Example sentences of "it [be] common [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is common to include as the purchaser 's responsibility such items as fencing , new roadworks , removal and reconstruction of septic tanks , connection of existing properties to new drains , and construction of garages . |
| 2 | In exploring this problem , it is common to point to two basic types of social control or restraint . |
| 3 | In other augmented canons it is common to repeat faster parts , so that all voices end together with the augmentation . |
| 4 | In particular — and on this see the work of Mary Douglas — when the body politic is threatened , it is common to see increased attention paid to the purity , integrity and unity of the physical body . |
| 5 | Alchian and Demsetz ( 1972 : 777 ) state unequivocally : ‘ It is common to see the firm characterized by fiat , by authority , or by disciplinary action superior to that available in the conventional market . |
| 6 | It is common to dismiss women 's analysis and writing as tendentious , irrational , subjective , misguided , or more simply wrong . |
| 7 | It is common to take account of the duration of customer contracts and to allow the purchaser a period that extends beyond the contract renewal point . |
| 8 | In catalogues , for instance , it is common to index no more than three separate subjects for any one document . |
| 9 | Nowadays it is common to use the term mass instead of weight . |
| 10 | Certainly , it is common to lose all track of time in labour ; the intensity of the last stages seem to take place in another dimension . |
| 11 | It is common to turn the bureau telephone answering machine on with the recorded message that an adviser is not available to take the call and the potential client should call again later or come in person to the bureau . |
| 12 | It is common to talk of two groups of financial markets : the ‘ money ’ markets and the ‘ capital ’ markets . |
| 13 | We have already seen that it is common to feel tired about lunchtime ( the ‘ post-lunch dip ’ ) ; this is about 12 hours after retiring and so is another example of an ultradian rhythm with a period less than 24 hours . |
| 14 | It is common to feel light headed or ‘ distant ’ after working intuitively , unless you consciously return to terra-firma . |
| 15 | It is common to feel treated as an object . |
| 16 | In the latter it is common to find small classes sharing a classroom , sometimes with a single teacher , sometimes with more than one but nearly always seated as a separate group with their own ‘ territory ’ and blackboard , for there exists a strange orthodoxy that a teacher with modest education and training ‘ can not be taught to handle more than one class at the same time ’ . |
| 17 | As a result , it is common to find many of the widely supported objectives not explicitly recognized in assessment procedures . |
| 18 | Where one particular elite ( or elite coalition ) has a stranglehold on political power , it is common to find increased governmental inertia , conservative leadership , networks of nepotism and patronage , and generally rising levels of corruption , as some observers suggested was true ofthe French Fifth Republic between 1958 and 1981 , and may still be true of contemporary Italy . |
| 19 | This chapter has suggested that it is common to find exaggerated accounts of Japan 's position as the model of an unusually successful and harmonious capitalist society , in particular that compliance may be involuntary and that social inequalities are not as insignificant as they may appear . |
| 20 | Certainly , during this period it is common to find English teachers expressing a sense of the futility , or at least extreme difficulty , of attempting to influence in the direction of submission to great works of literature , students socialized into a culture of " affluence " . |
| 21 | In Pakistan , it is common to find three generations of a family living in the same house perhaps together with aunts , uncles and cousins . |
| 22 | b ) Social mobility : in western societies it is common to find that individuals aspire to " move up " to the next social class above . |
| 23 | The disk in this family is delicate and prone to damage and it is common to find deep sea specimens without their disks . |
| 24 | In the high grade group it is common to find a palpable mass , hepatomegaly or splenomegaly , and palpable lymphadenopathy . |
| 25 | It is common to find gaps when nothing is recorded , blank spaces where the minister has forgotten a name when he came to register it after the event , repetitions , erasures and insertions . |
| 26 | It is common to find that the will-maker was ‘ sick in body but full in mind ’ , and a clause often cancelled any previous wills . |
| 27 | It is common to find provisions for late delivery and late payment included in contracts . |
| 28 | 2.1 Non-competition/canvassing clauses It is common to find in an employment contract an express clause which restricts competition/canvassing by an employee both during and after employment . |
| 29 | You may lose hair because of illness or a shock , and it is common to have hair loss about three months after having a baby , but this is only temporary and the hair grows back . |
| 30 | It is possible to record from more than one subject at a time on a single EEG machine , so that it is common to have two bedrooms equipped with headboards ( into which the electrodes are plugged ) — for instance as in the Department of Human Sciences at Loughborough University — or to have two headboards and beds in a single bedroom , as in Hull . |