Example sentences of "is a common " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flying through the sea breeze front without realising it is a common cause of inadvertently landing downwind and ending up in a hedge . |
| 2 | Indeed , it is a common observation in experiments of this kind that subjects themselves often express confusion about what they are conscious of . |
| 3 | It is essential to work the trapezius muscles , otherwise a stooped , round-shouldered posture will result ; this is a common fault with people who do a lot of chest work but little or no back work . |
| 4 | Well , although spaying is a common operation ( not common enough for my liking ! ) , it 's a very intricate operation and , on a scale of 0–10 for complexity , rates a good five . |
| 5 | This is a common rhetorical device in contemporary theoretical writing , and has been usefully analysed — and condemned — by Roger Poole as ‘ Hegelian grammar ’ , which is ‘ the use of verbs of decision , movement , or responsibility which are illegitimately coupled to grammatical subjects which are neither animate nor conscious . ’ |
| 6 | It is a common leftist belief that poetry is an ‘ élitist ’ mode , precisely because of the cultural literacy it presupposes , which gives an unfair advantage to students from middle-class homes with books . |
| 7 | As one reflection of this , telephone calls about matters like this were occasionally terminated by the slamming down of the receiver , followed by the defiant expletives of ‘ old bag ’ , ‘ old cow ’ , or ‘ bastard ’ , which Manning 's ethnography shows is a common closing remark among disgruntled policemen ( 1977 , p. xiv ) . |
| 8 | The phrase that the law is an ass , because it falls to cover the circumstance , is a common pairing lime on the part of the neighbourhood men in situations like this . |
| 9 | It is a common problem along this stretch containing such a fine head of roach but the lulls in the catch rate rarely last longer than ten minutes . |
| 10 | It is a common finding when we are jet-lagged or trying to sleep in the day after night-work . |
| 11 | Insomnia is a common complaint in which the sufferer has poor sleep that is often broken many times during the course of the night . |
| 12 | More seriously , because the tiles are much heavier than either slates or clay tiles , the simple replacement of one of these traditional coverings with concrete units , where no steps have been taken to strengthen a lightly structured roof , is likely , at best , to result in deflection of the roof surface ( sagging of concrete tile replacement roof surfaces is a common sight in older houses ) . |
| 13 | For ‘ I wish you on the top of Brocken ’ is a common curse … ‘ |
| 14 | Shakespeare 's technique , to let us into a secret that the hero will only discover for himself at the end , is a common one in playwriting and storytelling . |
| 15 | The single Hebrew word translated ‘ when they make a long blast ’ is a common enough verb meaning to ‘ draw ’ or ‘ drag ’ . |
| 16 | There is a common expectation that mourners will visit the cemetery where the dead person 's body or ashes have been interred for a recognized period of time , attending to flowers at the grave and generally maintaining contact with the memory of the dead person . |
| 17 | Again this is a common and ‘ normal ’ reaction , but many people feel so ashamed of thoughts like these that they hardly dare express them unless they feel safe enough to do so and trust the person they are talking to sufficiently for such a revelation to seem acceptable . |
| 18 | Death of the horse is a common outcome . |
| 19 | The aggressive anticlockwise spiral is a common phenomenon in the northern hemisphere . |
| 20 | In animals , the formation of sheets of cells which fold in various ways , and which in consequence come into contact with each other at specific points , is a common feature of development , and provides a partial answer to Weismann 's question . |
| 21 | Land is a common resource , not just a private affair , and effective community land policies are required . |
| 22 | There is a common belief that switching off lights increases energy consumption and also reduces the life of fittings . |
| 23 | However , in occupied areas , overheating is a common problem . |
| 24 | As Jonah Barish ( 1969 ) has pointed out , embedded in our language is a common usage of artistic metaphors of which the dramatic ones are unambiguously pejorative . |
| 25 | After considering a variety of cases their main conclusion is that , operationally , the genome ( the genes of an individual animal ) is a common unit of selection and that to refer to individuals as units of selection is not necessarily in error . |
| 26 | The brachiopod Macrocoelia expansa is a common species on this slab of Ordovician age . |
| 27 | Besides carbon , hydrogen , oxygen , and nitrogen , two other non-metals are of outstanding significance in living things : sulphur ( which among other things is a common component of proteins ) ; and phosphorus ( which — among many other roles — is an essential component of nucleic acids ) . |
| 28 | Running through all these organisms is a common theme . |
| 29 | There is a common tendency to distinguish between ‘ belief in ’ and ‘ belief that ’ . |
| 30 | To conclude this section , I would like to suggest that there is a common presumption among theists who explore , in their different ways , the nature of God as light or as existence . |