Example sentences of "[conj] usually [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Left ) Although usually called a panther , this large cat is really a leopard in black or ‘ melanistic ’ phase . |
| 2 | In this respect , although usually referred to as empirical , it can be considered to be scientific . |
| 3 | They must spring up the trees as the monkeys are driven into them and they are the ones that usually make the kill . |
| 4 | He noticed how bare the room was of the bits and pieces that usually make two lives one life ; but Carla had tried to compensate for that with a beachcomber 's finds : little groups of pebbles and shells on the windowsills , a fan of dried marram in a vase , a gnarled limb of driftwood that she had smoothed and varnished . |
| 5 | In all such cases the prevalence of such actions and the possibilities for their control are better accounted for by addressing the question of what it is that usually inhibits the actions , rather than by accounting for how the motivations arise . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the T-shirt stalls that usually clutter the Venice Beach Boardwalk disappeared and were replaced by quaint bookstores and outdoor caféd from the Sixties , so convincingly real that residents of the area walked into them , only to be thrown out by laughing security guards . |
| 7 | On his face , with its childlike planes and arrogant nostrils and affectingly large eyes , was a distinct absence of the play of simple expressions that usually took place there . |
| 8 | And at that moment , the two people that usually took over from us came round the corner , poked their heads round and said ‘ Oh hello , fancy seeing you here , we just thought we 'd pop round to say goodbye . ’ |
| 9 | Washing up was just one of the many benefits that usually came his way on party nights . |
| 10 | He had slept badly and woken badly and was fighting against the sort of headache that usually came on after a big case was finished . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , in the contemporary English village it is this feeling of having been ‘ taken over ’ by outsiders that usually prevails among the agricultural population and with it not only a sense of ‘ loss of community ’ , but an inevitable animus against the invasion of ‘ furriners ’ . |
| 12 | Class Administration — activities that usually take place at the start of a lesson — settling pupils , giving general instructions , giving out material . |
| 13 | Only in Orkney did this response receive a low rating which could be attributed to most of the people interviewed having been brought up on a farm and having the confidence that usually goes hand in hand with experience . |
| 14 | Yet one of the striking characteristics of Shakespeare 's Sonnets is that they exist on an almost universal level ; they are generalized ( with none of the depersonalization that usually goes with generalization ) ; they are widely , perhaps indefinitely applicable . |
| 15 | Cos you 're only two that usually goes up with me . |
| 16 | This was the sort of reaction that usually followed a burst of temper bordering on rage . |
| 17 | He was behind most of the attacks that usually floundered at the hands , feet or body of Lincoln 's inspired keeper Ian Bowling — who played for most of the game with a suspected smashed ankle . |
| 18 | The mobility of the TNCs , the job losses that usually follow , and the identification of ‘ cheap imports ’ with goods previously produced at home , increase protectionist pressures among labour and small domestic capitalists alike . |
| 19 | We skirted the now-notorious refreshment hut , which was marked off with those fluorescent orange ribbons that usually signal a particularly nasty accident , and which was now guarded by two policemen . |
| 20 | Indeed , Cohn resists all the vain temptations that usually beset writers travelling the supposed ‘ lower depths ’ . |
| 21 | The strength of the economy has blunted the one issue that usually pushes voters to go to the polls . |
| 22 | The strange , wild feeling that usually drove her down to the sea was beginning to thump in her bosom . |
| 23 | This was just the sort of thing — a secret service playing God — that usually had George registering y on the Richter Scale . |
| 24 | This is not only quicker than casting stitches off in small groups but it also gives a neat edge without the stepped edge that usually occurs . |
| 25 | to cast off in small groups but it also gives a neat edge without the stepped edge that usually occurs . |
| 26 | The extraordinary generation of NO induced by endotoxin could explain the absence of motor activity that usually occurs in association with gall bladder infection . |
| 27 | The long tin bath that usually hung by one of its handles on the wall of the pantry had been placed on the level paving stones at the bottom end of the back yard . |
| 28 | The ratchet is invariably geared to the rate of return which the investors expect to receive on their equity and that usually depends on the expected market capitalisation of the company . |
| 29 | We passed a few minutes in the exchanges that usually pass for conversation between people who know each other slightly and have no real business connection . |
| 30 | Before going further let us dispose of one standard excuse that usually crops up when people talk about time pressures . |