Example sentences of "[is] usually [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bell is usually serviced by a main umbilical with individual diver umbilicals terminating in the bell . |
| 2 | The resulting mull , which should be optically clear , is usually examined as a thin film , pressed between two salt windows . |
| 3 | The solvent is usually compounded with an anionic or non-ionic detergent although amphoterics are sometimes used . |
| 4 | Whereas hypocrisy in the tragic mode is usually revealed to the audience directly , in advance of the action , here Shakespeare makes Angelo declare himself to a second person , Isabella , confident that — as Falstaff says when he is planning his pretence of having killed Hotspur in battle — ‘ Nothing confutes me but e-yes , and nobody sees me ’ ( 1 Henry IV V.iv.125f ) : And indeed , Angelo 's position is impregnable , unless some force from outside , with superior knowledge , can expose him . |
| 5 | The taste is good enough to send half a million people a year squirrelling around in the woods of northern Michigan , in search of something that is often no more than a couple of inches high and is usually hidden under a thick pile of forest-floor debris . |
| 6 | What is usually said about the invention of printing is that it greatly expanded an earlier minority culture , and at last made it into a majority culture . |
| 7 | The compensation package offered is usually based on a local salary , which , when converted into sterling , is considerably higher than the workers could earn in the UK . |
| 8 | The analysis is usually based on the strict modernism which was the ideology of the professions involved , and is epitomized in comments such as ‘ we seem to find that the aesthetics of an industrial product will take care of themselves automatically after we have provided a balance between function , simplicity and utility ’ ( Bayley 1979 : 71 ) . |
| 9 | It is usually based on the percentage of those graduating with ‘ good ’ degrees , ie those who obtain first or upper second class degrees . |
| 10 | This is an important point , since in many libraries selection is part of an integrated approach which also includes acquisition and cataloguing , and the national bibliography 's machine-readable records are used for all these functions ( although the actual selection process is usually based upon the print version ) . |
| 11 | Their recommendation to farmers is usually based upon an ad hoc or more systematic land capability assessment . |
| 12 | The job involves a substantial amount of fieldwork , such as visiting families where there is a record of absence , lateness or other difficulties at school , and the Educational Welfare Service ( staffed by the EWOs ) is usually based in the community rather than the Town Hall , in a school or small area office . |
| 13 | The description and demonstration of the working of such systems has always been considered a major advance in anthropological theory and is usually traced to the publication in 1940 of African Political Systems by M. Fortes and E. E. Evans-Pritchard with their respective discussions of the Tallensi of West Africa and the Nuer of East Africa . |
| 14 | For example , it is now possible to produce cassava seedlings , the parental line of which is usually affected by a mosaic virus , by culturing unaffected cells that can be propagated in sterile conditions ( Tudge 1988 ) . |
| 15 | However , many studies are still done on animals at or just below the surface , where dolphin behaviour is usually affected by the presence of the human observer . |
| 16 | The cost of the service is usually related to the length of time customers are actively connected to the host computer . |
| 17 | This anaemia is usually related to the presence of a lesion in the gastrointestinal tract , rather than to the drug itself . |
| 18 | Wilfred Owen was a poet during the first world war and all his poems contain a strong message about war which is usually expressed through a personal experience . |
| 19 | Competition among ruwatu between communities is usually expressed through the accusations of sorcery attack , often in the wake of marriages which shift the residential alignments within the territory , and thus respective follower size . |
| 20 | The relationship between overheads and this basic productive capacity is usually expressed as a percentage uplift on the hourly rate ( r ) referred to earlier . |
| 21 | Harmonic distortion is usually expressed as a percentage . |
| 22 | Again this is usually expressed as a percentage . |
| 23 | This relationship is usually expressed as a percentage . |
| 24 | The level of expenditure and expenditure growth is usually expressed as a percentage of a measure of the total economic activity of a particular country , such as Gross National Product . |
| 25 | The cancellation fee is usually expressed as a percentage of the contract price , and varies on a sliding scale . |
| 26 | It is usually expressed as the number of moles of solute in one litre ( that is , one cubic decimetre ) of solution : where n(X) denotes the amount of solute X , Vdenotes the volume of solution and [ X ] denotes the concentration of solute X in solution . |
| 27 | It is usually expressed in the vaguest terms , like a horoscope in the newspapers . |
| 28 | Within Eastern traditions this is usually expressed in the language of self-transcendence , annihilating the ego . |
| 29 | Registration is usually conducted in the room after tea . |
| 30 | The work is usually conducted by a solicitor ( see Legal Alternatives panel ) , who checks all the legal documents like the title deeds and lease , in the case of a lease-hold property , to make everything is in order . |