Example sentences of "it [be] common [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is common practice for a collector wishing to resell works that he owns to do so through the gallery of origin , for a variety of reasons . |
| 2 | It is common practice for workers to take the spare pack home to peruse — the bureau that assigns time to a worker specifically for reading is rare ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 3 | Because the taille does not reflect the same quality appeal as the cuvée , it is common practice for many houses to declare they never use vins de taille in their Champagnes , preferring to sell on any they may have . |
| 4 | It is common practice for diplomats to be tortured for information . |
| 5 | Indeed , where the vendor can provide Newco with no warranty protection at all ( for example where the business is being bought from a receiver ) , it is common practice for the vendor to transfer the targeted assets and specified liabilities on an intra-group basis to a newly formed target company , which is then sold to Newco . |
| 6 | In the USA it is common practice for personal injury firms to have a nurse on the staff who accompanies the plaintiff to the defendant 's examination and takes notes . |
| 7 | It was common practice for marriage registers to record the places of abode of the newly-weds , and what Kendall did was to use this information to construct a crude measure of dissimilarity between villages based on frequency of intermarriage over a long period . |
| 8 | It was common practice for families to attend evening service and we sat in the same pew each week , about half way back in the north aisle . |
| 9 | Under the traditional style , it was common practice for the seller 's conveyancer to supply office copy entries on the title with the contract , but not to supply an epitome of title for unregistered property until after contracts had been exchanged . |
| 10 | It was common form for converts who had led relatively blameless lives to condemn , as Newton did , ‘ the impiety and profaneness ’ of their unregenerate days ; but in his case there were the hard facts of his voyages in slave ships to the West Coast of Africa , on one of which he had been abandoned to his fate and only rescued through a combination of circumstances that indeed seemed to be almost miraculous . |
| 11 | For many centuries it was common form for a bishop to address a presbyter as ‘ fellow-presbyter ’ . |