Example sentences of "[noun pl] usually [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , Lloyd 's Register surveyors invariably decline to be nominated as experts to determine technical disputes during construction , for this very reason ; and the parties usually refer disputes to arbitration rather than expert determination . |
| 2 | Stouts usually have gravities in the middle 1040s . |
| 3 | Stouts usually have gravities in the middle 1040s . |
| 4 | In order to weed out potential problems private schools usually give children some form of interview and pre-entry test before a place is offered . |
| 5 | Mass strandings usually involve whales which migrate over long distances . |
| 6 | In everyday conversation , speakers usually ask questions in order to extend their knowledge . |
| 7 | GPs and clinics usually refer women to the centre if there is a problem . |
| 8 | Theropods usually had teeth in the front jaws , and sometimes they extended far back into the mouth . |
| 9 | Such primitives usually include parallelepipeds , cylinders , cones , pyramids , spheres , fillets and torri . |
| 10 | Several visits in the area were for canoeing or sailing , but with the participants usually demanding hills as well . |
| 11 | In practice , managers usually quote prices somewhere in that band , with a dealing spread of about 6 or 7 per cent . |
| 12 | Likewise , because committees usually contain members of different parties with different degrees of seniority and influence , contact is also facilitated between councillors of different political standing and party affiliation . |
| 13 | Bombers usually carry bombs . |
| 14 | Tables published by government agencies usually carry footnotes indicating such changes . |
| 15 | At a formal level the council and its committees meet , with officers in attendance , to consider reports prepared by officers usually incorporating recommendations for action , but precise working relationships vary enormously . |
| 16 | As it is , only a third of the pups will survive to become one year olds and females are only mature sexually after five years with the males usually holding territories after ten years . |
| 17 | Males usually dominate females , but adult males are absent from the herd for most of the year . |
| 18 | Given the desperate urgency of the situation , and the fact that males usually outnumber females , it is not surprising that competition between males for females is intense . |
| 19 | Cooler fresh water changes usually trigger pairs into a spawning sequence ( which can last a whole day ) with their signals to the natural breeding clock . |
| 20 | Vending machines usually sell items such as hot or cold drinks chocolate and cigarettes . |
| 21 | But practitioners usually encounter elders at just those times when crisis has broken down the security of routine . |
| 22 | Cats usually spray areas they 've sprayed before , so clean up using biological washing powder followed by alcohol . |
| 23 | Leisure journeys usually follow routes that would be painful , or impossible , by rail . |
| 24 | The adventures usually contain puzzles that have to be solved , cryptic advice , plays on words , red herrings , and some really useful information that is only revealed when you 've asked the computer the right question , correctly phrased . |
| 25 | Parents and teachers usually judge children 's behaviour by whether it fits in with the usual standards — moral , emotional , social and intellectual — set by the society in which they live . |
| 26 | Alleged perpetrators usually denied allegations but even when admission was forthcoming full personal responsibility for events was not necessarily accepted by the perpetrator who might allege that he was provoked . |
| 27 | Children usually exhibit symptoms or signals long before they run away : they may lie , steal , truant , experiment with drugs or alcohol , create conflict , throw tantrums , be angry or depressed ; finally they run away . |
| 28 | Courses usually take students in September although some accept students after Christmas and Easter . |
| 29 | These social dimensions of accessibility may be very important to the quality of life , but rural residents usually face problems of accessibility because of spatial separation ; theirs is a problem of physical accessibility , which requires that an individual must be able to command the transport facilities needed to reach the requisite supply points at appropriate times . |
| 30 | Such systems usually comprise rows of back-to-back adjustable pallet racking up to 12 metres high and separated by gangways as little as 1.2 metres wide — and rarely more than 1.9 metres wide . |