Example sentences of "are commonly [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no escaping the fact that a trade union will , in pursuit of its purposes as they are commonly understood , have its own corporate policies ; and that the authority of members of a trade union appointed in that capacity to boards of directors of joint stock companies will derive from the trade union . |
| 2 | Given that industrial democracy , defined as the ultimate right and duty of the men and women working in an industrial enterprise to call management to account for its performance , and , if that performance does not satisfy them , to replace management , is desirable in principle and as a means of making the efficient conduct of the enterprise their natural concern ; recognising that the rights of use attaching to ownership , whether in the private or public sector , are inalienable ; recognising the value in general of competition as a means of keeping production and provision sensitive to public needs and tastes , and as a means of relating the distribution of resources to them ; to consider ( i ) in what sort of industrial organisation would industrial democracy be feasible ; ( ii ) how far and in what circumstances would the adoption of such a form of organisation be feasible ; ( iii ) by what means should its adoption be promoted and how long would it take to establish it as a characteristic feature in the industrial scene ; ( iv ) what part should trade unions play in its promotion and adoption and what changes would that part require in their functions as they are commonly understood ; and ( v ) where in the case of a particular industry , or organisation , the general interest requires that accountability should be to the public at large , considered for example as consumers or users of goods produced or beneficiaries from services provided , what compensatory measures should be introduced so as to make good as far as possible the permanent denial to employees of a right which is in principle generally desirable ? |
| 3 | We have identified difficulties which may be encountered in realising that a problem has a legal dimension and in connecting that problem to the sort of work with which lawyers are commonly understood to deal . |
| 4 | Thus , whereas pairs such as sat/set , can't/Kent are commonly realized with the same , or very similar , low-front short vowel , the pairs sand/send , bad/bed have markedly different vowels , /a/ being long low-back and /Ε/; long mid-front in such pairs . |
| 5 | The boards and commissions that run these organizations are commonly appointed by ministers and so provide an increase in ministerial patronage . |
| 6 | Financial : Paying for the consequences of the addictive disease of the primary sufferer can be exceedingly expensive and families may even be much more willing to pay Court fines than to pay towards the costs of treatment — The disgrace and deprivation of prison are commonly felt to be consequences that are best avoided whereas they may in fact be the crucial turning point that bring the primary sufferer and the family member into full realisation of the seriousness of addictive disease and the need to seek recovery . |
| 7 | Sometimes the lobes , as the divisions are called , are so intricately re-divided that they are commonly compared to fine lace . |
| 8 | By any stretch of the imagination , economically inactive lone parents as a group are at least as disadvantaged as those in social classes IV and V , who are commonly contrasted with their more privileged counterparts in classes I and II . |
| 9 | Most of these species of wrasse are commonly seen by divers in shallow coastal waters . |
| 10 | While course outlines , statements of course objectives etc are commonly prepared by college libraries , they are rarely documented in university and polytechnic libraries . |
| 11 | It is not possible here to say more about the different types of trust which are commonly created at the present time , nor of the powers and duties of the trustees , nor of the methods of administration . |
| 12 | Bus drivers and conductors resting between journeys are an obvious target for quota samples and are commonly overrepresented as an occupation in such samples . |
| 13 | Historically , what has come to be known as the Third World has attracted only a tiny proportion of all the foreign investment that has taken place , while the economies of many poor countries , and even some rich ones , are commonly said to be dominated by foreign capital and/or foreign firms . |
| 14 | Lorry engines like the Cummins are commonly fitted with a 24v electrical system to allow a bigger starter and battery to be used . |
| 15 | The Reaver Knights are commonly made up of the wildest and most headstrong sons of the noble houses . |
| 16 | A good social ‘ mix ’ is sought among British students and offers are commonly made to applicants both from the EEC countries and other parts of the world . |
| 17 | Yeah , they 're amusing and those sort of things and obviously they 're deliberately wrong , but have a look and see why , what is it because they do contain errors that are commonly made day after day in courts . |
| 18 | Apart from the precious metals of gold , silver and platinum , which are used mostly in jewellery , there are seven base metals that are commonly employed in the making of coins and artefacts . |
| 19 | Such claims about our ordinary beliefs are commonly depended on in asserting Free Will , which is to say indeterminist accounts of decision and action . |
| 20 | These criticisms are commonly voiced by those who have some political or academic axe to grind and who are , or think that they are , the blessed recipients of some God-given intuition which enables them to divine the actual mind of Parliament , no matter how obscure or equivocal the language in which it has chosen to express itself . |
| 21 | Such actions are commonly built into firms ' and shops ' accounting procedures , as ‘ stock shrinkage ’ perhaps . |
| 22 | Constructed from structural steel sections , or occasionally of concrete , rack-supported building structures comprise of rows of back-to-back racking separated by gangways for the stacker-cranes and are commonly built up to heights of around 30 metres . |
| 23 | Several other instances are commonly cited to demonstrate the particular importance of intention in trusts . |
| 24 | On such grounds science and religion are commonly differentiated . |
| 25 | For example , many units of information , of many different kinds , are commonly stored in a single , more or less unified " image " . |
| 26 | Such books are commonly fast-written and substantially unrevised . |
| 27 | The dorsal and lateral margins of the occipital foramen are commonly bordered by a narrow rim or postocciput with which the neck membrane is directly continuous . |
| 28 | The willingness of all staff to co-operate and contribute serves as a useful counterpoint to the divisive and negative views which are commonly expressed elsewhere . |
| 29 | Crimes which are committed by those in higher positions in the social stratification system are commonly referred to as white-collar crimes . |
| 30 | They are commonly referred to as belonging to different ‘ races ’ , and the relations between Asian and West Indian communities and the white British population are referred to as ‘ race relations ’ ( cf the Race Relations Act ) . |