Example sentences of "[noun pl] usually [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work organizations usually represent order and stability as opposed to instability and disorder . |
| 2 | Cases involving taxi drivers usually took place at night in remote areas ; it was an easy form of attack . |
| 3 | Goyigama Buddhists normally organized thefts in both areas , but Muslim or Sinhalese Roman Catholic traders usually took control of the animals for the last stages before the slaughterhouse . |
| 4 | Aside from incorporating charter party terms by reference , charter party bills usually disclaim liability for the specific weight , contents , quantity , and value of the goods . |
| 5 | Supermarkets usually have selling space the size of very large … |
| 6 | Economic projects tend to support companies and infrastructural provision ; social and community projects usually involve funding for community and leisure centres or educational and advice projects ; housing schemes are directed towards improvement and the needs of special groups ; and environmental expenditure is allocated to improving older buildings and vacant sites . |
| 7 | ( Notice that " Modern Language " in titles usually means literature as well as language , and looking in bibliographies for ideas about what to read is called a LITERATURE SEARCH — " literature " in this sense means " the collection of what has been written " . ) |
| 8 | Taxes usually alter equilibrium prices and quantities and these induced effects must also be taken into account . |
| 9 | However conservation policies also affect the careers of bureaucrats and elements of sub-government in a negative sense , putting them in difficult positions since these programmes usually include policy measures which are directly injurious to the interests of the state elite in their private economic capacities . |
| 10 | Local authorities usually produce design guides for roads within their administrative areas , laying down minimum standards of width , widths of footpaths and radius of bends , depending on the design , speed and type of road . |
| 11 | Pale forms usually lack breast band found in other skuas and have dark body . |
| 12 | Wright and West , in a study of all incidents recorded by the police as genuine rapes or attempted rapes in six English counties over a five-year period from 1972 to 1976 , found that of a total of 297 cases , fellatio was attempted or demanded in 30 incidents , cunnilingus in 13 , buggery in 12 and other sexual acts usually involving masturbation in 35 . |
| 13 | Smoking clinics usually provide health information , group discussion and mutual support rather than specific treatment . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , if British governments usually provide leadership that is more authentically collective than at present , the possibility of executive branch hegemony is always there . |
| 15 | Nostrils : Tension around the nostrils usually indicates fear . |
| 16 | Students not in residential places usually rent accommodation or take lodgings in the city . |
| 17 | Students not in residential places usually rent accommodation or take lodgings in the city . |
| 18 | For security and safety reasons stores should be kept exclusive and the provisions of hygiene regulations usually prohibit cleaning materials being stored with food . |
| 19 | The conflict which characterizes our everyday feelings usually causes part of them to be inhibited or suppressed ; in contrast poetry and the other arts ‘ spring from and perpetuate hours in the lives of exceptional people , when their control and command of experience is at its highest ’ ( Richards 1967 : 22 ) . |
| 20 | Referring principally to those techniques of soil conservation developed by research stations and government institutions , many studies of the economics of soil conservation which focus on the private economic incentives for soil conservation , show that , although total benefits from a soil conservation scheme such as terracing may be more than the total cost , individual farmers usually lose income from these practices ( Harshbarger & Swanson 1964 , Holtman & Connor 1974 ) . |
| 21 | Smoke and dye experiments usually show particle paths or streaklines ( Section 6.1 ) . |
| 22 | The apparatus required for these experiments usually includes salt windows , and is designed to fit the sample compartment of a commercial IR spectrometer . |
| 23 | Such distant resources usually comprised woodland , commons and wastes and sometimes meadowland . |
| 24 | Treatment centres usually have family programmes , some of which are residential . |
| 25 | ( Rabbits usually eat grass , as everyone knows . |
| 26 | But constraints usually involve power over only one or a narrow range of corporate activities , so that they amount to partial control rather than control over the entire spectrum of major decisions ’ . |
| 27 | These materials are sometimes used in combination — aluminium windows may be set up in timber sub-frame , for example , and upvc windows usually have steel reinforcement inside their box sections for extra strength . |
| 28 | These bleaching creams usually contain hydroquinone , a photographic chemical which peels off the natural top layer of the skin , exposing the body to harmful radiation . |
| 29 | Girls usually leave Arbour after twelve months , having taken their exams and any girls who , for instance , come in the third year at school are required to return to school afterwards . |
| 30 | Four females usually give birth and rear cubs together . |