Example sentences of "usually [verb] to [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Chapman 's players accepted it , and the mass unemployment of the 1930s is usually pointed to as an explanation for this . |
| 2 | And class work in this area is usually referred to as ‘ technique ’ or simply ‘ acting ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The moving of books to reserve stock or to remote storage is usually referred to as ‘ relegation ’ . |
| 5 | Those in which the form of words used are based on the definition of a ‘ light industrial ’ use , i.e. a Class III use under the Town and Country Planning ( Use Classes ) Order 1972 , usually referred to as a ‘ no nuisance clause ’ , being imposed to protect the amenity of the locality , and |
| 6 | The combination of the chief components , carbon monoxide and hydrogen , are usually referred to as synthesis gas ( or syn-gas ) . |
| 7 | This is usually referred to as the catastrophic version ; and today this has few , if any , adherents . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The very urbane and civilised citizenry of Regency Dublin had succeeded in securing the ‘ restoration ’ of a parliament for Ireland in 1782 , now usually referred to as ‘ Grattan 's Parliament ’ . |
| 10 | ( Children , the other main economically dependent group , are not usually referred to as burdens . ) |
| 11 | There was also controversy raging about their attempt to rewrite the account of the fall of Chiang 's former capital , usually referred to as ‘ the rape of Nanking ’ . |
| 12 | An additional problem for the child language learner is created by the imperfect relationship between a speaker 's knowledge of grammatical rules ( usually referred to as ‘ competence ’ ) and the language which is actually spoken ( usually referred to as ‘ language performance ’ ) . |
| 13 | An additional problem for the child language learner is created by the imperfect relationship between a speaker 's knowledge of grammatical rules ( usually referred to as ‘ competence ’ ) and the language which is actually spoken ( usually referred to as ‘ language performance ’ ) . |
| 14 | This fish has not been given a common name and is usually referred to as the ‘ sebae ’ . |
| 15 | This e.p.s.p. can be blocked by the quinoxalinedione antagonists , such as 6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione ( CNQX ) , and is usually referred to as AMPA receptor-mediated after the selective ligand for these receptors α- amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionate ( AMPA ) . |
| 16 | This plan is usually referred to as the " report " , since it is a report of the conclusion reached by the school 's library or curriculum development committee , but is more properly thought of as the proposal made by the school to the project coordinating committee in respect of the way in which it proposes that a project grant be used . |
| 17 | Red is obtained from the roots of the madder plant ( rubia tinctorum ) and also from the crushed bodies of female insects of the coccus cacti genus , which produce a colour usually referred to as cochineal or carmine red . |
| 18 | The most popular closed back items are usually referred to as " superfine Pekings " ( or just " Pekings " ) , although they may also be called Tientsins , Sinkiangs or simply Chinese . |
| 19 | Firstly those substances which increase relatively rapidly with depth and then become constant and this group are usually referred to as the bio-limiting element or a bi having a bio-limiting distribution . |
| 20 | The epithet most frequently applied to a dirty watercourse is ‘ fishless ’ , while the aristocrat of freshwater fish is also the least tolerant of pollution , hence a watercourse of very good quality is usually referred to as ‘ a trout stream ’ . |
| 21 | In contemporary literature , following the lead of Gramsci 's ( 1971 ) reflections in the Prison Notebooks , these foundations are usually referred to as those of ‘ Fordism ’ . |
| 22 | A relativist will deny that there is a unique category , ‘ science ’ , that is intrinsically superior to other forms of knowledge , although it may well be that individuals or communities place a high value on what is usually referred to as science . |
| 23 | Astronomers have long debated the possibility of a more-distant tenth planet , usually referred to as Planet-X . |
| 24 | B being so sluggish , it is usually referred to as the hysteresis curve . |
| 25 | If the goods are not ‘ stuffed ’ at the seller 's place of business , they are stuffed at the consolidator 's place of business or in terminals or container yards ( usually referred to as Container Freight Stations ( C.F.S. ) or as Container Yard ( C.Y ) points . |
| 26 | The device we call a page printer , by the way , is more usually referred to as a laser printer , much more exciting . |
| 27 | Large computers , usually referred to as ‘ mainframes ’ , require to be housed in special , air-conditioned accommodation . |
| 28 | In the Sirte Basin of eastern Libya , there are magnificent cliff sections , running literally for hundreds of miles , in what is usually referred to as the Marada Formation , of early Miocene ( Burdigalian ) age . |
| 29 | It 's usually referred to as neg |
| 30 | Such organizations are usually referred to as bureaucracies and much contemporary analysis is derived from the work of the German sociologist Max Weber , who saw them as an essential element of contemporary capitalism . |