This smacks of outdated cultural norms, and alternative possibilities spring readily to mind.
The Times Literary Supplement
Mind you, the alternatives do not spring readily to mind.
Times, Sunday Times
Two words spring readily to mind - low risk.
Times, Sunday Times
It springs readily to mind, however, in describing this understated, modestly mannered writer and publisher who, almost incidentally, achieved an international reputation for his knowledge of the watch industry.
Times, Sunday Times