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We once ate in a restaurant in Paris which did a pudding list which was as exciting as the main courses, but as a rule, it's dullsville.
Action thrillers contain lots of twists and turns as a rule, usually of a kind we have all seen a dozen times before.
Once a week, as a rule, usually on Sunday, a ship's company was ordered to assemble into their divisions.
Ellen had always taken a direct approach with her brother, and as a rule there were no secrets between them.
Flow can vary along a lotic stretch, but as a rule, maximum velocity is midstream near the surface.
Cybercafes, as a rule, exercise as much a magical power over schoolchildren as mah-jong over adults.
The beccafico, however, is not as a rule artificially fattened, and on this account was preferred by some sensitive tastes to the ortolan.
But as a rule these assets exist in the shape of things or rights and not in the shape of money.
This is the reason why they develop, as a rule, systems of mathematical models and computational problems.
The Udmurt language is taught in Udmurtia, as a rule, only in primary classes of rural schools.
Tulips, as a rule, do not naturalize well, and most species are therefore planted annually.
However, as a rule of thumb, unsecured loans are more expensive than a secured loan or a mortgage.
They were, as a rule, too immature and unsophisticated to comprehend the full meaning of much of his discourse.
This is true, as a rule, of measles, scarlet fever, whooping-cough, small-pox, and varioloid.
Constructivists, as a rule, cannot subscribe to positivist conceptions of causality.
I don't really do breakfast as a rule, maybe grab a packet of crisps or a biscuit or something on my way to the bus stop.
What stymies the people in poor countries, as a rule, is not a lack of aid.
After all death is not a comfortable venture, it is not painless as a rule which is why animals avoid it so much.
I applaud Hollywood's efforts at cinematizing the Marvel pantheon, but I must say they have, as a rule, left me cold.
Did this drift so impress his youthful sensibility that he codified it as a rule of grammar?
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The only drawback is that the cheapest deals are using charter flights or indirect routings which are less comfortable as a rule.
And, as a rule, the committees meet in Brussels to prepare the business of the plenaries.
Avoid over plucking the eyebrows, only take stray hairs from below the brow line as a rule or get them done professionally.
Do academics as a rule occupy a greater square footage than, say, solicitors or accountants?
And as a rule in public health, you do not immunize against something for which there is no definable risk.
British people, as a rule, still disapprove of loud or demonstrative behaviour, except in very informal situations.
Where the man has a hood the woman has, as a rule, a head-veil and wimple or gorget.
We may still, as a rule, like to believe in marriage, but the reality is that we are increasingly choosing not to enact that belief.
Players will not be long enough at any one club to qualify for benefit as a rule.
Second, as a rule of thumb, our advisories are generally about very serious problems.
The Malabar forms are closely affined to Malay types as a rule, although some are peculiar.
I've heard it said many times, and been long enough on this earth to know it for a fact, that marriage, as a rule, changes women more than men.
I suppose I forgot to mention it, but as a rule we don't allow renegades to partake in raids on the houses they used to belong to.
Policeman can lose sight of you as you drive through their roadblock, and criminals on foot don't actually come looking for you as a rule.
As I've said above, I've been surprised to learn how poorly paid title designers are as a rule.
The landscapes, as a rule, were depicted as unpeopled, pristine environments.
Generally, as a rule, it is best to take your herb tea one hour before eating, on an empty stomach.
Young people, as a rule, prefer novelty to conventions, breaking fresh ground to following the beaten track.
Harpist and zitherists as a rule only use the thumb and three fingers.
Most men wear pleated trousers, which as a rule, should always have cuffs.
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People in the U.S. may be complacent to a degree when it comes to their entertainment, but as a rule they don't take kindly to corporate Goliaths picking on the little guy.
Career opportunities are closely linked with the promotion to a higher rank which officers receive as a rule when appointed to higher job assignments.
The half-vertebra is, as a rule, ankylosed to adjacent vertebrae.
Although tender and swollen gums could cause your baby's temperature to be a little higher than normal, teething, as a rule, does not cause high fever or diarrhea.
