Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the usual " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Major 's inquiry should be held in public , not behind closed doors or with the usual excuse that publication would ‘ not be in the public interest ’ . |
| 2 | The pupil can make a measurement within the usual range ( 4b ) or outside the usual range ( 4c ) of the instrument to an appropriate level of accuracy . |
| 3 | This may have been due to a reluctance to suck more money out of a generous population , or to the usual delays in carrying out orders from Moscow . |
| 4 | We were pleased to find the palace deserted ( or so we thought ) except for the usual steward and bailiffs who stayed throughout the year to clean the rooms , wash the hangings and sweep out the dirt once the court moved on . |
| 5 | To a French general , conscious that in the usual manner of things there must soon be a hunt after scapegoats for the Verdun disaster , Joffre 's calmly non-committal response of ‘ It 's up to you ’ can hardly have been comforting . |
| 6 | During their training , emphasis is on the practice of the theory , much more so than in the usual training of teachers . |
| 7 | It is far easier in physical terms to read texts if they are positioned as below ( A ) rather than in the usual position ( B ) . |
| 8 | And with the usual loud-mouthed flourish he marched off to the lavatory taking my book with him . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , they were not unaffected by the general prosperity of the district : more than one in three owned goods valued at 40s. or more , suggesting ( over and above the usual affluence ) a wider , more varied range of jobs and responsibilities created by a more developed economy . |
| 10 | It would nt hurt to say ‘ Yes I m sory to leave Leeds and the supporters behind … but the club needed the money and if I had to join another club it would be Blackburn ( and onto the usual bullshit ) ’ Fuck me even Cantona said something nice about us . |
| 11 | Forms may be obtained from the court and from the usual legal stationers . |
| 12 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 13 | ‘ Anthony got to hear the story and in the usual way of gossip heard a greatly exaggerated version and was seriously upset . |
| 14 | And among the usual ‘ Man U haters ’ songs was a brief but heartfelt tribute to Sydney . |
| 15 | Tickets go on sale at Virgin Records in Belfast on Saturday and at the usual Aiken Promotions agencies in the province . |
| 16 | He was standing in his pyjamas in his bedroom , which was empty but for the usual furniture . |
| 17 | Not a tall man , but of the usual dimensions ; coldly beautiful , true , with self-delighted eyes ; graceful , chasteningly graceful in his athletic authority ; and a doctor . |
| 18 | But despite the usual rows of Question Time , no-one disagreed with what John Major had to say on this occasion . |
| 19 | The classes started at eight o'clock and were supposed to end at ten , but with the usual chatting afterwards it was almost eleven o'clock before I reached home . |
| 20 | Grazing species leave characteristic winding trails , and these have been tentatively identified as fossils , but with the usual caution that the trail makers themselves are never apparently preserved at the end of their tracks . |
| 21 | Comes with several thousand words , but with the usual Lander edit facility this is a very flexible educational tool that has a place both in the home and in schools . |
| 22 | The third person in the car was another Egyptian , definitely about thirty , slim and dressed , like the Prince , in a smart , European-style suit but with the usual pot-like tarboosh of the Egyptian professional on his head . |
| 23 | For moisture , mulches are always beneficial , but besides the usual compost or bark ships , gravel is effective and provides better protection against water-logging in wet winters . |
| 24 | The townspeople are hoping the fair will quietly fade away and die because of the usual clashes between the locals and the travellers . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We have no intention of putting the success of that operation at risk because of the usual bungling by the authorities . ’ |
| 27 | He felt disappointed because writing " Voice of Vangmoor " was the only money-making activity he did that he enjoyed , and this would have been more enjoyable than usual , a piece of real journalism as against the usual pedestrian stuff about the view from the top of Big Allen or hearing the first cuckoo . |
| 28 | Contact us on CompuServe ID 70007,5557 as well as via the usual pigeon post . |
| 29 | Inflation and the budgetary deficit have been reduced , though at the usual price of increased unemployment and the decline of local enterprises . |