The phrase "conventional divisions" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the established and accepted ways of categorizing something. For example, "Instead of using conventional divisions such as gender or race, the researchers sorted the group by level of education."
As Mahagonny is built, the conventional divisions between stage, pit and public buckle and bend.
But in removing conventional divisions between audience and performer, you also remove all the unwritten protocols of expectation.
Ruskin, who found new moral meanings in the built environment, evolved visions of a new form of society in which conventional divisions between gentlemen and labourers were ended.
The higher taxa (e.g., family, order, class, phylum, kingdom) are merely conventional divisions, which are of heuristic use in biology.
The conventional division between Europe and Asia at the Ural Mountains is completely meaningless for steppe history and geography.
According to the conventional division of labour between the two disciplines, moral philosophy provides assessments of human behaviour in well-determined situations.
Rather, it is (by Seneca's time) a conventional division, going back, on the one hand, to Aristotle's discussion of the life of theoria ('contemplation') as compared to the life of politics, and on the other hand to Plato's and Aristotle's engagement with prominent views about the good (the good is pleasure, the good is honor, the good is wisdom).
This grouping was made according to the conventional division that existed between hunter-gatherers and pastoralists at the time of colonization.
A conventional division is into 'proinflammatory' M1 monocytes, which secrete proinflammatory cytokines and have a cytotoxic role, and 'resident' M2 monocytes, which participate in tissue remodeling, wound healing and angiogenesis.
In this continuing transitional phase towards the goal of normalisation around more conventional democratic divisions, the DNA of Northern Ireland's politics will remain at once clumsily dysfunctional yet immeasurably better than the sectarian prejudices and horror of the past.
Electron microscopy revealed three conventional mitotic divisions within the single large male nucleus at ∼ 3, 8 and 15 min following activation (conventional with the no exception that at no point do the chromosomes condense! – a fact that might correlate with the very rapid replication of the genomes).
