Example sentences of "common [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This discussion will be even more urgent if it becomes common for criminal proceedings to arise from road traffic accidents . |
| 2 | It is very common for new students to give up after about three months . |
| 3 | You can buy packs which you complete manually with exact timings taken from a digital clock , but it is more common for standard pads to be completed operating on a six-minute unit . |
| 4 | Only in the vast wastes of Kislev is it still common for entire villages to be raided and destroyed by marauding wolf packs , and for children to be stolen away or herds of domestic animals to be destroyed in a single night . |
| 5 | It was common for Western Christians of the Middle Ages to see these two friends of Jesus as the first exponents of the active and contemplative life respectively . |
| 6 | Corporate Finance engagement letter ( ‘ CFEL ’ ) -most common for MAS assignments |
| 7 | The most common for solid walls is the wall anchor , similar in principle to the wall plug , but utilising its own heavy-duty machine screw and requiring a much larger hole to be drilled in the wall ( typically 10mm compared with 6mm for most normal wall plugs ) . |
| 8 | And was it common for riveting squads to accumulate out of families ? |
| 9 | It is quite common for male birds to mate with several females ( technically known as polygyny , meaning many females ) . |
| 10 | Dunning and his co-workers are undoubtedly justified in maintaining that football hooliganism was prevalent in society long before the post-war decline of community life ; and that it was common for young males to attend football matches without adult supervision before the 1960s . |
| 11 | It 's fairly common for young babies who are long-sighted at six months , for example , to have normal vision by the time they 're four . |
| 12 | In other jurisdictions , it is common for multi-disciplinary teams to be established . |
| 13 | By the late eighteenth century it was increasingly common for rural parishes to remit payments to their poor who had become temporarily chargeable elsewhere , rather than have them delivered back . |
| 14 | Prostitution is widespread , an integral part of a highly poverty-ridden and machista society , where it is common for adolescent boys to be taken by relatives to a brothel for their sexual initiation . |
| 15 | With regard to the board itself , its ‘ group dynamics ’ are likely to inhibit the instigation of disciplinary action against insiders : it is common for personal relationships between the directors and other senior managers to be such that they will stand together as a team and only consider removing one of their number in situations of obvious incapacity or wrong-doing . |
| 16 | It is also quite common for theoretical predictions to go untested for want of appropriate experimental methods . |
| 17 | At one time it was common for French soldiers to leave their wives with dildos ( artificial penises ) when they marched off to war , to reduce the risk of adultery while they were away . |
| 18 | They can choose to insist on state ownership , as is common for public utilities , post and telecoms . |
| 19 | It was only in the tenth and eleventh centuries that it became normal or common for giant churches to be built . |
| 20 | Major financiers and industrialists , notably those in St Petersburg , were made acutely conscious of their dependence on ministerial goodwill and it became increasingly common for senior officials to take up directorships on the boards of leading companies . |
| 21 | Syllabic is most common after alveolar plosives and fricatives ; in the case of and followed by the plosive is nasally released by lowering the soft palate , so that in the word ‘ eaten ’ , for example , the tongue does not move in the sequence but the soft palate is lowered at the end of so that compressed air escapes through the nose . |
| 22 | Few limb bones were complete , but distal humeri and tibiae , proximal ulnae and fragmentary mandibles were most common after isolated teeth . |
| 23 | This oldest and most common of Western fruits — grown since before the first word was written — now wants to be considered a speciality . |
| 24 | Genetic screening inspects workers before exposure to seek out inherited traits such as sickle-cell , a defect in blood cells that was the most common of genetic signposts the companies looked for . |
| 25 | It is particularly common amongst ex-judo players , and may be caused by an awkward fall . |
| 26 | I understand that this was pretty common , quite common throughout British Railways , it took a few years to knit together you know , the nationalization and the fact that we were just the same railway after that . |
| 27 | This kind of accident is relatively common with inexperienced pilots , especially when they are flying in competitions . |
| 28 | It is more common with female servants and younger children but far from unknown with older kids like Kaptan . |
| 29 | And so quite a big job has been cutting reeds back around the islands and the banks , and also we 've had what they call blooms of blanketweed , not so much recently but , apparently it 's more common with new ponds and I had a tremendous bloom of blanketweed the first year after I made it . |
| 30 | We believe this situation is relatively common with small businesses . |