Example sentences of "be usually [vb pp] by [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Fatalities are usually caused by smoke inhalation , ’ said Mr Burnett . |
| 2 | High railings guarded the small courtyard gardens , the gates of which were usually protected by push-button security-code entry locks . |
| 3 | Fluid loss is usually accompanied by electrolyte loss . |
| 4 | Respiratory function is usually decreased by tissue oedema , and some patients may therefore need oxygen therapy . |
| 5 | Piper cenocladum ( Piperaceae ) in the understorey of Costa Rican forests has a petiolar chamber formed by the adpressed margins of a flattened petiole and this is usually occupied by Pheidole bicornis ants . |
| 6 | However , even if it is a matter of putting different variables in boxes on a sheet of paper and following through likely relationships qualitatively — a far cry from what is usually meant by systems analysis — it is a further intellectual advance on the black box approach to ‘ social factors ’ . |
| 7 | On these travels Tozer was usually accompanied by T. M. Crowder , bursar of Corpus Christi College , whose sixteen volumes of closely written journals , recording these and many other travels , are preserved in the college library . |