Example sentences of "as it is commonly [verb] " in BNC.

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1 This gave the BDN , as it is commonly referred to , the chance of reaching a readership beyond the ranks of the BDDA , and the new paper under its editor Kenneth McDougall , the BDDA 's Chairman , took full advantage of this opportunity .
2 Whatever arguments there may be in favour of the independence of members of assemblies or parliaments , it is hard to see what they have to do with representation as it is commonly understood .
3 A party is not mandated to carry out particular policies in the sense of the term " mandate " used above , and as it is commonly understood .
4 Of all Edward 's legislation , three pieces particularly affected the church : the statutes De Viris Religiosis , or Mortmain as it is commonly called , Circumspecte Agatis , and Westminster II , chapter 41 .
5 This problem can be overcome by changing to an assembly line operation which is a prominent feature of flow production , or mass production , as it is commonly called .
6 As for the meaning of dependent conditionals , it is possible and perhaps necessary to say of them , as it is commonly said of " if " statements of various kinds , that they are to be taken as primitive , in the sense of not being open to analytical definition or reductive analysis .
7 That Farriery as it is commonly practised is conducted without principle or science , and greatly to the injury of the noblest and most useful of our animals .
8 In this latter case it is important to realise that we should expect to get true hyphenated justification or H&J as it is commonly known .
9 I have deliberately refrained from referring to the movement as a ‘ pre-feed ’ roll , as it is commonly termed .
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