Example sentences of "[am/are] not usually [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scales are not usually given except as scale bars with units varying from one to another but the main chart is approximately 1:239,300 and the Caledonian Canal is in the order of 1:80,000 . |
| 2 | The words of the Green party are not usually cited by Conservative Members to justify their own position . |
| 3 | Semantic interactions which involve this sort of meaning are not usually channelled through the syntactic structure , hence there is no syntactic dimension to any lexical dissonance which may arise . |
| 4 | Since the waves are not usually channelled in any particular direction , the signal strength becomes weaker the further the receiver is from the transmitter — in fact , when the distance between transmitter and receiver is doubled , the signal strength is quartered . |
| 5 | ( Statistical terms such as variance , skewness and kurtosis , though easily defined in terms of the above molecular weight averages , are not usually employed in polymer science . ) |
| 6 | BIRTH OF A BUSINESS COUNSELLOR Chartered accountants are not usually motivated to be competitors , salesmen or traders . |
| 7 | Paradigm shifts are not usually detected by citation studies , because of the anomalous publication of ‘ delayed-action ’ papers ( Lindsey ) , ( Garfield 's ‘ sleepers ) . |
| 8 | Ulcers are not usually seen in one particular specialist department in most hospitals . |
| 9 | Chefs are not usually noted for their even-temper and calmess , however , and Bohringer 's sleepy-eyed nature was at odds with this . |
| 10 | These developments are not usually undertaken with educational applications in mind . |
| 11 | More skilled jobs are not usually undertaken by the otherwise unemployed , who are mainly to be found in low-skilled jobs . |
| 12 | ( After all the voices of male apprentices are not usually heard in the debates over apprenticeship . ) |
| 13 | Yet their close knowledge of the local community , their personal experience of curriculum innovation with a far-reaching impact like TVEI or the National Curriculum , and , in many cases , their role in the training of company employees on release to college are not usually exploited by companies . |
| 14 | ( Children , the other main economically dependent group , are not usually referred to as burdens . ) |
| 15 | Dependent children are not usually covered by superannuation , although you should notify your employer if you are the sole breadwinner . |
| 16 | By contrast , issueless riots are not usually underpinned by such legitimating belief : ‘ Protest and demands for social change are not significant elements in the genesis of the issueless riot , nor does the issueless riot tend to result in changes in people 's life conditions ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 17 | This obviously makes explicit what is generally true of performance indicators : that they are not usually generated from a systematic record ( and when they are , the system is not as reliable as a bookkeeping system can be ) . |
| 18 | Vascular access may increase the risk of infection but cannulas are not usually colonised by organisms originating in the gut . |
| 19 | The water-soluble vitamins , however , are not usually stored in the body in any great amount , so deficiency can develop within a few weeks or months if the diet is poor . |
| 20 | Rights to participate on a winding up are not usually taken into account , as financial statements are generally prepared on a going concern basis and , accordingly , such rights are not usually relevant to accounting . |
| 21 | The new jobs that do arrive are not usually taken by locals — only 10 per cent of jobs on the Isle of Dogs have gone to locals ( Tym and Partners , 1987 ) . |
| 22 | However , patent infections may develop in foals and these are not usually associated with clinical signs . |
| 23 | Mandarinfish ( callionymidae ) have a poisonous mucus which deters predators and are not usually bothered by larger fish . |
| 24 | Conventional files are not usually shared between applications . |
| 25 | Fish are not usually offered in styles suitable to the health-conscious . |
| 26 | Butterflyfish can normally be considered good members of an aquarium community , as they are not usually attacked by other fish . |
| 27 | ( c ) For left arithmetic shift , when the sign bit is changed ; rounding errors in right arithmetic shift are not usually considered to be a case of overflow . |
| 28 | With rectangular Cartesian coordinates in Euclidean space the distinction between vector and covector components disappears , which explains why covector components are not usually used in Newtonian mechanics . |
| 29 | Newspaper reports of rape are not usually thought of as pornography , though sometimes they are in effect . |
| 30 | Among these he included the educational system and also many institutions that are not usually thought of as part of the state , such as the family , churches , the media , trade unions and political parties . |