Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] common " in BNC.

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1 This interpretation should be common both to the Service and to the Evidence Convention .
2 Any screening programme needs to fulfil several clear conditions : the disease should be common ( or important in its effects ) ; there must be a reliable screening procedure to detect disease early ; and treatment should be available to modify the outcome .
3 The Bains Report recognised the diversity of local authorities but suggested that certain basic structural features should be common to all authorities .
4 Clearly , to be useful , these features must be common to all languages , since children seem to be able to learn any language with equal facility .
5 There must be common factors , things which link all three .
6 The work of the team is co-ordinated towards meeting agreed objectives with clear differentiation between , and respect for , those skills and roles which are specific to individual members as well as those which may be common or shared .
7 Although dual employer structuring may be common in some industries , nevertheless our main concern is more specifically with the origins and development of employers ' associations themselves , which will now be delineated .
8 Although there may be common ground between them there are also likely to be enormous , and significant , differences .
9 We could not grow CTL to 1s6 from all B53-positive donors during the low transmission season for malaria but , as previous work suggested , detectable CTL to P. falciparum may be relatively short-lived in the absence of boosting , and low precursor frequencies may be common because of the very small numbers of hepatocytes infected by each sporozoite inoculum .
10 Signals such as smiling or frowning may be common across all cultures .
11 This means that family and school problems may be common antecedents of schizophrenia , but have no causal role in bringing it about .
12 ‘ The only qualifications they would need would be common sense , a judicial temperament and an elementary knowledge of the limited aspects of the law which are applicable to such disputes , ’ Lord Donaldson said .
13 That would be common enough .
14 He said , ‘ It would be common enough , but that is n't what the Patriarch was implying .
15 By this afternoon , the events of last night , or Dennis 's lurid version of them , would be common knowledge on the racing gossip circuit .
16 Outside the town wall there would be common land for grazing , and strips of arable land .
17 A commitment to the study of language would be common to every one in it .
18 We might expect that aggressive fighting would be common in nature , because natural selection will favour the most successful animals in competition , and the strongest animals are probably the most successful in fights .
19 I should have thought that it would be common ground that it is right to review such organisations from time to time to establish whether they are achieving their objectives .
20 It would be common sense to send the children to a school for the blind .
21 erm and er , you know as you 're exercising your discretion your Lordship there 's the points in the white book , my Lord in the interim it would be the societies submission that there are three reasons why during the time that it may take to get any guidance from the European court , in the interim , the application of the bi-laws and in particular the provisions of the Act nineteen eighty two should be maintained and er given er their force , because clearly my Lord if there is to be a reference to the European court , matters will take some two years or so before the European court will give it 's ruling that I think would be common ground with my learned friend
22 Remember it 's likely your problem will be common to many other women who attend the same surgery .
23 It will be common practice to permit delegation of powers by the board to , say , a managing director .
24 Remember it 's likely your problem will be common to many other women who attend the same surgery .
25 When improvising through two adjacent chords some of the notes will be common to both , but their interval names ( degrees ) and functions ( sound ) will have a different relationship to each chord .
26 Now , a number of notes will be common to two adjacent chords .
27 As we review the way teachers are feeling about their job at the present time , many of the experiences will be common enough .
28 Members of HOG are seeking to define and describe specifications for objects that will be common , interoperable features of future , productised distributed object ( and object management ) infrastructures .
29 Seventy five per cent of the modules will be common to all courses but at the professional studies level candidates will have a choice of four study routes to follow : construction management , commercial management , facilities management and project management .
30 All will be common property .
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