Example sentences of "it is not uncommon " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of this very real hazard , however , it is not uncommon to see quite experienced pilots leaving the ground with the elevator up , which results in the glider zooming up into a dangerously steep initial climb . |
| 2 | It is not uncommon for the police magazines to feature this antipathy to the academic , and especially the social science researcher : |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is not uncommon for people to say , ‘ God willing , I 'll be here tomorrow ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In the Western and Northern Isles and on the north-west mainland of Scotland , it is not uncommon to find montane plants growing at or near sea level , though this phenomenon is probably better demonstrated in NW Sutherland and Shetland than in the Western Isles . |
| 10 | It is not uncommon to see hundreds of raw lengths of wood stored outside the building , awaiting conversion , via one of the specialised processes , into walking sticks . |
| 11 | It is not uncommon for schools on the same campus serving different age ranges to share raffles , prize draws and seasonal fairs . |
| 12 | It is not uncommon to find households with two or more Rottweilers and it is in these situations , that sometimes , the green-eyed monster can appear . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | It is not uncommon for tractors to slide into a stream as they attempt to cultivate every last scrap of land beside a watercourse . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is not uncommon to refer to a ‘ hostile audience ’ or a ‘ receptive audience ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Registers tend to be filled in , often to a pattern , sometimes in advance , whereas actual attendance , particularly in rural areas may be far more sporadic than indicated , while in certain communities ( as with nomads such as the Kenya Turkana or Moslem communities suspicious of the corrupting influence of western schools on their children ) it is not uncommon to find considerable numbers of pupils who are on the roll , but attend sporadically and unwillingly . |
| 19 | In these instances it is not uncommon to find a government 's revenue ( as in Lesotho ) almost totally committed to paying its teacher force — hence nothing left over to equip the schools ; in which case it is worth asking whether the whole costly mechanism of providing school education has not come to an unprofitable full-stop just before the only point where it can be productive — enabling children to learn . |
| 20 | It is not uncommon for one parent to ‘ use ’ the child 's illness for their own purposes in these domestic problems . |
| 21 | Each rainforest tree supports many other plants and it is not uncommon to discover 30 different species on one tree including ferns , vines and orchids . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It is not uncommon that , during the investigation phase of Commission procedures , there will be an amicable settlement of a dispute using the good offices of the Commission . |
| 25 | It is not uncommon in the United Kingdom today for a seat to be won by a candidate who secures less than 40 per cent of the vote , and for a government to be formed by a party securing less than 40 per cent of votes cast overall . |
| 26 | It is not uncommon for Bills of great public importance to go to a committee of the whole House . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is not uncommon to find old goldfish that are pale lemon or even white in colour . |
| 29 | We enjoy a full employment economy , and it is not uncommon for folks to have two jobs ; there are few freeloaders here . |
| 30 | Temples are revered in this way and it is not uncommon to observe a priest in prayer moving clockwise around a sacred enclosure , or a Stupa . |