Example sentences of "were usually [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His walks with adults were usually a great deal longer than that . |
| 2 | To offset this , there were usually a few well-known local characters hanging about , anticipating their presence being required . |
| 3 | They were usually a long way from the London merchants who set up as gentry , but this group represented nonetheless a significant local urban aristocracy . |
| 4 | Well they were usually a line of kids standing along the wall or something and one set out in the middle of the field and then you had to touch them and then you 'd be back to the wall and they had to do it . |
| 5 | Luckily they were usually no more than a few feet deep . |
| 6 | In East Punjab these were usually the same man , almost invariably a Brahmin by caste . |
| 7 | Not even his young sister — and they were usually the worst of all . |
| 8 | Fights between skins were usually the result of some territorial infringement . |
| 9 | His approach to everything was meticulous , and his decisions were usually the right ones . |
| 10 | Both of them could attribute their popularity to the fact that in the old days , when opening hours were not so well controlled , they stayed open longer than others , with the result that patrons of The Cock and The Bull were usually the most tipsy . |
| 11 | It did seem that the main force squadrons in other Groups had more casualties than we did , partly because they had to cope with fully awakened defences , gun and searchlight crews as well as fighters , after PFF had done their job , and perhaps also because they had a higher proportion of new , inexperienced crews who were usually the first to come to grief . |
| 12 | The chair backs were usually the most heavily carved , in relief or cut-out . |
| 13 | In Africa they were the hybrid offspring of an eagle and a wolf , and were usually the guardians of a fortune in gems , hidden in mountain caves or underground tunnels . |
| 14 | He also insisted that parents were usually the best people to bring up their own children , and should be encouraged and enabled to do so wherever possible . |
| 15 | Her tears were usually the result of some slight from her stepchildren . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly , part-time women were usually left to management 's mercies and when recession struck they were usually the first to go . |
| 17 | According to George , his sort were usually the worst ; they were after redemption . |
| 18 | Despite the amount of time I spent worrying about them , the questions themselves were usually the same : what happened to John ? |
| 19 | He chose schools because they were usually the centre of the village activities and he hoped that the schoolmaster as well as taking care of the books would be likely to encourage both his pupils and their parents to read them . |
| 20 | The victims of the death squads were usually the poor and destitute , most of whom were abandoned street children and petty criminals . |
| 21 | Since the US firms were usually the largest , their slower growth of sales led to a reduced concentration in the industries concerned — measured by the sales of the top three firms as a proportion of the top 20 . |