1.   Joe was chosen as captain by common consent.

2.   James Brindley, by common consent of contemporaries and historians, was a practical genius, but it seems he was unable to spell navigation.

3.   By common consent they stopped and leant on the oak fence that bordered the field of barley beyond.

4.   By common consent Sir Edward was a superb committee man, able to bring agreement from disagreement, when he brought his charm to bear.

5.   Also by common consent, this revolution also has much further to go.

6.   Bill Bradley and John McCain had, by common consent, much better Internet operations than the party machines that crushed them.

7.   But it will, by common consent, take some work.

8.   But these five white men merely appropriated idioms pioneered by blacks, and, by common consent, the black musicians did it better.

9.   By common consent, the Republican made at least a start at the Philadelphia convention towards establishing himself as a serious political figure, capable of handling large issues.

10.   By common consent, he is now an expert, even a connoisseur.