Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] [art] common " in BNC.

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1 They range from the common but splendid gulls to the truly magnificent gannets ; shags and cormorants , which look very much alike and are fabulous divers ; razorbills , which in my view look more like penguins ; guillemots and of course the famous puffin , which lives mainly on some of the many rugged islands just off shore .
2 if , if , if they go into the Common Market rate , EE standard or summat it 's bloody new job we 'd have to be , got ta go to Blackpool this year
3 They are isomorphic graphs , and they go by a common name : G– .
4 Homology between DRP and dystrophin extends over their entire length , suggesting that they derive from a common ancestral gene .
5 The ‘ ancient pine forests ’ concept is linked to another myth about chemical sensitivity — that patients who are ‘ universal reactors ’ are reacting to all synthetic organic chemicals because they come from a common source .
6 When , in 1594 , John Parker obtained a grant of a new office for keeping pleadings in Chancery , two of the Six Clerks , who had done his work previously , wrote that ‘ the King by his letters patents may not oust the common people of their rights and inheritance which they have in the common law of this land ’ .
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