common form

collocation in English

meaningsofcommonandform

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common
adjective
uk
/ˈkɒm.ən/us
/ˈkɑː.mən/
the same in a lot of places or for a lot ...
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form
noun
uk
/fɔːm/us
/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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(Definition ofcommonandformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcommon form

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Intercommunal or inter-ethnic ones, waged over natural resources, are acommonform.
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At present the mostcommonformof the enzyme, which is present in all known modern diazotrophs, uses molybdenum.
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Economic inequalities are the mostcommonformof quantitative inequalities.
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Unfortunately, this kind of rendition incurs a high cost in the mostcommonformof access to terms.
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The mostcommonformof involuntary exit overall is almost certainly electoral defeat.
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In addition, this is a standard approach to dealing with acommonformof heteroscedasticity.
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The rationale for using agglomerative hierarchical clustering was that bursts are clusters of spikes and this method is the mostcommonformof cluster analysis.
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The problem is of interest because such migration of voids within conductors is a relativelycommonformof circuit failure in electrical components.
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That is to say, the mostcommonformof attachment we find in the discourses of the court is one person's 'attachment' to another.
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This is acommonformof reproduction in plants, both in nature and in the hands of plant breeders and horticulturalists.
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Anothercommonformof comorbidity involves mixed anxiety and depression.
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By 1951, private tenancies, albeit still the mostcommonformof tenure, were down to 45 per cent of the total stock.
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Dieting is perhaps the mostcommonformof body maintenance strategy employed by the women.
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Improprieties, like teasing, may create and display intimacy between participants engaging in acommonformof moderately risky play.
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Thecommonformof the fine-tuning argument, however, is not helped by this.
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Vascular dementia may be the mostcommonformof dementia in the elderly.
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The mostcommonformof bonus in those countries that have them is for 'introducers'.
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This is acommonformof coupling invariant, and often simplifies the data refinement process.
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The mostcommonformof professional development available to these teachers were workshops (60.5 percent).
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