Example sentences of "[not/n't] unusual for a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is not unusual for a researcher to ‘ trail ’ the main publication by means of articles in the learned journals .
2 In autumn , however , it is not unusual for a bird to remain in one area for several weeks , and stays of more than six weeks have been recorded .
3 It was not unusual for a recording to be made in Leningrad one week and to be in the machine of a listener in the far east of the country the next week .
4 Blake was amazed at the discussion and how these men could talk about a whole planet in one conversation ; in his day it was not unusual for a conversation to centre solely on one part of London , and only in times of war was England ever considered as a single entity under threat .
5 It is not unusual for a pH value of between 4 and 5 to occur at certain locations far removed from human interference ( Charlson and Rodhe , 1982 ; Hibbard , 1982 ) .
6 It is not unusual for a receiver to continue to run a business while he is selling off the charged assets and in doing so to purchase goods on credit .
7 The curriculum at the medical schools does not make the study of dermato-venereology compulsory , and it is not unusual for a doctor to qualify in France having had little or no training in these subjects .
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