Example sentences of "it was [not/n't] uncommon for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was n't uncommon for us to be putting out a 16-page issue at the end of the 1960s . |
| 2 | It was n't uncommon for adults to exceed four feet in length and yes , they were dangerous . |
| 3 | But it was n't uncommon for clients to stand waiting all night . |
| 4 | It was not uncommon for someone to take a wrong turning and be found wandering three weeks later , cold and hungry . |
| 5 | Terry Eagleton , oddly , dismisses evidence from Daniel Defoe that in the coffee houses of London it was not uncommon for mechanicks to hold forth on issues of the day . |
| 6 | Their marriage was certainly not typical , yet it is possible that even in the early twentieth century it was not uncommon for retired men to take on more responsibility at home , as many do today : for lack of other evidence , we can only speculate . |
| 7 | It was not uncommon for critics at this time to be engaged in character study and reconstructions of plot and chronology . |
| 8 | It was not uncommon for craftsmen to excel in a variety of media . |
| 9 | Until recently it was not uncommon for a librarian in a public or academic library to carry out an annual check of the entire stock in this way . |
| 10 | Until the age restrictions were introduced in secondary schools , it was not uncommon for boys to continue at school as long as it took — even until twenty-two or so . |
| 11 | It was not uncommon for these missioners to refer to their deaf clients as ‘ our poor deaf brethren ’ . |
| 12 | It was not uncommon for German children to be taught in Polish , and there was a principle in Pomerania of bilingual education . |
| 13 | It was not uncommon for stolen animals to be transported along paths and roads for as far as fifty kilometres . |
| 14 | It was not uncommon for interviewees to report that at least one set of parents had been unhappy initially about their plans to marry and this was often connected in some way with disappointment or disapproval over the choice of spouse . |
| 15 | The ability to obtain some patronage during an election contest was often essential to success , for it was not uncommon for every candidate in a crowded field to claim to be a friend of the administration in power . |
| 16 | It was not uncommon for one man to hold land in several different tenures and to combine the roles of tenant and landlord . |
| 17 | Indeed , it was not uncommon for Irish abbots actually to have bishops under their jurisdiction . |
| 18 | French Aubusson and Savonnerie carpets of the 17th and 18th centuries , for example , followed the Baroque and Rococo elegance of the time with their bright colours and floral opulence , and it was not uncommon for 18th-century carpets to echo the ceiling designs of the rooms for which they were made . |
| 19 | Until a generation ago it was not uncommon for a successful parish church organist to be appointed to a cathedral post . |
| 20 | It was not uncommon for men bringing home as small a wage as 18/ to keep back 2/ for themselves . |
| 21 | As Coleman discovered later , it was not uncommon for the Justice Department to leave a case dangling over the head of a former government employee whom it wished to intimidate . |
| 22 | In regard to the first , for example — that kasabat kadis did not normally enter or re-enter the medrese stream-two caveats must be entered , the first of which is that one must explicitly exclude two areas in which movement between kadiliks and medreses was not uncommon : first , the kadiliks and medreses below the level at which the hierarchy began to operate , whose holders received perhaps five , ten or fifteen akce a day ; and second , those at the top of the hierarchy , since it was not uncommon for holders of mevleviyet kadiliks to go back to medrese teaching as a form of either temporary or permanent retirement from service as a kadi or a kazasker . |
| 23 | At one time it was not uncommon for a retailer to display an exemption clause in his premises or include it in a written contract even though that clause was rendered totally ineffective by Act of Parliament . |
| 24 | The abuse of Artemesia has continued till today because as recently as 1977 many of her paintings including Suzannah and the Elders had been attributed to her father ( a painter who was a close friend of Caravaggio since it was not uncommon for a male member of the family or tutor to take credit for any talent shown by a woman under their ’ guidance ’ . |
| 25 | It was not uncommon for foreign representatives in Sweden to be given a quantity of copper , the only Swedish product for which there was a ready international market , which they could sell on their return home . |
| 26 | It was not uncommon for respondents to express their incredulity that any solicitor could give an undertaking the compliance with which lay outside of his or her control . |