Example sentences of "it [is] commonly " in BNC.

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31 It is commonly found in texts designed for use in teaching reading , as one means of freeing the beginner from problems connected with syntax .
32 This is a very popular instruction , since it allows counting without disturbing an accumulator ; it is commonly made more useful by testing whether the count has reached zero after incrementing , and this is discussed again in the next section .
33 Whatever arguments there may be in favour of the independence of members of assemblies or parliaments , it is hard to see what they have to do with representation as it is commonly understood .
34 A party is not mandated to carry out particular policies in the sense of the term " mandate " used above , and as it is commonly understood .
35 As for the meaning of dependent conditionals , it is possible and perhaps necessary to say of them , as it is commonly said of " if " statements of various kinds , that they are to be taken as primitive , in the sense of not being open to analytical definition or reductive analysis .
36 Syntax ( in the broad sense in which it is commonly used today ) is the level of lexico-grammatical form which mediates between the levels of sound and meaning .
37 In the UK it is commonly agreed that this happens at least in part because of the extent to which farming , relative to industrial , interests are " understood " in most Conservative cabinets ( and even some Labour ones ! ) .
38 It is commonly said in the North East today that more miners ' children are teachers than miners .
39 Thus although it is commonly suggested that the notion of certainty is relevant to the analysis of claims to knowledge , but not to the analysis of knowledge itself ( e.g. , in Woozley , 1953 ) , this leaves us with no method of explaining why certainty should be required before one can claim knowledge when it is not required for knowledge itself , i.e. , for the existence of what one is claiming .
40 Of all Edward 's legislation , three pieces particularly affected the church : the statutes De Viris Religiosis , or Mortmain as it is commonly called , Circumspecte Agatis , and Westminster II , chapter 41 .
41 Thus it is commonly held that services are economic activities whose output is not a physical product .
42 Second , it is commonly the case that what is highlighted or backgrounded is an attribute , or range of attributes , of the entity referred to .
43 This last judgement ( although it is commonly made ) is speculative , of course , as the scribe is normally anonymous , but it is analogous to rejecting live speakers from a random sample on the grounds that they do not speak as we think they ought to speak , or rejecting attested spoken forms on the grounds that they are not what we would expect in some particular location .
44 The large monument is territorially fixed , and , as an assertion of identity , it is commonly the basis of claims to both territory and historical achievement ; for this reason archaeological monuments such as Great Zimbabwe and Masada have particular significance in newly formed countries such as Zimbabwe and Israel .
45 Furthermore , it is commonly met by diverse forms of resistance ( e.g. Hall et al.
46 It is commonly thought that herbs were used chiefly to disguise the flavour of bad meat during the winter when there was no recently slaughtered beef or lamb to be had , or when food in general had started to go off .
47 Although he is free to use this vote in any way that he chooses , it is commonly accepted that he should vote to maintain the status quo .
48 In addition to its use for accompaniment and for playing before and after a service , it is commonly used as a solo instrument during the course of worship .
49 A long tradition associates the organ with Christian worship and it is commonly assumed that every church has one .
50 It is commonly associated with ‘ heavy-rock ’ sounds which include ringing , ‘ buzzy ’ chords , obtrusive rhythmic bite and a harsh , penetrating solo melody line .
51 But the prohibition in the Act is so complete that it is commonly ignored .
52 Furthermore , it is commonly argued that the courts can fail to place a proper actuarial value on potential pension benefits and that ( typically in pursuit of a ‘ clean break ’ ) a divorcing wife 's loss of potential benefits can be ‘ traded off ’ or glossed over against her need for a home .
53 The alkaline denaturation of plasmid DNA is an essential step in plasmid sequencing and it is commonly carried out with 0.2N NaOH at room temperature for 10 minutes ( 3 ) .
54 This gave the BDN , as it is commonly referred to , the chance of reaching a readership beyond the ranks of the BDDA , and the new paper under its editor Kenneth McDougall , the BDDA 's Chairman , took full advantage of this opportunity .
55 In this latter case it is important to realise that we should expect to get true hyphenated justification or H&J as it is commonly known .
56 It is commonly assumed that it is impossible to change this state of affairs , but the Guild of Food Writers believes it can be done , and that it is all-important , even vital , to do so , says Claudia Roden , its vice chairman .
57 Remarkably , it is commonly the sufferer himself or herself who breaks off social relationships and activities because of a feeling of not being properly appreciated or understood .
58 Denial is found in any situation of acute stress and is , for example it is commonly seen in bereavement , redundancy , dismissal , divorce and in major disease or injury .
59 A further reason is that it is commonly found that eighteen months into recovery is a particular period of disillusion and difficulty .
60 It is commonly found that there is an interval of about six months between , firstly , the family member getting into recovery from his or her own " family disease " and learning to practise " tough love " and cease " enabling " the disease to continue by covering up its consequences and , secondly , the primary sufferer coming to seek recovery .
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