Example sentences of "is usually [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The first constituent of the so-called ‘ toxic mix ’ is usually said to be lifers — prisoners serving sentences of life imprisonment . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The cost of the service is usually related to the length of time customers are actively connected to the host computer . |
| 6 | This anaemia is usually related to the presence of a lesion in the gastrointestinal tract , rather than to the drug itself . |
| 7 | The dividend is usually expressed to be cumulative , since in the case of equity share capital there is a presumption that dividends are non-cumulative unless otherwise stated . |
| 8 | However , the auditors ' task is usually expressed to be to state the " fair price " of the shares ; considered further at 3.5 . |
| 9 | So there 's often a contradiction as to whether programmes are addressed to their actual or potential audiences or to a hypothetical audience , which in current affairs and news broadcasts is usually assumed to be a male viewer . |
| 10 | Loss of the nuptial pads is usually assumed to be a consequence of mating on land because , in other frogs and toads , their function appears to be to help the male to grip onto the female 's slippery back while mating in water . |
| 11 | Since Bentham 's position is usually assumed to be rigorist , it is worth pointing out that his main formulations , such as we have described above , seem to be non-rigorist . |
| 12 | Similarly the south gate is usually assumed to be at the end of Southgate Street where an internal street points in the direction of Boley Hill ; the existence of a cemetery in this region outside the walls would support this assumption . |
| 13 | The missing actor is usually assumed to be the writer . |
| 14 | Some priority is usually given to MdBs seeking reelection . |
| 15 | In explaining rural out-migration , emphasis is usually given to economic factors , especially the problems of employment outlined in chapters 2 and 3 , although factors such as planning policies , housing markets and the decline of services are also important . |
| 16 | However , some on-the-job training , in skills such as cash handling or food preparation , is usually given to seasonal workers and this allows them to be moved into tasks which would have been denied them at the start of their employment . |
| 17 | Most attention is usually given to correlations of the same component of velocity at points separated in a direction either parallel to that velocity component ( Fig. 19.4(b) ) or perpendicular to it ( Fig. 19.4(c) ) . |
| 18 | Although the term censorship is usually applied to instances of government interference in programme making , Brittan uses it much more broadly to include such structural and institutional constraints as the IBA 's power to withdraw franchises and its right to vet schedules and programmes . |
| 19 | They could therefore be called continuants , though the term is usually applied to the frictionless continuant /r/ . |
| 20 | The latter term is usually applied to the average number of word choices permitted by the system 's grammar . |
| 21 | The scanner is usually fixed to a circular platform on which the subject is placed . |
| 22 | Where Newco issues debentures in exchange for Target shares , an attempt is usually made to structure these so that they do not constitute " qualifying corporate bonds " as defined in s117 TCGA 1992 . |
| 23 | Today the Welsh breed is usually understood to be the Welsh Black ( Gwartheg Duon Cymreig ) , a dual-purpose type , though primarily used for beef production in suckler herds , especially on the uplands , either as a purebred or crossbred cow . |
| 24 | For instance in the context of the law relating to sale of goods , a warranty is usually understood to be a representation relating to the subject matter of the contract , which is of secondary importance , and whose breach therefore entitles the injured party to damages but not to terminate the contract . |
| 25 | And class work in this area is usually referred to as ‘ technique ’ or simply ‘ acting ’ . |
| 26 | The simplest and most fundamental aspect of cognisance ( fundamental philosophically and developmentally ) is what is usually referred to as ‘ self-world dualism ’ : the knowledge that there is a physical world out there of which I am an experiencer and that is distinct from me . |
| 27 | False consciousness is usually referred to by Marx by the term ‘ ideology ’ and that is how the word will be used in this book . |
| 28 | The moving of books to reserve stock or to remote storage is usually referred to as ‘ relegation ’ . |
| 29 | This is usually referred to as the catastrophic version ; and today this has few , if any , adherents . |
| 30 | This behaviour , observed by many owners when their pets have been chastised or corrected in some way , is usually referred to as a dignified sulk . |