Example sentences of "[subord] [art] usual [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We left , plugging along a red and arid coast for Kas , where the usual deputation of dolphins bounded out to greet us . |
| 2 | Every disease presents its own peculiar problems which fascinate and challenge investigators , but tuberculosis has more than the usual range of difficulties . |
| 3 | It easily unlocked his heart , one that bore more than the usual share of tragedy . |
| 4 | The thousand pound machine he 's riding is called a recumbant , it 's faster than the usual type of racing bike and has the added advantage of giving it 's rider , as the name suggests , a more leisurely riding position . |
| 5 | Normally , a flock of almost 3000 sheep was kept , producing a better grade of wool than the usual run of scraggy downland animals . |
| 6 | The greater authority of the aggressor male perpetrator is further emphasised by the fact that , of the assaults against males , those coming to the notice of the newspapers largely concerned a much older set of defendants than the usual run of offenders coming before the courts . |
| 7 | When he sold his stations in 1985 , he got $2bn — 15 times the cash flow of the stations , rather than the usual multiple of nine to 11 . |
| 8 | The manner of his death ensured that more than the usual number of people were at the funeral . |
| 9 | All the competitors agreed that they had a challenging game and more than the usual number of wet balls and soggy bunkers ! ! |
| 10 | The peeled-off clothes lie in a tumbled pile , and — at a velocity far greater than the usual speed of a naked mortal 's shy and shivering run — I convey her into the water , and out of the shallows . |
| 11 | We selected contacts with the following characteristics : * Those deeper than the usual limit of the fish echoes ( 30 m ) . |
| 12 | In cases where we can identify people who would be penalized more than the usual sort of fifty pence charge . |
| 13 | He , after all , found her quite as repulsive as she found him and , as the two of them waltzed from oven to sink , from window to cutlery drawer , staring up , down , sideways , anywhere but at each other , Henry had always assumed that this was no more than the usual politesse of a failed English , suburban marriage . |
| 14 | Although the usual coefficient of determination or scaled deviance can be used to indicate the global fit of any specified model , it is also important to examine model performance when estimating populations over areal units other than the wards from which the models were derived . |
| 15 | At the wedding ceremony , when the usual problem of naming his father had arisen , John put ‘ Lawrence Tiller ( deceased ) ’ but his son was called Lawrence , was still alive and now a man of twenty-nine , working as general manager in the business . |
| 16 | He did not wake when the usual procession of night sisters and men in white coats came in and out . |
| 17 | The cinema was the Screen on the Hill in Hampstead , one of the new and welcome brand of cinema which dispenses coffee and snacks as well as the usual array of warm Maltesers and plaque-inducing popcorn . |
| 18 | As well as the usual smattering of quotations from the likes of Diderot and Montaigne , it features figures , diagrams , a glossary of technical terms and a bibliography — all the paraphernalia , that is , of an academic monograph . |
| 19 | The condition of the people of Hartfield , Hawksborough and Shoyswell hundreds differed from that of the rest of the region only in so far as the usual string of £1 assessments was balanced in each of them by one of the very few three-figure ones ( see Table 2.17 ) . |
| 20 | Anything of quality was exciting in those days , for the usual run of food was of a dullness today hardly comprehensible . |