1.   It was common practice for families to attend church together.

2.   It was common practice for prisoners to carve objects from animal bones to pass the time.

3.   It is common practice for clubs to loan out players to sides in the lower divisions.

4.   It is common practice among my friends to not use capital letters in e-mail.

5.   In large organizations it has become common practice for audit committees, consisting of representatives of senior management, the internal audit department and external auditors, to meet.

6.   It was common practice, for example, for a brothel-keeper brought before a court to claim that he or she belonged to a privileged nationality.

7.   It has been common practice to prioritise the need to prepare the accounts in accordance with SSAPs.

8.   It is common practice not to extend the covenant beyond the territory in which the business being sold operates at the time of completion.

9.   It is also common practice to disclose the contents and effects of extensive documents.

10.   It is common practice to use a company to make the acquisition for reasons of limited liability, and because the procedure is well understood.