Example sentences of "as is usually the " in BNC.

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1 Those wanting to avoid rain should avoid winter trips , in December in particular , but , as is usually the case , such generalizations will almost certainly not apply to your trip !
2 Where , as is usually the case , an instrument is laid subject to negative resolution , the position is that it will obtain or , more commonly , retain the force of law unless , within the stipulated time , the House rejects it .
3 The AESOP PEP is a single company PEP ; shares transferred into it do not have to be quoted , as is usually the case with PEPs .
4 If tests for sex differences yield no significant results , as is usually the case , they are often not reported , and are rarely followed up ( Maccoby and Jacklin 1974 , Borrill and Reid 1986 ) .
5 It is said that when a wizard is about to die Death himself turns up to claim him ( instead of delegating the task to a subordinate , such as Disease or Famine , as is usually the case ) .
6 Rincewind knew himself to be almost certainly the worst wizard on the discworld since he knew but one spell ; yet for all that he was still a wizard , and thus by the inexorable laws of magic this meant that upon his demise it would be Death himself who appeared to claim him ( instead of sending one of his numerous servants , as is usually the case ) .
7 This assumes that the bathroom is next to or above the kitchen ( as is usually the case ) ; if running hot water to another room ( a bedroom , say ) will create a very long pipe run , it might be simpler to install a separate instantaneous or small storage heater .
8 We will suppose that the flow in the non-turbulent region is irrotational , as is usually the case in the examples that have been mentioned .
9 When the negative feedback is large enough to satisfy as is usually the case at least over the intended , operational frequency range , the closed-loop gain is and .
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