Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the usual " in BNC.
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| 1 | The adventurers will probably want to go through the usual routine of tipping the earth out of the coffin , smashing it , and suchlike , but then they have the pressing problem of getting out of this room . |
| 2 | There 's no need to go through the usual rigmarole of minimizing your word processor application , opening a spreadsheet , typing in the data and then copying and pasting it back into the word processor . |
| 3 | Her true instinct was always to work behind the usual social frameworks : family , connections , position , conventions , those established forms that can be used like weapons when they are mastered . |
| 4 | ‘ Her true instinct was always to work behind the usual social frameworks : family , connections , position , conventions , those established forms that can be used like weapons when they are mastered . |
| 5 | One objective of the analysis is to show that this institutional arrangement will cause local authority spending to differ from the usual predictions of the traditional model . |
| 6 | Karin went down with a group of 20 divers expecting to come across the usual remnants from ships like portholes and anchors . |
| 7 | To conform with the usual ICRC practice , they would not carry armed US soldiers ( as the original US plan had envisaged ) . |
| 8 | After Tomkins had served the second glass , Robins looked at me almost quizzically , and said , ‘ I 've seen a few doctors come and go in the islands , but you do n't seem to fit into the usual pattern . ’ |
| 9 | When the communicative support system with which they have grown up fails to function in the usual way , the effect , arguably , will be to make the children regress or behave in some other aberrant manner — for instance , to stop asking questions or to agree with whatever the adult suggests . |
| 10 | While in the United States the unfolding tale of corruption and mismanagement at the EPA has tended to focus on the usual mainstays of White House interference and ‘ sweet-heart ’ deals with past industrial employers , little attention has been paid to the Lysenkoist assaults of the Reagan administration on the EPA 's scientific integrity . |
| 11 | Instead he had to contend with the usual difficulty of those with rights in personam : if the trustee was insolvent , they would be worth little . |
| 12 | This week 's board meeting at Feethams is scheduled to deal with the usual monthly business and no more . |
| 13 | We then have the composite view that an effect is necessitated by a causal circumstance and , furthermore , is related to a so-called sufficient condition in the way described , having to do with the usual background . |
| 14 | In a ’ bad ’ week , directly employed labour used under the terms of an incentive scheme may fail to qualify for the usual level of bonus payment . |
| 15 | The object of the exercise as presented in such channels of communication is not how to get the most nutritious meals prepared in the shortest possible time but rather how to go beyond the usual range of meals with time-consuming inventiveness and culinary skill . |
| 16 | They sent up a thick screen of flak between the Goshawk planes and the second balloon , damning anyone who tried to break through The usual haphazard spray of machine-gun fire sprinkled the air , inaccurate and half-spent at that height , but it only needed one bulletin the head to destroy a whole aircraft . |
| 17 | But just to add to the usual conspiracy theories — why could n't it be repeated at the end of the game — surely it was one of the key points of the game . |
| 18 | To young to join in the usual share-out of meat after a kill , he had waited instead for his mother to give him a portion of hers . |
| 19 | At this stage , we have an opportunity to ensure that the legislation will allow their voices to be heard through formal channels so that they do not have to resort to the usual practice of writing to the appropriate organisations . |
| 20 | Despite that , Jefferies refuses to resort to the usual remedy of a ten-man defence . |