Example sentences of "is usually [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bell is usually serviced by a main umbilical with individual diver umbilicals terminating in the bell . |
| 2 | ALTHOUGH traditionally the Speaker is a figure who presides impartially over the Commons , his election by the whole House is usually influenced by strong party political currents . |
| 3 | The choice of working fluid , unless dictated by the available standard equipment , is usually influenced by two considerations , the achievement of the desired values of the governing non-dimensional parameters and the performance of flow transducers . |
| 4 | The resulting mull , which should be optically clear , is usually examined as a thin film , pressed between two salt windows . |
| 5 | Decentralisation is usually examined from two perspectives : |
| 6 | The command is usually stated in full , eg ‘ hold down Alt and tap U for underlining . |
| 7 | The security market line is usually stated in terms of rates of return but , as discussed in Section 7.1 , the notion of a rate of return for futures has proved problematic . |
| 8 | The solvent is usually compounded with an anionic or non-ionic detergent although amphoterics are sometimes used . |
| 9 | Whereas hypocrisy in the tragic mode is usually revealed to the audience directly , in advance of the action , here Shakespeare makes Angelo declare himself to a second person , Isabella , confident that — as Falstaff says when he is planning his pretence of having killed Hotspur in battle — ‘ Nothing confutes me but e-yes , and nobody sees me ’ ( 1 Henry IV V.iv.125f ) : And indeed , Angelo 's position is impregnable , unless some force from outside , with superior knowledge , can expose him . |
| 10 | The taste is good enough to send half a million people a year squirrelling around in the woods of northern Michigan , in search of something that is often no more than a couple of inches high and is usually hidden under a thick pile of forest-floor debris . |
| 11 | What is usually said about the invention of printing is that it greatly expanded an earlier minority culture , and at last made it into a majority culture . |
| 12 | The first constituent of the so-called ‘ toxic mix ’ is usually said to be lifers — prisoners serving sentences of life imprisonment . |
| 13 | When numerical data is used for making generalizations about the world this is usually based on limited information or samples . |
| 14 | This sort of ‘ diagnosis ’ is usually based on minimal evidence and does untold harm to the self-confidence of mothers at a time when they most need help and support . |
| 15 | The compensation package offered is usually based on a local salary , which , when converted into sterling , is considerably higher than the workers could earn in the UK . |
| 16 | Referent power The use of the power of others is usually based on admiration of another ( e.g. gods , famous leaders , rock stars ) . |
| 17 | The analysis is usually based on the strict modernism which was the ideology of the professions involved , and is epitomized in comments such as ‘ we seem to find that the aesthetics of an industrial product will take care of themselves automatically after we have provided a balance between function , simplicity and utility ’ ( Bayley 1979 : 71 ) . |
| 18 | Either staff or other residents may initiate this segregation , and it is usually based on behaviour that is seen as disruptive , so those who are segregated in this way are not necessarily all suffering from dementia . |
| 19 | The setting up of such a waveform detection system is usually based on experimental observation of the current waveform with open . |
| 20 | It is usually based on the percentage of those graduating with ‘ good ’ degrees , ie those who obtain first or upper second class degrees . |
| 21 | Their recommendation to farmers is usually based upon an ad hoc or more systematic land capability assessment . |
| 22 | This is an important point , since in many libraries selection is part of an integrated approach which also includes acquisition and cataloguing , and the national bibliography 's machine-readable records are used for all these functions ( although the actual selection process is usually based upon the print version ) . |
| 23 | Secondly , the weeding process itself is usually based upon three criteria , described in more detail below . |
| 24 | The job involves a substantial amount of fieldwork , such as visiting families where there is a record of absence , lateness or other difficulties at school , and the Educational Welfare Service ( staffed by the EWOs ) is usually based in the community rather than the Town Hall , in a school or small area office . |
| 25 | The description and demonstration of the working of such systems has always been considered a major advance in anthropological theory and is usually traced to the publication in 1940 of African Political Systems by M. Fortes and E. E. Evans-Pritchard with their respective discussions of the Tallensi of West Africa and the Nuer of East Africa . |
| 26 | Rather surprisingly , it was published not in the pages of Nature or Science , where hot news is usually aired for rapid communication among scientists , but between the sober covers of the Astrophysical Journal ( vol 248. p 1144 ) , a pillar of respectability among the astronomical establishment . |
| 27 | However , many studies are still done on animals at or just below the surface , where dolphin behaviour is usually affected by the presence of the human observer . |
| 28 | For example , it is now possible to produce cassava seedlings , the parental line of which is usually affected by a mosaic virus , by culturing unaffected cells that can be propagated in sterile conditions ( Tudge 1988 ) . |
| 29 | While an authority 's management style is usually affected by environmental factors there always remains an element of choice . |
| 30 | The response is usually related to that at 1kHz ; this is 10.103 per cent of the maximum and not 10 per cent as might be presumed . |