Example sentences of "[prep] the usual " in BNC.
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| 1 | But early yesterday , several thousand people with different ideas assembled at the Dynamo Metro station , and began marching towards Red Square , where officials were putting the finishing touches to preparations for the usual annual parade . |
| 2 | Higher taxes , the most sensible route , are probably out — both for the usual political reasons and because this year nobody wants to reopen last October 's budget agreement . |
| 3 | Tremayne , Mackie and Perkin were all in the family room for the usual evening drinks . |
| 4 | There has however been a slowdown in the French nuclear programme though not for the usual reasons of safety problems and public opposition . |
| 5 | Figure 6.4 shows that the noise level in the Nightingale ward and in the cubicle during the night was above the figure suggested for the usual bedroom ; and during the day , the level in the ITU was above the ‘ annoying ’ level . |
| 6 | Whichever way , the devil will seal the pact for the usual price of his new agent 's soul . |
| 7 | Fleetlands had no respect for the usual scenario which has so often rendered Alton a 2–1 win , and extended their lead in the 28th minute when John Mumford headed home Edney 's corner cross . |
| 8 | It 's a privilege ; I 'd say more , but I would only be cut for the usual reason , lack of |
| 9 | I warmed to it first of all because , like the Eggle New York elsewhere in this issue , it obviously is n't trying to be anything else ; it can stand on its own merits without any need for the usual identikit comparisons . |
| 10 | He was not expected at Bramshill until after luncheon and had planned to take his time over the journey to north Hampshire , visiting churches at Sherborne St John and Winchfield and lunching at a pub near Stratfield Saye before arriving at Bramshill in time for the usual courtesies with the Commandant before his two-thirty lecture . |
| 11 | We shaved , for the oxygen mask would drive you crazy if you did n't , showered and went to the mess hall for the usual powdered eggs for breakfast . |
| 12 | When the community midwife calls at home on day 6 or 7 to take the heel prick blood sample for the usual screening tests she asks whether or not they want their son tested for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and marks the screening card accordingly . |
| 13 | While the following day 's mixed owner sale was also successful , it was also business as usual with greedy consignors and less than spectacular goods making for the usual ups and downs . |
| 14 | Direct comparisons between studies are problematic for the usual problems of varying methodologies . |
| 15 | As for football , it also came under the hammer for the usual reasons . |
| 16 | But just in case Vecchi tied in with the five thousand reward Mr. Bonanza was posting , I did n't see why I should settle for the usual sawbuck . ’ |
| 17 | Luckily I had some microworm available — they were far too small for the usual Mbuna first foods — and they were soon gaining in size . |
| 18 | In a ’ bad ’ week , directly employed labour used under the terms of an incentive scheme may fail to qualify for the usual level of bonus payment . |
| 19 | I asked for the usual guarantees — that the object would n't endanger my ship or anyone on it , and that carrying it would breach no SenFed laws . |
| 20 | We reckon in about four and a half years I should have gone up at least a grade , so , allowing for the usual increments , and assuming that the mortgage rate does n't rise above the present eleven per cent , I should think we could afford to let Juliet stop work then . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ All for the usual reason — he needed the money . ’ |
| 22 | Someone must have done some extensive informing , because MacLane picked Susan and me out of the crowd without even the pretence of looking around for the usual suspects . |
| 23 | I would therefore display a becoming restiveness , or look round for the usual dispatch-case , so that when he started slowly rising to his feet , which he did as if by some inner mechanism , I could , like an adjoining lift , follow him slightly behindhand . |
| 24 | The identified block is ready for the usual editing options — cutting , copying , moving and pasting . |
| 25 | It is becoming a tradition in our family ( extended by friends ) to do a fairly long walk between Christmas and the New Year , to walk off some of the effects of the turkey and tone up the system for the usual see-the-New- Year-in celebrations . |
| 26 | ‘ For the usual kind of diplomat , yes . |
| 27 | We were pleased to find the palace deserted ( or so we thought ) except for the usual steward and bailiffs who stayed throughout the year to clean the rooms , wash the hangings and sweep out the dirt once the court moved on . |
| 28 | He was standing in his pyjamas in his bedroom , which was empty but for the usual furniture . |
| 29 | Is it for the usual Keynesian reasons , that is , because of periodic changes in aggregate demand and consequent changes in the demand for labour ? |
| 30 | Accordingly , the draftsman should not provide for the usual disregard of tenant 's improvements in the valuation formula . |