The phrase "an usual mode for" is not correct in written English.
The correct form is "a usual mode for" because "usual" begins with a consonant sound.
Example: "Using a usual mode for communication can help streamline our discussions."
Alternatives: "a common method for" or "a typical way for".
To illustrate this, Bert took the risk of starting out his talk in the usual mode for a speaker.
What follows is less a series of revelations and recriminations -- the usual mode for films of this type -- but a careful process of discovery and subtle unease.
"One can speculate that at this delicate historical/religious time, it was thought that the usual modes for the transformation of the king were not sufficient, and so the priest-embalmers prepared the body in such a way so as to literally emphasize the divinity of the king and his identification with Osiris," Ikram writes.
If it's not, and the country's politicians stay in a "business as usual" mode, the Indian economy could be in for even a rougher ride in the coming years.
Walking on the ground is the usual mode of feeding for the common hoopoe (Upupa), the ground rollers, and for a few hornbills.
Distance and time to care from patient's usual residence to the PICU will be calculated using appropriate measures for the usual mode of transport (network analysis for locations usually serviced by road ambulance and the combination of both road network analysis and Euclidean distance for areas usually served by fixed-wing or helicopter).
To assess the predictors of uptake and maintenance of walking and cycling, and of switching to the car as the usual mode of travel, for commuting.
About the 4th century bc, the fashion of ornamenting silver vessels with relief was revived; and this type of work, elaborated in the Hellenistic Age and particularly at Antioch and Alexandria, remained the usual mode of decoration for silver articles until the end of the Roman Empire.
The usual mode of operation for f is to solve the "forward problem" of determining the tissue concentration given a known external dose: C T = f (C D).
This is a rare, perhaps parodying transgression from a character whose usual mode is dithering.
