Example sentences of "[pron] is customary for [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is customary for artists to feel antagonism towards critics , and though Sylvester was welcomed at the Royal College 's Senior Common Room , the painters sometimes joked that they found their ideas a week later in the pages of The Listener translated into the very different language of the critic : Minton , accordingly , coined the term ‘ pre-Sylvestration ’ to refer to this process . |
| 2 | The wife may be unable to get a job and may have little opportunity to work in the house especially if it is customary for servants to do all cooking and housework . |
| 3 | It is customary for historians to distinguish between the ordinary and the extraordinary revenues of the Crown , between , that is to say , its recurrent , peacetime income and those occasional sums derived during wars or other emergencies from parliamentary grants or benevolences . |
| 4 | It is customary for workers to go collectively through the vines eradicating excess foliage , which improves the circulation of air around the vine and also reduces the risk of fungi developing . |
| 5 | The problem arises mainly in the South , where it is customary for sellers to appoint several agents . |