Also, as a rule for settling trade disputes in the field of agrobiology, application of various WTO agreements is emerging as an important challenge for the global community.
Luther's reform movement, however, usually did not as a rule abrogate the ecclesiastic office of Bishop.
In this case it contents itself, as a rule, with penance voluntarily assumed.
The result was a string of decisions that further established riparianism as a rule of law.
And Theotropism is saner than Satanophobia or Gehennaphobia as a rule of life and conduct.
Tendon-reflexes, as a rule, remain intact, except the Achillean one, which is frequently either absent or lowered.
And when we get there, we don't send a postcard home, as a rule, preferring the convenience of sending a picture message instead.
This they do, as a rule, by exposing the child or throwing it into the sea.
A total stranger, cannot as a rule, gate crash a purely private party, though cases do exist when this has been done.
Occam's Razor serves as a rule of thumb for choosing the most desirable amongst a group of equally explanatory hypotheses.
It was admitted that the incubation period was, as a rule, a comparatively short one, namely, of some three or four days.
Tundra climates as a rule are hostile to woody vegetation even where the winters are comparatively mild by polar standards, as in Iceland.
These folk artifacts continue to be passed along informally, as a rule anonymously and always in multiple variants.
Caterpillars as a rule are voracious feeders and many of them are among the most serious of agricultural pests.
The ISPs do not, as a rule, provide a hyperlinking service to their customers.
Home cold blue won't look as good as a KG finish or rust blue, but cold blue kits are less than a double sawbuck as a rule.
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These, as a rule, were not adverse to buying a goldbrick as long as they knew that there was a chance for them to dump it on somebody else afterwards with some profit.
British Columbia as a rule has been treated by the culture of Central Canada as somehow exotic and unCanadian, and Alberta as a parochial outback.
Bent was with Lettie when Cotherstone got home, and Cotherstone presently got the two of them into a little snuggery which he kept sacred to himself as a rule.
However, large epi-and mesopelagic fishes, inhabiting the same or bordering niches with lancetfishes are able to evade attack, as a rule, because of their swimming speeds.
The proximal end of bone was as a rule used for the socket of the spearhead, the epiphysis and part of diaphysis were cut off so that medullary cavity formed a socket.
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Mrs. Cripps wished to know if Americans were a religious people, as a rule.
In South Malabar there is not as a rule any procession to the tamarind tree.
Accented syllables are as a rule placed in the arsis, as are also second parts of compounds.
In order to have a locus standi, an opponent must, as a rule, show that the bill may affect his property or business.
Very few people are, as a rule, in Paris, and these are not tempted to loiter.
Upon the anatomical structure of the arteries depends, as a rule, the character and extent of the arteriosclerotic lesions.
Another point of interest in von Richthofen's fighting methods is that he states, that as a rule, he opens fire at 50 yards.
The early submarines had as a rule only one torpedo tube and were incapable of carrying more than two or three torpedoes.
In the agro Romano, or zone immediately around Rome, land is as a rule left for pasturage.
The banks of the Ubangi descend as a rule, sheer into deep water and are often indeed miniature cliffs.
These people vary much throughout the country, but as a rule they are unaggressive and harmless.
Helomata of the miliary variety, usually appear on the sole of the foot and are, as a rule, as numerous as they are small.
On the whole, I must say, we were not favorably impressed with ute life, as a rule.
Long before this, as a rule, the navel has to the child been an object of curiosity.
They consist as a rule of but few segments to most of which a pair of nephridia belong.
The nitrogenous foods, with the exception of milk, are as a rule eliminated from the nephritic diet.
The Frue vanner will, as a rule, act well when the pulp is sufficiently fine.
The venders at these open sales are always women, and as a rule are clean and comely.
In wounds of the portions of the viscus not clad in peritoneum, as a rule, a very different prognosis obtains.
There is no puffiness beneath the eyes, no polyuria, and no nycturia as a rule.
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The only advantage of yellowish teeth rests in the fact that their dentine is, as a rule, stronger.
But for the real student of osteology the separated bones, as a rule, are far more valuable than those which are connected.
