1.   It was just routine procedure, playing percentages, and I was very surprised when I heard that the proposal had been rejected.

2.   After that, it was a matter of routine procedure.

3.   An abortion is a routine procedure only in terms of medical simplicity.

4.   At issue for Partners and dozens of other hospitals across the nation are growing collections of biological material collected from patients during surgery and other routine procedures.

5.   A few routine procedures can go a long way.

6.   Changing pumps is a routine procedure at tank farms.

7.   Even the routine procedure of booking Pinochet by taking a mug shot and fingerprinting him has been delayed five times since early April and may never take place.

8.   He also said that blood from all the bodies would be tested for HIV, the AIDS virus, which he described as a routine procedure in such cases.

9.   I was surprised and alarmed, because even though security checks were a routine procedure, polygraphs were not.

10.   In heart and orthopedic surgery most of all, even routine procedures still pay well and require elaborate scans and tests.