Example sentences of "common for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This discussion will be even more urgent if it becomes common for criminal proceedings to arise from road traffic accidents . |
| 2 | Rents linked to the tenant 's turnover have been common for many years , particularly in mining leases . |
| 3 | Here as in other regions the system of ploughed riggs , or ridges , and strip cultivation in fields shared by different families was common for many centuries . |
| 4 | It is very common for new students to give up after about three months . |
| 5 | You can buy packs which you complete manually with exact timings taken from a digital clock , but it is more common for standard pads to be completed operating on a six-minute unit . |
| 6 | It was found that is most common for two strategies to be used when evaluating the target person . |
| 7 | It appears that in electrical repairs ) , it is common for two prices to be quoted . |
| 8 | Only in the vast wastes of Kislev is it still common for entire villages to be raided and destroyed by marauding wolf packs , and for children to be stolen away or herds of domestic animals to be destroyed in a single night . |
| 9 | It was common for Western Christians of the Middle Ages to see these two friends of Jesus as the first exponents of the active and contemplative life respectively . |
| 10 | Corporate Finance engagement letter ( ‘ CFEL ’ ) -most common for MAS assignments |
| 11 | The most common for solid walls is the wall anchor , similar in principle to the wall plug , but utilising its own heavy-duty machine screw and requiring a much larger hole to be drilled in the wall ( typically 10mm compared with 6mm for most normal wall plugs ) . |
| 12 | And was it common for riveting squads to accumulate out of families ? |
| 13 | It is quite common for male birds to mate with several females ( technically known as polygyny , meaning many females ) . |
| 14 | Dunning and his co-workers are undoubtedly justified in maintaining that football hooliganism was prevalent in society long before the post-war decline of community life ; and that it was common for young males to attend football matches without adult supervision before the 1960s . |
| 15 | It 's fairly common for young babies who are long-sighted at six months , for example , to have normal vision by the time they 're four . |
| 16 | In other jurisdictions , it is common for multi-disciplinary teams to be established . |
| 17 | By the late eighteenth century it was increasingly common for rural parishes to remit payments to their poor who had become temporarily chargeable elsewhere , rather than have them delivered back . |
| 18 | Prostitution is widespread , an integral part of a highly poverty-ridden and machista society , where it is common for adolescent boys to be taken by relatives to a brothel for their sexual initiation . |
| 19 | With regard to the board itself , its ‘ group dynamics ’ are likely to inhibit the instigation of disciplinary action against insiders : it is common for personal relationships between the directors and other senior managers to be such that they will stand together as a team and only consider removing one of their number in situations of obvious incapacity or wrong-doing . |
| 20 | It is also quite common for theoretical predictions to go untested for want of appropriate experimental methods . |
| 21 | It is common for some mothers to ask their child to do something and then walk away expecting it to be done . |
| 22 | It is common for these perforations in the broad surfaces of church external walls to be small . |
| 23 | It quite common for these hordes of penniless zealots to band together under the leadership of some ranting madman , a preacher of apocalyptic doom . |
| 24 | Fifteen thousand revellers squeezed onto the Castlemorton common for last weekends festival , many have now left . |
| 25 | At one time it was common for French soldiers to leave their wives with dildos ( artificial penises ) when they marched off to war , to reduce the risk of adultery while they were away . |
| 26 | It is now much more common for both partners in the marriage to be employed , and therefore for both to be members of pension schemes , than when the design of most schemes was undertaken . |
| 27 | ( In relation to the last point the authors demonstrate that universities which have a large proportion of their students in halls of residence tend to have lower non-completion rates , and that this finding is common for both sexes . |
| 28 | They can choose to insist on state ownership , as is common for public utilities , post and telecoms . |
| 29 | It was only in the tenth and eleventh centuries that it became normal or common for giant churches to be built . |
| 30 | Major financiers and industrialists , notably those in St Petersburg , were made acutely conscious of their dependence on ministerial goodwill and it became increasingly common for senior officials to take up directorships on the boards of leading companies . |