Example sentences of "[noun prp] [is] usually " in BNC.
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| 1 | TNF is usually satisfactory in practice . |
| 2 | TNF is usually satisfactory , however , and readers may avoid further extensions if they wish , that is , skip the next section . |
| 3 | ‘ Saturday is usually hectic in the shop and I 'm ready for bed and a book by ten o'clock but tonight I felt the need of a nightcap . |
| 4 | Unless there is a very high proportion of females of child-bearing age , the CBR is usually less than 50 . |
| 5 | Alan is usually a very even-tempered individual who has endless energy . |
| 6 | His wife Maryon , co-author of the book , said : ‘ Alan is usually so energetic and light-hearted . |
| 7 | IBM is usually pretty forthcoming about the markets that it foresees for its products , but in this case limits itself to saying that it will appeal to professionals who would prefer ‘ easy-to-remember voice commands ’ to complicated keystrokes or mouse movements . |
| 8 | Gamma Cassiopeiæ in the W-shaped northern constellation of Cassiopeia is usually about magnitude 2.2 , but in 1936 it flared up to 1.6 before fading back to below its normal brightness and then making a slow recovery . |
| 9 | The later Wordsworth is usually presented as a very unattractive figure ; the case against his poetry will be examined separately , but what annoys people even more than his apparent repudiation of the principles underlying Lyrical Ballads is his political attitude . |
| 10 | The Gothic side of Wordsworth is usually played down , and he is thought of as reacting against the overstimulation of the imagination which medieval fantasy so frequently provided . |
| 11 | February 's usually the worst . |
| 12 | By then Harald is usually assumed to have been dead . |
| 13 | For example , Matthew is usually thought to be William Taylor ( see p. 13 ) , but Taylor died at thirty-two . |
| 14 | Milan is usually still , the wind rarely sweeping full tilt across the Plain . |
| 15 | Standing about 27 inches at the shoulder , the Dobermann is usually black and tan in colour , but can be bred in any of four other colours . |
| 16 | Glastonbury is usually asleep — in fact , apart from mealtimes , he seems to be rarely awake . |
| 17 | STAMFORD is usually referred to as having fourteen churches in the medieval period , but at one time there was a fifteenth , dedicated to St. Thomas . |
| 18 | The system of higher education in the UK is usually described in institutional rather than curricular terms , and even in a book on the curriculum something must be said about the pattern of institutions since this affects what is taught . |
| 19 | Sunday is usually a day of urgency — talks , Mass , lunch , conclusion , benediction and sad farewells follow in quick succession , and yet people feel uplifted and refreshed . |
| 20 | Lakshmi is usually depicted as the consort of the god Vishnu . |
| 21 | Whereas Marx is usually thought to have envisaged a classless society in which people will no longer be deluded by false consciousness , Althusser has posited a determinism so strong as to be inescapable . |
| 22 | The specific volume changes linearly with temperature up to a transition region where a change of slope occurs , after which the curve continues linearly but at a steeper gradient ; Tg is usually defined s the point at which the tangents to the two curves intersect . |
| 23 | An act of God is usually held to have been the spark which ignited Ceauşescu 's ambitions as a town-planner and architect of communism and spurred him to act on them . |
| 24 | Bladud is usually associated with the building of Bath and its spa baths dedicated to Minerva , but more importantly |
| 25 | Severe liver damage caused by NSAIDs is usually attributed to ‘ hypersensitivity ’ or ‘ idiosyncreasy ’ . |
| 26 | Freya is usually depicted wearing a magic necklace forged in the sun called Brisingamen , and a cloak made of falcon 's wings . |
| 27 | But Japan is usually quick to rationalise — that is , eliminate — her declining industries . |
| 28 | Occasionally a single cause may be identified , but SBS is usually ‘ multifactorial ’ , with several factors being involved . |
| 29 | Merely the concept of a non-WYSIWYG desktop publishing program on the Macintosh is usually enough to reduce most people to quizzical silence but such a product does , indeed , exist . |
| 30 | ‘ Berlioz is usually known for his noisier moments , but half the score of Béatrice is composed of quiet , gentle music of tremendous wit and subtlety . |