Example sentences of "[prep] [be] common " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same kind of accident used to be common with gliders , and the pilots could never remember anything after the first bounce . |
| 2 | Post-natal depression is said to be common among immigrant women generally . |
| 3 | The view that ‘ the war might have been over today ’ was said to be common among women in country localities . |
| 4 | Supervisors would need to consider the validity of such explanations : where scrutiny of a number of schedules showed avoidance of particular areas to be common , this would have implications for agency policy and staff training . |
| 5 | In particular , the genetic flexibility shown by E. coli seems to be common . |
| 6 | While Robyn was hesitating , the office began to fill up with men wearing drab suits and dull ties and with the pasty complexions that seemed to be common to everybody who worked in the factory . |
| 7 | Here arch , colonnade , dome , and column were flaunted in a triumphalist manner , with the vault of the great concourse projecting dramatically above the roof line as was to be common in all Beaux-Arts stations . |
| 8 | They used to be common in the Aberdeen Angus too . |
| 9 | What diseases used to be common but now are hardly ever heard of ? |
| 10 | Long term insect action may produce modifications similar to that produced by wood-boring insects on dead wood ( Behrensmeyer , 1978 ; Thorne & Kimsey , 1983 ) , but this does not seem to be common . |
| 11 | If this route proves to be common to many animal viruses it might point to new ways in which viral infections could be attacked with drugs . |
| 12 | One of its features , a lessening of the body's. resistance to infection , seems to be common in homosexuals who do not have AIDS . |
| 13 | In children , hyperactivity ( see p 206 ) is among the symptoms , and food colourings appear to be common culprits . |
| 14 | A tendency for manufacturing to fall as a percentage of gross domestic product seems to be common to all industrial societies . |
| 15 | Singers in Zambia were very skilled at improvisation , and the same skill seems to be common in many other parts of Africa . |
| 16 | Such a molecular arrangement does not seem to be common in natural structural materials and indeed , a Polythene tree of any considerable height would be a public menace because of its low modulus . |
| 17 | Such waste was also found to be common at Catholme ( Losco-Bradley 1977 ) . |
| 18 | This scroll is a true record of your surname origins , even people with what may appear to be common names will find the research informative and interesting , and a talking point within family and friends . |
| 19 | Rattlesnakes are supposed to be common , though they are generally shy and silent and we did n't see any trace of them . |
| 20 | I shall describe what seems to be common , though in the knowledge that any picture of such a complex and varied profession must necessarily be somewhat of a caricature . |
| 21 | If this latter is important , then we would expect the big rape cases which get a lot of media coverage to be especially important in the formation of beliefs , since they are more likely to be common currency for discussion than the smaller cases . |
| 22 | Such a pattern of incremental earnings tends to be common among white-collar workers where general skills and experience are transferable between say schools , universities , hospitals , banks or legal institutions . |
| 23 | It is a central tenet of the ethogenic approach that what seems to be one and only one institution may be embedded in more than one theory , and what may seem to be common and even co-ordinated practices may differ very widely indeed . |
| 24 | The suggestion that the second person of the trinity , the Logos , is ‘ male ’ , but the Spirit should be seen as ‘ female ’ would appear to be common among more conservative Christians , Catholic , Anglican and Orthodox , and has been taken up by Christian feminists . |
| 25 | Obviously cold injury is far more common when would you expect cold injury to be common ? |
| 26 | To H. C. Wyld , for example — surely the best historian of English — it probably seemed to be common sense to believe that RP was the most important accent of Modern English , and that a historical account of English pronunciation should therefore be , in effect , a history of RP . |
| 27 | All that we have described so far we believe to be common to visionary leadership in general . |
| 28 | Bror Blixen , Karen Blixen 's husband , had syphilis and it was said to be common among the Masai . |
| 29 | These shapes are said to be common to each of the three pictures . |
| 30 | These and other problems seem to be common everywhere . |