Example sentences of "it has been [adj] practice " in BNC.

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1 21 In the past it has been standard practice to have exhibitions open only during normal office hours .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 It has been common practice to anticipate the worst load conditions in setting the count required to generate the RETARD signal .
5 It has been common practice to prioritise the need to prepare the accounts in accordance with SSAPs .
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