Example sentences of "it is [adv] commonly [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is particularly commonly seen in highland New Guinea , an island where spineless forms of the sago palm , Metroxylon sagu , have been selected ; several fruit-trees are encouraged if not actively cultivated there . |
| 2 | It is most commonly woven into textured or pile fabrics and it has an advantage over wool in that when washed correctly ( without too much heat ) it will retain its shape , drip dry and need little ironing . |
| 3 | It is most commonly known to affect brown rice and sweetcorn during cooking . |
| 4 | But it is also commonly found , more or less explicitly , in traditional grammar , as Chomsky himself pointed out , citing the Port-Royal grammar ( Chomsky , 1968 ) . |
| 5 | The lime juice myth was so firmly entrenched that it is still commonly believed . |
| 6 | It is now commonly agreed that a better way of appraising projects is to use a method of discounting such as discounted cash flow ( DCF ) or net present value ( NPV ) as rate of return takes no account of the timing of receipts . |
| 7 | It is now commonly held that it was when the upright walkers replaced the sprawlers that the way was paved for homeothermic dinosaurs . |
| 8 | Transmission teaching , or ‘ recitation teaching ’ as it is more commonly called in the United States , is so pervasive within the school system that it can easily be interpreted as the ‘ natural ’ or ‘ proper ’ way to teach , as a network of rules and procedures special to the teaching environment which must be learned , rehearsed and developed in a practical way by the new teacher in order to gain competent membership of the teaching community , and of the classroom order in particular . |
| 9 | On the Von Neumann computer this was called the arithmetic register ( AR ) ; but it is more commonly referred to as the multiplier-quotient ( MQ ) or quotient ( Q ) register . |
| 10 | It is more commonly known today as water gas . |
| 11 | It is of course acknowledged that the new TransAction scheme ( or the National Protocol as it is more commonly known ) does not apply to commercial transactions , or indeed to transactions involving building or farmland . |
| 12 | ( Wilson chooses the word ‘ companies ’ in preference to the currently favoured term ‘ laudesi confraternities ’ as it is more commonly found in contemporary Italian documents . ) |