Example sentences of "[is] not [adj] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , it is not uncommon for alterations to be made to a side from the time it is announced until the team actually takes the field . |
| 2 | It is not uncommon for goods to be carried by road from a European destination through several countries to a port , where they were then loaded on board a ship , taken to another continent and again despatched by road to their final destination . |
| 3 | In this age of intensive housing it is not uncommon for homes to be positioned close to one another , the divisions between properties being constructed from fences or , ideally , by walls . |
| 4 | It is not uncommon for potentates to be experts as well and , in my experience , it is very important for a researcher to establish goodwill with people who will he helping in a research project . |
| 5 | This amounts to a concise argument that semantics is not autonomous with respect to pragmatics , and that pragmatics provides part of the necessary input to a semantic theory . |
| 6 | Of course the Bible is not epic from cover to cover , but there is an epic dimension to the Great Battle . |
| 7 | However , DTI recognises the need to provide additional support to CIME proposers where UK collaboration is not strong by comparison to that in other areas and in other countries . |
| 8 | An estate in land is not necessary in order to be an occupier and neither is physical possession . |
| 9 | Will he give at least gentle guidance to LEAs suggesting that it is not reasonable for students to be excluded from discretionary grants merely because their parents have moved home ? |
| 10 | It is not easy for users to ‘ step outside ’ and take an objective look at their predicament . |
| 11 | Because there is a two-year birth interval and because females are in reproductive synchrony , the birth-rate is not constant from year to year . |
| 12 | some some extra layers on this , I mean I think that 's very valid and the extra layers include er one , the fact that since then there have been a number of royals who have divorced and so it is not unique for royals to be divorced and the Church of England has not jumped up and down about the fact that there are royals who are divorced particularly given that the , you know the Church of England are opposed to divorce . |
| 13 | It is not unknown for claims to be submitted for the same items more than once . |
| 14 | This may seem self-evident , but it is not unknown for people to be carried along by the atmosphere of an auction , or the sales patter of a dealer . |
| 15 | Chlorine emitted during volcanic eruptions is not responsible for damage to the ozone layer , two US researchers have concluded . |
| 16 | Even if things look pretty grim at the moment consideration of twentieth-century housing developments in North Shields shows that capital has by no means always has its own way and that , as Ball indicates above , capital is not undifferentiated in relation to land and what is built on it . |
| 17 | It is not unusual for parents to be unaware of how you come to be there . |
| 18 | It 's not unusual for man to be put in this position of taking second place . |
| 19 | It is n't easy in practice to be a good carer . ’ |