Example sentences of "usually [verb] to [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 He usually refers to Francis as Mr. Architect Webster .
2 It would be possible for it to be installed in Canterbury as the majority of calls coming into London are usually transferred to Canterbury anyway .
3 The origin of this term is usually attributed to Enthoven ( 1985a ) , who explained his proposals thus :
4 The term ‘ Internal Market ’ is usually attributed to Enthoven , who put forward proposals for greater import and export of patients between health authorities .
5 The creation of the modern fountain pen is usually attributed to Lewis E Waterman in the 1880s .
6 The first observation that the left half of the brain is intimately concerned with the functions of speech is usually attributed to Broca ( 1861 ) although an unpublished manuscript noting a correspondence between defects of language and lesions of the left hemisphere was written by Dax in 1836 .
7 The method to be described is usually attributed to Choleski .
8 There are still some people who believe that the word began as an acronym : in the Middle Ages , when a couple were convicted of fornication , the bailiff would enter in his book — ‘ For unlawful carnal knowledge ’ , which , as business as brisk and prosecutions plenty , was usually abbreviated to F.u.c.k .
9 THE Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( usually abbreviated to JPL ) has been a world leader in space research from the earliest days of the subject .
10 Thermoluminescence dating , usually abbreviated to TL dating , is used for ceramic artefacts , such as pottery .
11 We usually went to Switzerland , Holland , Germany , Denmark , Sweden .
12 We usually go to London in the winter but the house is having alterations done to it so we ca n't .
13 And they usually go to Aberdeen
14 It was Louise who usually attended to Miriam , bringing her a ration of water and helping her nearer the fire at night .
15 To relieve tensions in the week before a Cup tie , players were usually taken to Brighton , where the routine was golf on Monday morning , followed by sea-water baths , more golf , training sessions at Brighton FC 's ground and ( compulsory ) cinema visits in the evenings .
16 There are , of course , occasional appreciative passages , usually referring to Dame Freya 's early books and giving a flavour of phoney objectivity to the whole unworthy enterprise … .
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