Example sentences of "it [be] [art] common [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As this case illustrates , it is a common mistake for the Crown Court to overlook the limitations on the permissible aggregate sentence in the magistrates ' court , set out in Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.133 . |
| 2 | It is a common problem for a woman to undervalue herself , being aware only of what she can not , rather than what she can , do . |
| 3 | The pressured atmosphere surrounding the takeover battle may result in the offeror 's shares being valued at a very full price at the time of the offer , but it is a common phenomenon for the share price to fall back after the euphoria has died down . |
| 4 | Some twenty years later the District Judge at Kagalla found similar attitudes : ‘ It is a common occurrence for persons to see an animal being driven away under very suspicious circumstances , and yet , although perhaps living within a stone 's throw of the owner , they take no trouble to go and tell him what they have seen , and probably say nothing about it until they meet him looking for his stolen animal , three or four days afterward ; of course then the recovery is hopeless ! ’ |
| 5 | It was a common experience for me to fall in love with love and then be led up the garden path , only to be rejected and mocked . |
| 6 | Henry Erskine , counsel for the Middlesex committee , said it was a common trick for people claiming benefit of the acts of insolvency , and the bankrupt laws , to bargain for goods to a large amount from strangers to enable their estates to make a better dividend among their old creditors . |
| 7 | In the 1960s the oil boom made Venezuela the country to emigrate to , and it was a common occurrence for the emigrant who made good to hire a large American car ( Cadillac or similar ) and to return to Madeira by ship with the car . |