Sentence examples for it was the custom from inspiring English sources

Susan Richardson, the archivist at the Greenwich Historical Society, said that among Puritans, "it was the custom to use fieldstones as an affirmation of their rejection of worldly things".

"When I became an editor at Simon & Schuster, Kordaa writes, "it was the custom to take young editors out to the warehouse in New Jersey and show them a vast, gloomy space full of books gathering dust, millions of them it seemed.

At the time, the latter held a monopoly over the publishing industry; the Drapers' Company wanted its members to be able to function as publishers and booksellers as well, insisting that it was the "custom of the City" to grant its freemen the right to engage in the book trade.

Ager explained: "It was the custom to bury the person with their personal possessions.

Before then it was the custom to give a women's team a smaller photo, if they got one at all.

"It was the custom then to bury Negroes and Indians up against the churchyard walls, away from the whites".

Another of the suspects was said to have reminded a local that in Calabria "it is the custom to embed [the victims of the 'Ndrangheta] in cement casts".

Ironically, Mr McCain expressed this rather well, in a toast last week at the TIME magazine party in honour of its 100 "most influential" people:I'm informed that it is the custom to toast someone who has influenced our lives.

You never come home empty handed; it is the custom.

In Russia it is the custom for jockeys to groom the horses they ride.

That's because it's the custom in Korea to exchange one's shoes for slippers before entering a home.