Boxes in which whetter used to carry ice for domestic requirements were as a rule short-lived.
The grape, as a rule, withstands drought very well, several species growing wild on the desert's edge.
It is only the oriole and the wood pewee that, as a rule, go higher than this.
They fed, as a rule, on crustaceans, although in one bird were found parts of a Gadus Saida about 70 mm.
The paretic has defects of memory, but he is, as a rule, quite unconscious of them.
It troubled him because he had not much difficulty in salving his conscience as a rule.
Rivers, as a rule, are held to be bad boundaries, and the Salween is no exception.
He is so bright and intelligent, as a rule, that you wonder why he is so phenomenally vulgar.
The Samoyed shamans are, as a rule, the most intelligent and cunning of the whole race.
The plantlets should be removed from these highest temperatures, as a rule, as soon as germination is completed.
The Kotas as a rule have only one wife, and polyandry is unknown among them.
As has been mentioned before, it does not as a rule attend the precursory symptoms.
The presternum is as a rule small and compressed, often much keeled, especially in the horse and tapir.
The quadruplex has not as a rule the same working efficiency that four separate wires have.
For, as a rule, the nearer the flower to the tip of the raceme in the pear, the shorter the stem on the fruit.
A radiogram shows a shadow in the muscle, attached at one part as a rule to the coronoid process.
Some parasites are able to lead a saprophytic existence also, but as a rule they live at the expense of animal or plant life.
The good American is, as a rule, pretty hard upon roguery, but he atones for his austerity by an amiable toleration of rogues.
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The greasy surface of the skin as a rule comes from the sebaceous glands, as previously described.
They are, as a rule, domesticated individuals, with a pretty turn for mixing a salad.
The relative pronoun should come, as a rule, immediately after its antecedent.
A dumbwaiter is like a little elevator, except that, as a rule, no one rides in it.
Neither in itself nor in its preamble was there an averment, or even an assumption of its necessity, as a rule of guidance.
They are, as a rule, averse to innovation, especially when it involves expenditure.
Heneage, as a rule, was one of the most deliberate and even-tempered of men.
Upon its subsidence the exanthem of the disease as a rule promptly appears.
The stature is rather below the average, but there are tall individuals, who as a rule resemble the Aymara type.
Also in the cases of coma with anasarca, either the acute, subacute or chronic form the blood pressure is not raised as a rule.
The area of hepatic dulness is, as a rule, enlarged in cases of fatty liver.
The dream, as a rule, merely furnishes the starting-point for free association.
The Egyptian anthemion, derived from plants emerging from the water, has as a rule no connecting strand.
On the other hand, the discovery of a glycosuria without these symptoms is, as a rule, accidental.
The furca is, as a rule, a powerful motor-organ, and has its laminae edged with strong teeth or setae or both.
As a matter of fact, words are, as a rule, the shallowest portion of all the argument.
They are brought from shanghai, and, as a rule, they languish and die in a few months.
The detective, as a rule, should not make an arrest under any circumstances until after the shoplifter has left the store.
In the Amphibian skull there are as a rule far fewer bones than in the skull of bony fish.
I knew that, as a rule, mountain lions do not follow you unless they are ravenous with hunger or smell blood.
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They would, therefore, measure as accurately as a rule of boxwood or ivory.
It is met with, as a rule, in association with the vesicular and bullous varieties of the disease.
She often began to feed herself when urged, but would not finish, and had to be spoon-fed, as a rule.
This is one of the reasons why the square piano does not, as a rule, admit of as fine tuning as the upright.
On the other hand, in the ileum inflammatory lesions were present as a rule.
It was his charwoman, who, as a rule, came only for two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening.
The stress-accent of classical Sanskrit has as a rule been preserved throughout.
Therefore, we believe that stop-loss orders are a bad thing and, as a rule, do not recommend them.
These organs retain their normal bilaterality, but the body is, as a rule, inequilateral.
It has no suborbital glands or lachrymal fossae, which are as a rule present in the Sheep and absent from the Goats.
