Example sentences of "[subord] [is] usually " in BNC.

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1 Though Agatha Christie was properly reticent about the breadth of her reading , it is clear to the informed student of her works that they reflect a much broader and deeper literary frame of reference than is usually admitted to this particular author .
2 This article analyses the constitutional aspects behind the formation of the first and second National Governments , examining in particular the role of the king in the formation of the two governments — a role which , as will be seen , was rather more important than is usually thought .
3 The aims of the project , which are discussed in more detail in Chapter Two , were to provide flexible ‘ packages ’ of supplementary home support to dementia sufferers , in addition to the statutory health and social services and the non-statutory services normally available , and to test whether , given this service , it is possible cost-effectively to sustain such people at home for longer than is usually possible with support only from existing forms of health and social service ; to explore the circumstances in which the dementia sufferers could cost-effectively be sustained at home , and to examine the circumstances in which it was not possible to sustain them ; that is , to identify the limits to care .
4 There is overwhelming evidence from many research studies to show that visual behaviours play a larger part in communications between people than is usually supposed .
5 Yet any study of the book and Bukharin 's subsequent writings indicate more continuity than is usually allowed for by those commentators who have only a cursory knowledge of his works .
6 It was significant that Mr Lamont had looked further ahead than is usually the case on Budget day , said Professor Sherer .
7 It 's made the committee larger than is usually thought effective has n't it ?
8 Our modern life is based to a larger extent than is usually realised upon faith in the honesty of the other .
9 The new Edwardians — who , as I will show , had much more in common with the original Edwardian youth than is usually supposed — swiftly gained a terrible reputation for gang fights , vandalism , street robberies , rock-and-roll cinema riots , and attacks on cafe owners and late-night bus crews .
10 What became the Criminal Justice Act of 1961 was a relatively short statute of forty-five sections and six schedules , with more of a coherent theme than is usually found in comparable legislation .
11 It is a concession of importance , since it indicates a greater convergence between the male and female work pattern than is usually suggested .
12 Such cases need deeper therapy than is usually within the grasp of the social worker and the safety of the child may demand its immediate separation from the parent .
13 The opportunities for close , long-term relationships are greater than is usually the case in a large , metropolitan , residential area .
14 The surprising conclusion they suggest is that the Council was more of a brake on the sovereignty of the Assembly than is usually supposed .
15 They are quite expensive and contain substantially more than is usually needed .
16 The relatively detailed information in the annals and in the correspondence of Alcuin for this phase of the reign of Eardwulf enables us to perceive more clearly than is usually the case the way in which an attempt to challenge a Northumbrian king could embrace both internal dissent and external interference .
17 4 More hanging space than is usually provided .
18 The support of the staff and their willingness to adjust their provision and their reaction , clearly demonstrates that given the proper approach teachers are in both principle and practice more willing to review their methods and sustain alternatives than is usually acknowledged .
19 These scholars , with their narrow reliance on sometimes incomplete statistics and a hypothetical input for ‘ social saving ’ , argue that the railways were much less important than is usually assumed , because if they had not existed , something else would have emerged to take their place .
20 This programme will seek to develop a framework for economic modelling within which links between the decisions of individual agents ( firms , households , unions ) and the behaviour of the economy at an aggregate level are more clearly established than is usually the case .
21 He had a hearty manner and his heavy spectacles suggested an even greater myopia than is usually the case with conference chairpersons .
22 This type of holiday attracts a much younger and more adventurous type of person than is usually associated with the cruising industry .
23 The beliefs and ideas that organisations hold about who they are and what they are trying to do and what their environment is like have a much greater tendency to realise themselves than is usually believed .
24 The government of George I and the Whigs never lost its credibility , but retained the support of a substantial proportion of the traditional ruling class and probably a higher proportion of the mass of the population than is usually realised .
25 Thus the social and political implications of design , it is suggested , are wider than is usually supposed .
26 You 'll be mentally flexible today , rather more than is usually the case .
27 Those wanting to avoid rain should avoid winter trips , in December in particular , but , as is usually the case , such generalizations will almost certainly not apply to your trip !
28 The most virulent of all jellyfish is not , as is usually claimed , the large Portuguese man-o'-war , but the sea wasp or box jelly commonly found off the shores of Australia .
29 Where , as is usually the case , an instrument is laid subject to negative resolution , the position is that it will obtain or , more commonly , retain the force of law unless , within the stipulated time , the House rejects it .
30 The digi-terror which still afflicts we analogue-minded guitarists is , in reality , founded on common sense , not , as is usually stated , on our well-documented Luddite tendencies .
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