Example sentences of "[art] usual [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The textbook picture of the lower part of the Lower jurassic in England , looked at in the usual two-dimensional textbook way , along the outcrop , is of thinning over three axes with thicker basins of sedimentation in between ( figure 3.2a ) . |
| 2 | At the surface of the Earth , which is assumed to be a sphere of radius R and uniform density p , the relative acceleration of two objects towards the Earth as a result of such a fifth force would be if is the usual gravitational acceleration and Δ ( B ) is the difference between the values of B for the two bodies . |
| 3 | The usual modern method is to use the vertical length of the head as a unit of measurement . |
| 4 | The usual modern method is to use the vertical length of the head as a unit of measurement . |
| 5 | It should be said at the outset that this is not the usual legal meaning of the word . |
| 6 | No , not the usual boring bomb scare , but a cultural occasion of enormous significance . |
| 7 | When Cristofori built his pianos of the 1720s , the harpsichord and the clavichord were the usual stringed keyboard instruments . |
| 8 | Coming from the RAF Special Police it was a typical mode of address and the man who barked it out wore the usual truculent expression . |
| 9 | Between April 27 and May 19 , they can travel for half fare , instead of the usual one-third discount . |
| 10 | Searches by telephone do not carry any priority and in practice , therefore , they should be followed by the usual postal application in order to preserve the priority period whilst undertaking subsequent formalities . |
| 11 | It is becoming a tradition in our family ( extended by friends ) to do a fairly long walk between Christmas and the New Year , to walk off some of the effects of the turkey and tone up the system for the usual see-the-New- Year-in celebrations . |
| 12 | He never saw the rope that would hang him for the noose was concealed in the hem of the white hood that the hangman drew over his head with the usual gentle suggestion that AIbert Pierrepoint reserved for these occasions . |
| 13 | In place of the usual 18th-century formality it has a sense of verité that a later age can find reassuringly informative . |
| 14 | His mother 's vegetarianism had been carefully respected at lunch , with the usual faint suggestion that it was aberrant and therefore embarrassing , although Sara did try to conceal her opinion . |
| 15 | Paul Warren put on the usual impressive display in the Grumman Tigercat , Norman Lees flew David Gilmour 's Mustang N51RR and Peter Henley put Mosquito T.III RR299/G-ASKH through its paces in a smooth , co-ordinated display showing the lines of this classic British World War Two aircraft . |
| 16 | With the usual kindly swat , and again directing his intellectual energy towards moral concerns , Johnson replies , ‘ No sir , he can not have pleasure in music , at least no power of producing music ; for he who can produce music may let it alone ; he who can play upon a fiddle may break it : such a man is not a machine . ’ |
| 17 | There was , as in England , the usual wide variety of foodstuffs and produce . |
| 18 | Then there was the usual diplomatic muddle . |
| 19 | And they got the usual terse rejection-slip to that effect . |
| 20 | More specifically , the model makes the usual associative assumption that excitatory links will be established between representations ( of elements ) that are activated concurrently . |
| 21 | He had reached Blakemere , which was only two miles further on , when he pondered if he should take another direction and make his way to the river , but the thought that even this far out there 'd be a number of people on the banks today , mostly youngsters , he guessed , swimming or playing the usual dangerous game of swinging out over the river on a rope attached to a tree branch , deterred him . |
| 22 | Otherwise , it will be down to the usual international brinkmanship in Rio itself , and that 's no way to run a planet . |
| 23 | The usual slow-moving line of visitors filed past the black buried wall . |
| 24 | Although at the time of writing the weather has reverted to the usual Icelandic summer , there was considerable new route activity in April and May . |
| 25 | It was a dead time of day in Loxford , with only a handful of people out in their gardens — she would have to have the usual shouted conversation with Mr Biddle among his brassica stumps , and a whispered one with Mrs Eddoes , who treated life as a giant conspiracy — and nobody in the shop or on the green . |
| 26 | Three tracks of the usual dreamy guitar pop from Norfolk 's finest , with a lazy edge and maybe a couple of quid more spent on the studio than last time . |
| 27 | Occasionally she made rolled-up pancakes , and stuffed omelettes , and steak pies with lovely gravy:I have in my mind 's eye a picture of her , sitting in a corner with some child on her lap , and the usual dreamy expression on her face . |
| 28 | This year 's battle of the budget is generating more anguish than any for years , John Major 's cabinet now realize what a parliamentary mess December might turn into with week-long debates on both the Queen 's speech and the budget to pack in , and worse to come in the spring , a budget combining taxes with public spending seemed a good idea at the time Norman Lamont announced it , but with November the thirtieth just a month away the political down-side is appearing , of course with a fifty billion pound deficit in the Government 's accounts this years spending round would have been hard pounding anyhow , but the usual noisy haggle over the available cash among departments is now amplified by posses of Tory backbenchers trying to head off this or that tax increase , and there 's an incentive to keep that up right through the finance bill after Christmas , since most new taxes would not come in until April . |
| 29 | There was the usual extra food for Christmas and we allowed ourselves three slices of bread each for breakfast instead of two . |
| 30 | Felt broke up in 1989 , not because of the usual tired catalogue of ‘ musical differences ’ or drug problems , but because it was written in the stars that they would break up . |