Example sentences of "[pers pn] be not uncommon for " in BNC.
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1 | It 's not uncommon for ledgers boasting multicompany features to provide only for the consolidation of different company accounts when they all use a common chart of accounts . |
2 | It 's not uncommon for ledgers boasting multicompany features to provide only for the consolidation of different company accounts when they all use a common chart of accounts |
3 | It 's not uncommon for the ankles to swell up — you can relieve this by lying with your feet up ; avoid pop-socks and socks with tight elastic . |
4 | But for people who do suffer head injuries like Mrs Asmoyah , it 's not uncommon for them to suddenly come round a week or even ten days later and be perfectly okay . |
5 | It 's not uncommon for victims of rape to be so traumatized by the attack that they delay , or in some cases never report the matter to police . |
6 | ‘ And it 's not uncommon for them to blame each other , as they get older , for taking the decision not to have a family . ’ |
7 | ‘ And it 's not uncommon for them to blame each other , as they get older , for taking the decision not to have a family . ’ |
8 | It is not uncommon for the police magazines to feature this antipathy to the academic , and especially the social science researcher : |
9 | As a general rule , Dobermanns usually have good appetites and , therefore , it is not uncommon for them to get fat — a combination of too much food and too little exercise is not good for this breed ! |
10 | But other women do help a lot , in fact they have such strong relationships with the child that it is not uncommon for them to be called Big Mother or Small Mother . |
11 | Yet it is not uncommon for people who can not get to sleep , or who have woken up , to get up in the middle of the night and to make themselves a snack because they are hungry . |
12 | It is not uncommon for people to say , ‘ God willing , I 'll be here tomorrow ’ . |
13 | Juan and Pepe , who run the bar , luckily need little sleep and it is not uncommon for revellers returning from the star club at 4.00am to find a bar party in full swing . |
14 | It is not uncommon for goods to be carried by road from a European destination through several countries to a port , where they were then loaded on board a ship , taken to another continent and again despatched by road to their final destination . |
15 | It is not uncommon for schools on the same campus serving different age ranges to share raffles , prize draws and seasonal fairs . |
16 | So enticing is the red gape of a cuckoo nestling that it is not uncommon for ornithologists to see a bird dropping food into the mouth of a baby cuckoo sitting in some other bird 's nest ! |
17 | It is not uncommon for tractors to slide into a stream as they attempt to cultivate every last scrap of land beside a watercourse . |
18 | For it is not uncommon for each individual client to have a number of complex interrelated problems which may necessitate several bureau visits , thus adding to the ever-expanding workload of the CABx . |
19 | It is not uncommon for potentates to be experts as well and , in my experience , it is very important for a researcher to establish goodwill with people who will he helping in a research project . |
20 | It is not uncommon for one parent to ‘ use ’ the child 's illness for their own purposes in these domestic problems . |
21 | It is not uncommon for a couple who have had the sadness of producing a heavily disabled or diseased baby to find that they later lose their desire for intercourse . |
22 | It is not uncommon for the same Commission officials concerned with proposing draft legislation to be responsible for the enforcement of that legislation against member states when it is passed . |
23 | It is not uncommon for Bills of great public importance to go to a committee of the whole House . |
24 | Elsewhere , however , as has been stated , it is not uncommon for a court to declare invalid a purported act of a legislature on the ground that the legislature in question had no power to pass such an act at all . |
25 | We enjoy a full employment economy , and it is not uncommon for folks to have two jobs ; there are few freeloaders here . |
26 | There is no such legislation in Britain , but it is not uncommon for the charge to be linked to the retail price index as a form of protection . |
27 | It is not uncommon for the carer to fear that they may predecease their partner , who will thus be deserted . |
28 | It is not uncommon for people when telling stories about themselves to stress how frightened they were by some experience . |
29 | ( In European countries with industry-wide or regional agreements it is not uncommon for a union to represent less than a majority of workers within any given enterprise . ) |
30 | In the USA it is not uncommon for the recordings themselves to be broadcast on domestic television or radio in news or current affairs programmes , while in Australia , at the other extreme , the pilot 's union has an agreement that the CVR will not even be examined by official investigators unless the flight crew are killed . |