Example sentences of "usually [vb -s] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purchaser of shares usually receives a short period of interest-free credit due to settlement lag . |
| 2 | The St Patrick 's Day Show is always held in Dublin and all green stars awarded are usually guaranteed majors , which usually encourages a large entry . |
| 3 | The property agreement usually involves a small payment to the relevant surface and/or mineral rights owners . |
| 4 | A breeding tank for tropical species usually needs a higher temperature , with a rise in temperature often triggering spawning ( about 5°C increase ) . |
| 5 | When any supply of magma is present below a volcano , it usually contains a great deal of gas , and this gas is often at high pressure . |
| 6 | This usually covers a short period to assist the applicant in defining a work programme . |
| 7 | For example , the lesser celandine , which usually looks a uniform yellow , would develop a dark centre . |
| 8 | In the mating season the male usually has a striking red-orange eyebrow , but these were still nearly all white although it was already June . |
| 9 | He suggested that the one who asks for containment usually has a simpler personality than the container who has a tendency to dissociate . |
| 10 | In Britain , however , because of ministerial responsibility and because of the suspicion that the appropriate ministry could do the job much better than a new , inexperienced board ( which usually has a lower calibre of staff ) , the ministries concerned have their own sections on tourism , forestry and the countryside which go over everything the board in question proposes , giving authorizations , suggestions or exercising a veto . |
| 11 | The question is , as you rightly say , in psychoanalysis , the analyst usually has a vast amount much more than people normally realize , I mean , I recall from my own analysis , and mean I was going between two and four times a week erm , for an hour each time and it was a good six months before she would make any interpretations , and I used to get very frustrated , you know , I used to say things like , well , what do you think of this , Miss , you know . |
| 12 | Sometimes accompanied by a guitar but more often by mandolins , the singer usually has a tremulous voice powerful enough not to need microphones . |
| 13 | It 's a package that can incorporate desirable features like auto-focus , auto-wind , flash , wide-angle lens ( 28 or 35mm ) , DX coding for auto film speed setting , and usually has a standard screw thread hole for mounting in the base . |
| 14 | Usually has a well black I guess . |
| 15 | It is designed for use only in Force 3+ and usually has a small daggerboard . |
| 16 | Even the smallest garden in Madeira usually has a small courtyard with pergola for vine , passion fruit or rose and numerous pot plants — orchids , anthuriums and ferns . |
| 17 | It usually has a definite purpose and a particular or planned outcome . |
| 18 | If we shake someone and ask him if he was asleep he usually has a definite answer . |
| 19 | Microscopic : The male has an asymmetrical dorsal lobe and barbed spicules ; the female usually has a vulval flap . |
| 20 | When used for drains , this type of pipe usually has a plain end and is jointed with a plastic sleeve containing sealing rings . |
| 21 | Rush usually has a high sense of occasion for landmarks but his 200th league goal for Liverpool came when the master hit man seemed to mistime Don Hutchison 's chip eight yards out . |
| 22 | Each workshop usually has a particular theme and the theme for the 7th workshop was model-based reasoning with particular emphasis on applications . |
| 23 | Glass that has been buried usually develops a distinctive iridescence and onion-skin texture . |
| 24 | However , the cost is a disadvantage as the full party usually costs a third more than a single hour . |
| 25 | A Siddiqi speech usually includes a few references to the ‘ corrupt bogheap of western culture ’ . |
| 26 | While doing this the bird usually adopts a particular posture , with wing and tail spread , allowing access to the base of its feathers . |
| 27 | Such reluctance is reinforced by the relatively small savings which would be made by reducing labour costs , as the capital intensity of production is so high , and also by the fact that there is less opportunity to shed labour in the downturn when using highly automated plant because running such plant at all usually requires a certain fixed minimum number of workers . |
| 28 | Whichever of these two is the loser usually suffers a considerable loss . |
| 29 | Due to the large spread ( i.e. difference between buying and selling prices ) , it usually takes a substantial rise to enable investors to sell out at a profit . |
| 30 | One day there will be a serious industrial accident ; there are occasional near misses and worse ; but it usually takes a good measure of folly , inattention and misfortune to overwhelm good plant and a safe system . |