Example sentences of "[subord] it is usually [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the most part MA atrophies and consequently the media in recent insects is generally MP , although it is usually designated by the symbol M. The Odonata and Plecoptera , however , seem to be unusual in retaining MA and not MP , while further research is needed into the constitution of the media in other Orthopteroid insects . |
| 2 | Any type of wood can be waxed , although it is usually applied to pine or oak . |
| 3 | This aspect of lost practical and discursive consciousness is well recognised in the literature on dementia , although it is usually described in the language of psychogeriatrics . |
| 4 | In her case , of course , it is the figure which provides the impetus , although it is usually evoked in absentia only by the clothes it supports ( both shows until 27 March ) . |
| 5 | Parsley needs far more root-room than it is usually given ; the main or tap root is rather like a small carrot , and this should be allowed for . |
| 6 | RE is on a much stronger wicket than it is usually given credit for , provided it is open in character . |
| 7 | We will therefore examine first a typical series of twelve notes : The series is not a theme but a sequence of notes , so it is usually written out as above in equal note values . |
| 8 | Welfare fraud is an ideologically emotional topic , because it is usually expressed in terms of aggregated amounts ( Uglow 1988b ) . |
| 9 | Hangman is well known as a spelling game , but it is less useful than it should be , because it is usually played as a pure guessing game . |
| 10 | The unpleasantness is stressed because it is usually preceded by an enjoyable activity — eating a meal . |
| 11 | I stress this folk opera strength in Grimes , because it is usually considered an example of the doom of the individual , faced by the oppression of society . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ ’ . |
| 15 | The mantle-crust boundary is marked by the Mohorovicic discontinuity ( or the Moho as it is usually abbreviated ) . |
| 16 | The British Mesozoic Committee ( who concerned themselves with such matters ) therefore found it impossible to accept the stratotype concept as it is usually proclaimed on the continent . |
| 17 | Georg Simmel 's analysis of a Zweierverbindung , a ‘ union of two ’ or ‘ dyad ’ as it is usually translated , defines it as the minimal social unit , which depends always on ‘ immediacy of interaction ’ , there being no super-individual unit to which either party can also belong ( as with larger group-structures ) . |
| 18 | In the past William IX has been portrayed as the genius who , single-handed , created a new art-form , the poetry of romantic and sexual love , amour courtois or ( as it is usually translated ) " courtly love " . |
| 19 | What about the sweatshops of Korea , or the rich Kuwaiti women who buy merely for their own pleasure and hide their couture gowns under their abayas because they are not allowed to display themselves … it 's a far cry from the fashion world as it is usually depicted , it could make fascinating copy . |
| 20 | In accounts that were given of first meetings we find that the situation is often important as it is usually mentioned . |