Example sentences of "[pron] [is] commonly " in BNC.

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1 First , there is one argument which is commonly used in this context , but which seems to me mistaken .
2 Certain plants have Gaelic names which assign particular qualities to them , such as ‘ the beer plant ’ , which is commonly known as hop(s) ( Humulus lupulus ) .
3 It is this sort of criminal behaviour which is commonly seen as characteristic of ( if not central to ) mass , urban society .
4 Ploughing , which is commonly used to prepare upland sites for afforestation , results not only in the drying out of soils and peats , but also in nutrient losses which are in excess of those occurring in undisturbed habitats .
5 The Directive , which is commonly referred to as the ‘ Seveso ’ Directive , was issued in June 1982 and in the UK its requirements were embodied in the Control of Major Accident Hazard ( CIMAH ) Regulations ( 1984 ) .
6 Hydrocarbon exploration in overthrust belts is encouraged by these results because the highly disturbed and sometimes metamorphosed rocks of the near-surface have been shown to overlie extensive areas of flat-lying and relatively undisturbed strata , separated by a fundamental detachment zone which is commonly at a depth of only a few kilometres .
7 It is a method to write down a language which is commonly confused with the language itself .
8 Sung originally by ruffians or sailors , the fado of the street is simple accompanied song spontaneously composed , the theme of which is commonly love of mother , town , the sea , etc .
9 As we have seen , during the years from about 1080 to 1095 , Anselm had given much thought to the problem of liberty , and had reached a definition of free will which left no room for that freedom of choice which is commonly regarded as its essential feature .
10 The scheme , which is commonly known as SERPS ( or State Earnings-Related Pension Scheme ) started in 1978 .
11 Its criteria of a subject 's effectiveness , for instance , are generally success at prestigious work , which is commonly associated with masculinity , and success in personal relationships , particularly long-term heterosexual and parental relationships , which is associated with femininity .
12 ( E ) to the amplitude of the population spike ( S ) which is commonly observed following a tetanus .
13 Modern instrumentalists elaborate Kautskly 's proposition that the capitalist class rules but does not itself govern , contenting itself with ruling successive governments , a claim which is commonly elaborated through a point-by-point critique of pluralism .
14 As finch ( 1989 ) describes , it is commonly asserted that this century has seen the demise of the extended family structure which is commonly assumed to have been the norm at previous points in time .
15 Next in line is the Victorian era , which is commonly remembered as harbouring some kind of gold standard of untarnished moral worth .
16 The most interesting element in this analysis is , however , the complex nature of the mechanisms themselves , whose twists and cycles are able to capture a sense of dynamic interaction in a manner which may escape that vulgarized version of the dialectic which is commonly used to represent processes of this kind .
17 The simplest form which is commonly considered has two layers of nodes .
18 Maybe they do think of themselves as being professional in the same , or similar , sense to that which is commonly understood .
19 We can no longer assume that the only proper music in church is that which is commonly called ‘ traditional ’ .
20 His word-picture also describes the typical Bronze- and Iron-Age European small dwelling developed from the wooden buildings of the Hallstatt and La Tène periods , from 700 B.C. : ‘ The wall , which is commonly about six feet high , declines from the perpendicular a little inward .
21 But to repay the loan , you pay monthly contributions to a Personal Equity Plan which is commonly known as a PEP .
22 insomnia , which is commonly a consequence of addictive disease and which resolves naturally in time as recovery progresses .
23 Modern science , which is commonly held to have been given its philosophical base by Descartes , has nearly always presupposed precisely this kind of dualistic contrast between objective matter and introspective mind .
24 In our own tests we found that the Grizzled Skipper with 512K RAM fitted showed little speed advantage over a Super VGA card with 1MB RAM which is commonly fitted in many high-end machines .
25 There is an additional prediction about the relationship between arousal and memory which is commonly made from Easterbrook 's hypothesis .
26 The founder of the theory of scales which is commonly used as the basis for social measurement is the psychologist S.S. Stevens , whose ideas began to crystallise in the 1940s in response to a challenge issued , in 1932 , by physicists and psychologists of the British Association for the Advancement of Science to " assess the possibility of " " quantitative estimates of sensory events " " .
27 We did not study anal basal pressure , which is commonly believed to play a significant part in preserving faecal continence for liquids .
28 This method , which is commonly known as staged search , does affect the admissibility of the algorithm .
29 This figure is multiplied by a number of years ' purchase , which is commonly known as the multiplier .
30 Er one potassium channel which is commonly worked on is known as the delayed rectifier .
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