Example sentences of "[was/were] not unusual for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , expenditure per student , admittedly only a rough guide , fell from £81 per student in 1890 to £38 in 1901 ; it was not unusual for the college to spend more on the gardens than on buying books . |
| 2 | ( Even during services it was not unusual for the audience to break into applause . ) |
| 3 | By the early twentieth century , it was not unusual for the library to be a masculine combination of gun room , study and smoking room , and the Dolls ' House library has a cluttered family atmosphere , scattered as it is with periodicals , newspapers , cards and dice . |
| 4 | It was not unusual for the configuration of a deep space vessel to be unbalanced . |
| 5 | It was not unusual for the orderer of the Boozebuster to specify a long route back to the office to give the victim 's fellow revellers time to get back ahead of him . |
| 6 | A high proportion of diplomats everywhere still began their careers , until well into the second half of the nineteenth century , by serving as unpaid attachés ; and it was not unusual for the head of a mission to ask for a son or a nephew to be assigned to it in this capacity . |