Example sentences of "usually [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waiting in the Methodist Hall to rehearse the roles of CS Lewis and the woman he spent three blissful years with before her death , Joy Davidman , were Nigel Hawthorne and Jane Lapotaire , another pair of stars not usually to be found out west . |
| 2 | If Marcus , usually to be found in his bedroom , was sitting upon an upright chair , his back straight , his hands on his knees , staring into space , in a posture presumably connected with some technique of meditation , Ludens would wait outside in the hall , or converse quietly with Irina in the kitchen . |
| 3 | Furthermore measurement has usually to be made over a period of time . |
| 4 | He narrowly missed what he thought was a lamp post but turned out to be a tree , and reached for where the handle was usually to be found on a front door . |
| 5 | We talk of shaking with anger , trembling with fear , glowing with satisfaction — and these expressions are usually to be taken literally ; we do , in fact , display our emotions in such ways . |
| 6 | The object is to ride on an unusual or distinctive tram , photograph it and to place it in unusual locations where it is not usually to be seen . |
| 7 | The informant was expected usually to be the person 's nearest relative . |
| 8 | Their father who had started the business , although retired , was still usually to be found there , hovering in the background , his full white beard reminding me of Father Christmas . |
| 9 | Ulrich 's International Periodicals Directory is usually to be found in large libraries and is the recognized international list of periodicals . |
| 10 | They are made usually to be handled by the learner , but how often to you actually see nurses using the models ? |
| 11 | The large old private houses ( quintas ) are usually to be found behind high stone walls , and an open door in a wall can often reveal a charming old garden with bright flowers and shady paths and , perhaps , even a glimpse of the house itself . |
| 12 | Before television and feminine liberation , when the men were out drinking or at football , the women on their off-duty moments were usually to be seen at the window , where their social life was to be found . |
| 13 | Cash is a road addict whose finest moments are usually to be savoured in live performance . |
| 14 | However , during the fifteenth century changes were introduced and we see for the first time representations of corpses , cadavers and skeletons , and it is from these — usually to be found on memorial brasses , and particularly on those in East Anglia — that we acquire our first glimpse of the English shroud . |
| 15 | The last is usually to be regretted but there have been occasions when long-standing marital unhappiness was resolved by admission to residential care in the last years . |
| 16 | A brief session morning and evening is usually to be recommended , avoiding the middle of the day in hot weather . |
| 17 | We may say to the diviner ‘ You mean ’ you have learnt that when you have a certain feeling of strain in your hands , then water is usually to be found so many feet under the ground ? ’ |
| 18 | It is , however , the financial losses of retirement from the labour force that seem usually to be taken as the key to the involuntary shift from independence to dependency in old age . |
| 19 | Turkey vultures are common on Kidney Island and are usually to be seen soaring on two-tone black and translucent wings , peering down at visitors with a calculating look in their beady eye set in a head of bare red skin . |
| 20 | We have already encountered Baden-Powell in his romantic — progressive mode of address , but before the First World War he was more usually to be found singing a different tune : Here he is again , sounding off to the Royal United Services Institute in 1911 , in a typical Edwardian Tory response to the Liberal government 's programme of welfare reforms : |
| 21 | However , in practice , it normally requires very many iterations before convergence is achieved ; moreover , the process of recovering eigenvectors outlined above is apt to be ill-conditioned , and some other procedure is usually to be preferred . |
| 22 | However , older cats are also at risk if introduced into those special households , but the exposure has usually to be longer . |
| 23 | He is usually to be found in his pyjama bottoms , shaving , when she comes through the door . |
| 24 | Dictionaries and encyclopedias are usually to be found in this section . |
| 25 | In addition , the reader was provided with information more usually to be found in an encyclopaedia than in a dictionary . |
| 26 | His finest and most original writing is usually to be found in his prose , rather than his poems . |
| 27 | The subject of this chapter is not usually to be found in books on polymers . |
| 28 | Ajayi was trying to cultivate the seneschal 's acquaintance ( when her sore leg and stiff back let her get down to the basement levels where he was usually to be found ) whereas Quiss had started out trying to intimidate him . |
| 29 | The real solution to the problem is usually to be found in the system BIOS . |
| 30 | But the hand-woven wicker baskets used to carry oranges , lotus root , carrots and green celery from the countryside are dismantled in the market place , usually to be flung into the river . |