Example sentences of "[not/n't] unusual for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not unusual for a private company to have rigorous controls governing sale of shares , and this is so in Faber 's case , where the shareholdings break down evenly among employees , T S Eliot 's widow Valerie and the Faber family . |
| 2 | There is a large overlap between trade marks and passing-off and it is not unusual for a legal action to involve both passing-off and trade marks . |
| 3 | It is not unusual for a new Member to be welcomed , despite the fact that he may not yet have contributed to our proceedings . |
| 4 | Her Yorkshire childhood sounds unremarkable — lacking in affection perhaps , but it was not unusual for a young girl of a certain class and a certain generation to be brought up by a nanny rather than a mummy ; to be sent away when she was ‘ five years old and a day ’ ; to be schooled in a certain stiff-upper-lip mentality ; to show no emotion . |
| 5 | The problem of interpretation is compounded in considering MPs occupation and interests ; it was not unusual for a young man from a landed family to be called to the Bar ( but not to practice ) , to serve in the armed forces ( but not to become a professional soldier ) , and then to settle down to a political career with several directorships . |
| 6 | Up to 100 eggs per spawning act are produced and 500–600 is not unusual for a complete spawning phase . |
| 7 | It was not unusual for a direct appeal to be made in a memorial text to casual passers-by , or for visually impressive and even amusing monuments to command attention from the side of a road . |
| 8 | It was not unusual for a single employer to have to negotiate with five or more of the more than 300 trade unions . |
| 9 | To give one example of the size of the documentation problem it is not unusual for a large process plant to have two or three hundred volumes of instructions . |
| 10 | It is not unusual for a corporate business to make political contributions ’ . |
| 11 | Consequently , it is not unusual for a local authority to confer a fire resistance capacity of half an hour on an unprotected cast-iron structure . |