman times , since it is usually argued that the first Roman crossing at the famous battle of the Medway took place further upstream towards Maidstone .
7 And since it 's usually the case with an experiment that you do n't know what the exact outcome is going to be … well , a lot of the top men moved out to where conditions were easier .
8 ‘ No , perhaps not , since it 's usually a response to things lost , or ended , and you still have Jones , ’ Luke conceded cynically .
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