Example sentences of "[adv] a normal [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In the late l9th century it was apparently a normal party-piece to imitate a well-known literary figure , signing-off with the name of the victim ; this has caused some confusion today , where recordings ‘ signed off ’ by Sir Henry Irving and Oscar Wilde now have their authenticity questioned .
2 Although he leads a different lifestyle from others he is basically a normal person !
3 I asked in what I hoped was more or less a normal voice .
4 Thus a normal training time in the new time zone might coincide with night on home time and so lead to a physically poorer and psychologically dispiriting performance .
5 Jus Just a normal Zener .
6 Erm we were on patrol , just a normal patrol in er in Belfast and unfortunately I lost my sight and two very good friends of mine were killed , and another was er blinded in one eye and severe injuries to his leg .
7 Yeah all she has to do is go go round her bit round just a normal road , across the road down a little bit and she 's there .
8 No nothing in particular , just a normal conversation .
9 The subject will actually come into the sleep laboratory in the afternoon , would be wired up to the small box , would go home , essentially carrying just a normal briefcase , a businessman from the office or whatever .
10 ‘ I do n't like that sort of life because I 'm just a normal person — extremely normal …
11 Just a normal day of married life , nothing that thousands of other people did n't take for granted — but what heaven if ever that was normality for herself and Len !
12 Just a normal life .
13 Just a normal tape recorder .
14 Was just a normal thing to do
15 it 's just a normal thing that happens
16 I do n't want a lonely life , just a normal family life again .
17 Just a normal sort of squared exercise book .
18 It 's not bounded by a solid line but it 's just a normal hatching .
19 But the doctor says that it should be just a normal period after you 've had it , but it 'll be faster flow .
20 It 's just a normal shop window — you know , with lights on and these statues and that , but it 's been done like it 's someone 's dining room .
21 ‘ It was just a normal place to grow up in .
22 Erm and it 's just a normal job .
23 Those new choices had to be afforded in terms of staff , accommodation , time , equipment and other items which needed a redisposition of money — but decisions about such items as these were already a normal part of management .
24 ‘ This is hardly a normal time .
25 Lastly , the opponents of drainage schemes have long complained about the secrecy with which the Ministry of Agriculture and the water authorities have shrouded their calculations , together with their almost universal resistance to public inquiries , which are now a normal part of the process of consultation preceding road and reservoir schemes .
26 For school librarians , providing information on microcomputer software is now a normal part of their current awareness selective dissemination of information service in schools .
27 Now a normal car battery called an accumulator , accumulator or battery rather than a cell , does n't actually make it , it stores it .
28 This is neither good nor bad in itself , it is simply a normal bit of human psychology , operating more or less strongly in different people .
29 It is quite a normal procedure , and for two mothers who had quite easy births , having these stitches had been the worst thing about it .
30 This was quite a normal thing at that time and neighbours would call to pay their last respects .
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