Example sentences of "[pron] is commonly [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can no longer assume that the only proper music in church is that which is commonly called ‘ traditional ’ . |
| 2 | As we have seen , during the years from about 1080 to 1095 , Anselm had given much thought to the problem of liberty , and had reached a definition of free will which left no room for that freedom of choice which is commonly regarded as its essential feature . |
| 3 | We did not study anal basal pressure , which is commonly believed to play a significant part in preserving faecal continence for liquids . |
| 4 | It is this sort of criminal behaviour which is commonly seen as characteristic of ( if not central to ) mass , urban society . |
| 5 | In our own tests we found that the Grizzled Skipper with 512K RAM fitted showed little speed advantage over a Super VGA card with 1MB RAM which is commonly fitted in many high-end machines . |
| 6 | As finch ( 1989 ) describes , it is commonly asserted that this century has seen the demise of the extended family structure which is commonly assumed to have been the norm at previous points in time . |
| 7 | There is an additional prediction about the relationship between arousal and memory which is commonly made from Easterbrook 's hypothesis . |
| 8 | The Directive , which is commonly referred to as the ‘ Seveso ’ Directive , was issued in June 1982 and in the UK its requirements were embodied in the Control of Major Accident Hazard ( CIMAH ) Regulations ( 1984 ) . |
| 9 | Maybe they do think of themselves as being professional in the same , or similar , sense to that which is commonly understood . |
| 10 | ( E ) to the amplitude of the population spike ( S ) which is commonly observed following a tetanus . |
| 11 | The simplest form which is commonly considered has two layers of nodes . |
| 12 | Dr David Abramovich , a consultant gynaecologist working closely with the TSSIS , says : ‘ It is caused by a bacteria which is commonly found on the skin , or in the nose , armpit , groin or vagina of about one third of the population without causing any harmful effect . |
| 13 | Certain plants have Gaelic names which assign particular qualities to them , such as ‘ the beer plant ’ , which is commonly known as hop(s) ( Humulus lupulus ) . |
| 14 | The scheme , which is commonly known as SERPS ( or State Earnings-Related Pension Scheme ) started in 1978 . |
| 15 | But to repay the loan , you pay monthly contributions to a Personal Equity Plan which is commonly known as a PEP . |
| 16 | This method , which is commonly known as staged search , does affect the admissibility of the algorithm . |
| 17 | This figure is multiplied by a number of years ' purchase , which is commonly known as the multiplier . |
| 18 | Er one potassium channel which is commonly worked on is known as the delayed rectifier . |
| 19 | Next in line is the Victorian era , which is commonly remembered as harbouring some kind of gold standard of untarnished moral worth . |
| 20 | Its criteria of a subject 's effectiveness , for instance , are generally success at prestigious work , which is commonly associated with masculinity , and success in personal relationships , particularly long-term heterosexual and parental relationships , which is associated with femininity . |
| 21 | Modern science , which is commonly held to have been given its philosophical base by Descartes , has nearly always presupposed precisely this kind of dualistic contrast between objective matter and introspective mind . |
| 22 | Modern instrumentalists elaborate Kautskly 's proposition that the capitalist class rules but does not itself govern , contenting itself with ruling successive governments , a claim which is commonly elaborated through a point-by-point critique of pluralism . |
| 23 | First , there is one argument which is commonly used in this context , but which seems to me mistaken . |
| 24 | Ploughing , which is commonly used to prepare upland sites for afforestation , results not only in the drying out of soils and peats , but also in nutrient losses which are in excess of those occurring in undisturbed habitats . |
| 25 | The most interesting element in this analysis is , however , the complex nature of the mechanisms themselves , whose twists and cycles are able to capture a sense of dynamic interaction in a manner which may escape that vulgarized version of the dialectic which is commonly used to represent processes of this kind . |
| 26 | The founder of the theory of scales which is commonly used as the basis for social measurement is the psychologist S.S. Stevens , whose ideas began to crystallise in the 1940s in response to a challenge issued , in 1932 , by physicists and psychologists of the British Association for the Advancement of Science to " assess the possibility of " " quantitative estimates of sensory events " " . |
| 27 | The group itself is commonly adopted as the " Higher Power " ( Group of Drunks 0.0 . |
| 28 | Money itself is commonly blamed for unpleasantness in human character , attitudes and behaviour . |
| 29 | Only one is commonly noticed , the silverfish that glides smoothly across cellar floors or is occasionally discovered making a meal of the dried glue in the bindings of books . |
| 30 | But the prohibition in the Act is so complete that it is commonly ignored . |