Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] a common [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1700 stage wagons were a common sight in southern England and were usual through the Midlands by 1750 . |
| 2 | Blow-overs were a common occurrence in the early days with lighter gliders and they sometimes even happened on almost windless summer days . |
| 3 | Nurse-maids with their children were a common sight but as yet there were a few hotels and most visitors took ‘ rooms ’ with the local inhabitants who cooked the food which their guests bought at local shops . |
| 4 | Twin fins were a common feature of American 1930s designs , but the nose-wheel then the very latest novelty . |
| 5 | As we shall see , the attempt to employ the same concepts to describe quite different tasks was a common phenomenon among young nationalists . |
| 6 | ‘ There was a time , ’ she read , ‘ when the acclaim of both the public and his fellow artists was a common thing for Mr Michael Swinton . |
| 7 | Black widow spiders were a common nuisance when dealing with fruit such as bananas . |
| 8 | Fires were a common hazard , often caused by sparks from the stones igniting combustible material in the dusty dry atmosphere . |
| 9 | Red blood cells , white cells , granular bile pigment , and benign ductal epithelial cells were a common finding and are shown in Figure 1 . |