Although it is commonplace to use the word "Shariah" and the phrase "Islamic law" interchangeably, this prosaic English translation does not capture the full set of associations that the term "Shariah" conjures for the believer.
Scotland manager Gordon Strachan thinks David Moyes can take solace in the fact that getting the sack is so commonplace in English football.
Such deals between managers, and directors of football, and their clubs are commonplace in the English game, and not criminal in the slightest, of course.
For decades, a growing network of scrappers in America has refined and updated English commonplace books and turned scrapbooking into folk art.
The elegy is not commonplace in the modern English novel.
Its masterly realism—"the faithful representing of commonplace things"—brought to English fiction the same truthful observation of minute detail that John Ruskin was commending in the Pre-Raphaelites.
There are words that have highly prejudicial origins that have just happened to become commonplace expressions in the English language.
This sensation is not commonplace among long-time observers of English cricket.
As Wales comes around to the discipline of accountability and transparency that has been commonplace in England for the past decade, English schools are heading in a radical new direction, towards financial independence and parental oversight.
