Example sentences of "not unusual for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is not unusual for existing permissions or potential new reserves of aggregates to be found in such areas . |
| 2 | However , it is not unusual for existing permissions or potential new reserves of aggregates to be found in such areas . |
| 3 | It was not unusual for young ladies to do nothing at all ; unless they occupied themselves with Berlin woolwork or the making of shell boxes , there was practically nothing genteel to do . |
| 4 | Remember that it is not unusual for strong winds to be associated with high pressure , although strong winds and gales are more frequently encountered in low pressure systems . |
| 5 | It 's not unusual for many women to feel depressed a few days after giving birth . |
| 6 | It 's not unusual for many women to feel depressed a few days after giving birth . |
| 7 | LEFT Firm action needs to be taken towards a young dog which tries to bite , although during the teething phase , it is not unusual for many dogs to attempt to bite at their owner 's hand . |
| 8 | It is not unusual for unaccompanied children to travel as refugees . |
| 9 | Flints containing sponges may be incorporated into younger sediments ( they are then known as derived fossils ) , and it is not unusual for such flints to be dug up in suburban gardens around London — a long journey from the Cretaceous seas . |
| 10 | It is therefore not unusual for junior nurses to feel that it takes them some time to " settle in " on a surgical ward . |
| 11 | Taekwondo places great emphasis , of course , on flying kicks , and it is not unusual for two opponents to be in the air at the same time , one executing an attack and the other an airborne block or counter attack . |
| 12 | It is not unusual for this situation now to be recognised officially , and many authorities have the positions of the leaders included in their Standing Orders , sometimes , for instance , making them ex-officio members of all committees and sub-committees of the Council . |
| 13 | However , this is not unusual for this industry due to the long lead times involved and in fact only represents a recovery to 1988 levels . |
| 14 | Parents often complain that they can only get help or support when they have identified themselves as having a specific problem , and it is not unusual for some families to have several different workers trying to offer support and advice on specific problems which , in reality , are part of a whole situation . |
| 15 | Frost-hardening may affect some tissues but not others ; it is not unusual for well-established tissues to be hardened but for buds and growing shoots to be nipped by frost . |
| 16 | IT IS NOT unusual for scientific predictions to be made long before techniques are available to test them — and it is particularly satisfying when such predictions are at last fulfilled . |
| 17 | In these cities it was not unusual for half the working population to be jobless , while the wages of those in work — including professional footballers — fell . |
| 18 | It is not unusual for Arabic paragraphs to consist of one sentence . |
| 19 | In the case of orthography it is only in comparatively recent times that spelling has been standardised into ‘ correct ’ forms , it being , in former centuries , very much at the whim of the writer as to how a word was spelt , and it was not unusual for several styles — ‘ king ’ , ‘ kyng ’ , ‘ kynge ’ are examples — to be used in the same document , or even sentence . |
| 20 | But this does not indicate that the particular swim where you are catching 3lb to 4lb barbel will only produce fish in that size range , for once that shoal moves out it is not unusual for another shoal to move in , be they bigger or smaller . |
| 21 | Where a company is engaged in more than one kind of business , it is not unusual for significant differences to arise from year to year between the separate segments . |
| 22 | After the Reformation it was not unusual for these charnels to be cleared and taken over by prominent local families as their burial vault , as happened at Saffron Walden and Thaxted , both in Essex . |
| 23 | The tide went out as fast as it came in , and it was not unusual for large fish to be stranded in one of the various sized lakes left behind in the sand hollows . |
| 24 | It was n't unusual for human flesh to be the bait in an industry where million-pound budgets were on offer . |