Example sentences of "it be customary [prep] [noun pl] [to-vb] " 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 . |
| 6 | It was customary for boxers to box frequently , and Lynch had twenty-five contests in his twentieth year , by which time he was acknowledged to be the best ‘ wee ’ man in Glasgow . |
| 7 | Numerous bull songs were written and ‘ at the public-houses and at other convivial assemblies in the town for six weeks before and six weeks after the Taurine festival it was customary for men to sing the glories of the sport ’ ( G. H. Burton ) . |