It is due to defective development of the embryo and is as a rule found in association with cleft palate.
The pottery of the Iroquoian and Algonkian tribes of the north-east was, as a rule, rather crude and undeveloped.
The cough is not painful, as a rule, in the chronic diseases of the respiratory tract.
Which alone was enough to distinguish Bennie, for Juvenile court children, as a rule, are distinctly not kissable.
The things we lack are more vivid to us, as a rule, than those we have acquired.
Their homes will, as a rule, for sheer uncleanliness, bear comparison with the dwelling of an Australian aborigine.
The few boarding houses were crowded, and with an uncongenial lot as a rule.
However, as a rule her conversation was made up of racy tale about the privacies of the chief families of the town, and Tom enjoyed this.
There is also, as a rule, rather pronounced hypertrophy of the adventitia.
Science, as a rule, has avoided the subject of spiritualism.
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My experience and observation have convinced me that persistent asking outright for money from the rich does not, as a rule, secure help.
It won't be much, but then articled clerks as a rule get nothing.
The bardic poems are naturally, as a rule, of a lyric nature.
Providence, as a rule, doesn't go out gunning with black powder.
The bowels are, as a rule, constipated, but occasionally relaxed.
The body is, as a rule, situated near the edge of the corpuscle.
We have done our best for him, and as a rule he creditably responds.
A cur dog, as a rule, can drive the largest wolf on the plains.
The decencies of debate are, as a rule, religiously observed.
The trees are deciduous, and, as a rule, are not much troubled with pests.
Soft boiled and scrambled eggs are quite safe to give, as a rule.
Instinct, as a rule, is very rough and ready, able to achieve its result under ordinary circumstances, but easily misled by anything unusual.
It is developed, as a rule, from the erythematous or papular type.
For Grumpy was careful, as a rule, to visit the farmyard only after dark.
The direct blues as a rule have a good degree of fastness to light.
I kept quiet because the boat was full-up, and as a rule I hate scenes.
In fact, our only visitors were business callers, and as a rule these came but to wrangle, to argue, and to raise a disturbance.
My acquaintance does not as a rule extend to the home office.
But, as a rule, very high temperatures induce a spindling growth.
They pass by delivery, and are as a rule exempt from stamp duty.
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Lastly, the British press has maintained, as a rule, its impersonality.
Italian composers, as a rule, pay little attention to instrumentation.
This might have wounded a more sensitive nature, but Biggs's boys are not, as a rule, touchy.
The cases given, as a rule, are mere instances of superannuation.
You don't, I mean, as a rule, get it all so superlatively together.
To these faculties, as a rule, his supraliminal self could get no access.
But as a rule the ordinary avenues were open only to the landowning class.
The tensile strength of wood is least affected by drying, as a rule.
The prognosis of fracture of the tibia, as a rule, must be unfavorable.
The mestiza girls are, as a rule, often of wonderful beauty.
The officers dress better, as a rule, than in West Virginia.
The politicians, as a rule, are not overzealous for your success.
The Dutch samplers might, as a rule, be described as patchy.
The pelvic girdle is in Teleostomes completely absent as a rule.
I ain't partic'lar as a rule, and I don't take no blame for settling his hash, but I don't reckon him ornamental now, do you?
They inhabit open woods as a rule, often roosting at night in swamps.
Gliders as a rule have only one rudder, and this is in the rear.
It was surrounded on all sides by a flower garden, and the family sat, as a rule, on the open verandah as at the prince's house.
In his opinion, there was nothing like the spectacle of a criminal process for dissipating melancholy, so exhilaratingly stupid are judges as a rule.
An end, on the contrary, is that which itself naturally follows some other thing, either by necessity, or as a rule, but has nothing following it.
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All this was taken very much for granted, as a rule, but now and then some supersensitive person made violent objections to it, as a theory of life.
They and the women, as a rule, wore a coarse tow-linen robe that came well below the knee, and a rude sort of sandal, and many wore an iron collar.
Authors, as a rule, attempt to select and portray types rarely met with in their entirety, but these types are nevertheless more real than real life itself.
