Sentence examples for have been usual from inspiring English sources

That would have been usual, and I didn't want to be usual.

Those who confessed to a crime that previously had been unknown to the authorities were typically exempt from punishment or at least given a sentence considerably reduced from what would have been usual for such a crime.

"It would have been usual for an employee in Terry's position to have been suspended pending the investigation," Tom Flanagan, head of employment law at the national law firm Irwin Mitchell, says.

While the absence of a choral instrument may have put more pressure on Mr. Rollins to play harder and fill up more space with harmony, he had time to rest: there were much longer solos by other band members than have been usual over the last decade.

It would have been usual practice to remove some of the guns in order to create more space for distinguished guests, and it is likely that this had been done.

An alternative control would have been usual care.

So far, no video of Mr. Adnan, an Iraqi, has been released, as has been usual when foreigners are kidnapped.

From its beginnings the Southern Baptist Convention was a more centralized denominational organization than had been usual among the Baptists.

The revenue number, as has been usual in recent years, was helped along by ticket price inflation.

But the embodiment of such ideas here is far more incisive, more vehement and, indeed, louder than has been usual for Mr. Sciarrino.

It had been usual before he was appointed for the president to have a circle of close advisers, each in an important-sounding job and each competing for his ear.