Example sentences of "it is not uncommon for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not uncommon for the police magazines to feature this antipathy to the academic , and especially the social science researcher : |
| 2 | As a general rule , Dobermanns usually have good appetites and , therefore , it is not uncommon for them to get fat — a combination of too much food and too little exercise is not good for this breed ! |
| 3 | But other women do help a lot , in fact they have such strong relationships with the child that it is not uncommon for them to be called Big Mother or Small Mother . |
| 4 | Yet it is not uncommon for people who can not get to sleep , or who have woken up , to get up in the middle of the night and to make themselves a snack because they are hungry . |
| 5 | It is not uncommon for people to say , ‘ God willing , I 'll be here tomorrow ’ . |
| 6 | Juan and Pepe , who run the bar , luckily need little sleep and it is not uncommon for revellers returning from the star club at 4.00am to find a bar party in full swing . |
| 7 | It is not uncommon for goods to be carried by road from a European destination through several countries to a port , where they were then loaded on board a ship , taken to another continent and again despatched by road to their final destination . |
| 8 | It is not uncommon for schools on the same campus serving different age ranges to share raffles , prize draws and seasonal fairs . |
| 9 | So enticing is the red gape of a cuckoo nestling that it is not uncommon for ornithologists to see a bird dropping food into the mouth of a baby cuckoo sitting in some other bird 's nest ! |
| 10 | It is not uncommon for tractors to slide into a stream as they attempt to cultivate every last scrap of land beside a watercourse . |
| 11 | For it is not uncommon for each individual client to have a number of complex interrelated problems which may necessitate several bureau visits , thus adding to the ever-expanding workload of the CABx . |
| 12 | It is not uncommon for potentates to be experts as well and , in my experience , it is very important for a researcher to establish goodwill with people who will he helping in a research project . |
| 13 | It is not uncommon for one parent to ‘ use ’ the child 's illness for their own purposes in these domestic problems . |
| 14 | It is not uncommon for a couple who have had the sadness of producing a heavily disabled or diseased baby to find that they later lose their desire for intercourse . |
| 15 | It is not uncommon for the same Commission officials concerned with proposing draft legislation to be responsible for the enforcement of that legislation against member states when it is passed . |
| 16 | It is not uncommon for Bills of great public importance to go to a committee of the whole House . |
| 17 | Elsewhere , however , as has been stated , it is not uncommon for a court to declare invalid a purported act of a legislature on the ground that the legislature in question had no power to pass such an act at all . |
| 18 | We enjoy a full employment economy , and it is not uncommon for folks to have two jobs ; there are few freeloaders here . |
| 19 | There is no such legislation in Britain , but it is not uncommon for the charge to be linked to the retail price index as a form of protection . |
| 20 | It is not uncommon for the carer to fear that they may predecease their partner , who will thus be deserted . |
| 21 | It is not uncommon for people when telling stories about themselves to stress how frightened they were by some experience . |
| 22 | ( In European countries with industry-wide or regional agreements it is not uncommon for a union to represent less than a majority of workers within any given enterprise . ) |
| 23 | In the USA it is not uncommon for the recordings themselves to be broadcast on domestic television or radio in news or current affairs programmes , while in Australia , at the other extreme , the pilot 's union has an agreement that the CVR will not even be examined by official investigators unless the flight crew are killed . |
| 24 | Too many nursing lectures are given by unqualified lecturers , and it is not uncommon for a person chosen to speak on a particular aspect of care to begin the lecture by saying : ‘ I do n't know why I 've been asked to speak , I 've limited experience in this field . ’ |
| 25 | It is not uncommon for a client on the telephone to hear swearing in the background . |
| 26 | It is not uncommon for one licensed dealer to send a spy to work in another . |
| 27 | It is not uncommon for women to have children by several different fathers and men may often be loosely attached to a number of households at the same time . |
| 28 | Women can expect to have between live and eight children as a general rule , and in rural areas it is not uncommon for women to have up to I5 pregnancies . |
| 29 | With nomadic items , it is not uncommon for a rug to be known by both the name of the specific weaving tribe ( or sub-tribe ) and the overall tribal grouping . |
| 30 | The materials , whether wool or silk , are second to none , and it is not uncommon for a mixture of wools from different regions — each noted for specific qualities of softness , springiness of durability — to be employed in better quality items to ensure a perfect blend of all the characteristics necessary to produce the best rug-making material . |