Example sentences of "been common [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An inquiry into that case showed that the head 's activities had probably been common knowledge among the staff for years . |
| 2 | It may be able to detect the entire NCSA virus library , but it 's still oblivious to some viruses that have been common knowledge for many months . |
| 3 | For months it had apparently been common knowledge ; something to be tutted over and discussed in hushed tones that stopped abruptly whenever she entered the common-room . |
| 4 | Hedgerows produced berries , fruits , and herbs : the lore concerning these products would have been common knowledge in former times when they were more widely used . |
| 5 | The Minister can not fail to acknowledge what has been common knowledge in the combined heat and power industry — that the major block is electricity prices . |
| 6 | The term ‘ crisis ’ has been common currency in both media and academic accounts of the penal system for over 20 years now ; the word recurs in newspaper headlines and in the titles of learned books and articles ( eg Bottoms and Preston , 1990 ; Rutherford , 1999 ) . |
| 7 | Anywhere other than a rugby pitch it would have been common assault . |
| 8 | Dirty , bloodstained , and exhausted lords surrounded by brutal warriors , making their way from primitive wooden castles to austere monastic refuges , must have been common sights on the West Frankish roads . |
| 9 | In the past it has been common wisdom that a major party will not suggest extreme policies , for to do so is to invite electoral defeat . |
| 10 | It has long been common practice to give students isolated passages of poetry or prose , often but not always anonymous , to analyse , discuss , and respond to , in the manner of Richards 's original undertaking . |
| 11 | Traditionally it has been common practice for schools to seek to maintain discipline and control misbehaviour via the exertion of authority and the employment of sanctions as punishments . |
| 12 | It has been common practice for petroleum geologists to regard the pre-Permian rocks of England south of the so-called Variscan Front as economic basement . |
| 13 | It has been common practice to anticipate the worst load conditions in setting the count required to generate the RETARD signal . |
| 14 | However , as we have seen in my interview responses many of these so-called ‘ new ’ approaches have been common practice in good arts departments for many years before the introduction of TVEI . |
| 15 | It has been common practice to prioritise the need to prepare the accounts in accordance with SSAPs . |
| 16 | From the cases , this seems to have been common practice in the nineteenth century : see for instance Re Carus-Wilson & Greene ( 1886 ) 18 QBD 7 , where there were two valuers and an umpire to value timber in a land sale . |
| 17 | Since , as has throughout been common ground , the defendants were not at liberty to divulge to others information acquired as agents for Mr. Brant , the defendants could not tell the plaintiff the true position without breaching their duty to Mr. Brant . |
| 18 | It has throughout been common ground that the benefit in this case to each taxpayer is that ‘ his son is allowed to participate in all the facilities afforded by the school to boys who are educated there . ’ |
| 19 | There were no questions or interjections from the floor of the Chamber , as is customary in the British House of Commons , and as had been common debating practice during the Second Republic . |