Example sentences of "have [det] [prep] common " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incomprehensible — at least at first glance — to those not familiar with the campaign , the image has much in common not only with British TV commercials but also with some branches of avant-garde photographic art in Britain which deliberately borrow cool and elliptical presentation techniques for other ends . |
| 2 | The work in the Netherlands is therefore considered here with that of the Germanic Baltic group with which it has much in common . |
| 3 | The political allegiance owed by the three greatest novelists of the Period , for example , could hardly have had less in common : I. S. Turgenev ( 1818–83 ) was a moderate liberal , F. M. Dostoevsky ( 1821–81 ) preached his own brand of Orthodox conservatism , and L. N. Tolstoy ( 1828–1910 ) was to become a great prophet of non-violent protest against modern civilization . |
| 4 | Perhaps having that in common is partly responsible for what 's between you . |
| 5 | SYDNEY WOODERSON and Zola Budd did not have much in common but they knew a special achievement and a peculiar failure . |
| 6 | The major innovations and discoveries of the 20th century such as transistors , penicillin or nuclear power could not have been predicted before their time nor do their stories have much in common except the the research which led to them could not have been directed towards their discovery . |
| 7 | I do n't somehow think we 'd have much in common . ’ |
| 8 | Young Germans may have less in common than is thought , writes Michael Simmons |
| 9 | In a somewhat similar vein nuclear physics contains examples of processes that appear to have little in common , but which may be unified . |
| 10 | ‘ We — we do n't seem to have much in common , ’ she said . |
| 11 | ‘ We — uh — we do n't seem to have much in common . ’ |
| 12 | Techniques were initially to some extent specific to particular branches of geomorphology but increasingly were found to have much in common and this trend should be further intensified as the potential of environmental monitoring by remote sensing becomes even more widely available and fully utilizes the opportunities offered by developments in microelectronics . |
| 13 | The processes which keep alive a microbe , a spinach plant , and a human turned out to have more in common than might have been expected . |
| 14 | Occupational types , for example , whether crofters , fishermen or merchants , are together presumed to have more in common than they have to divide them . |
| 15 | Their initial relationship is one of icy formality , but as time goes on they seem to have more in common … |
| 16 | The couple had little in common , and her children died in infancy , one after another , a loss she attributed to the lead works Wright ran on their premises . |
| 17 | And in Scotland and Wales because there were no equivalents to the metropolitan districts , major urban centres were left as part of much bigger administrative areas with which they sometimes had little in common . |
| 18 | For they had little in common , and Roy was furious with Julie when he was tricked into appearing on ITV 's This Is Your Life . |
| 19 | While the colonies looked to Englishmen like a widely diverse collection of territories with widely differing religious and economic foundations that had little in common , the other colonizing powers of Europe probably noticed their similarities rather than their differences . |
| 20 | His elder son had been killed in Mesopotamia in the Great War and with his younger son he had little in common . |
| 21 | On reflection , my brothers and I had this in common — attraction to the opposite sex . |
| 22 | It was easy to claim , as did Thomas Sprat in his History of the Royal Society ( 1667 ) , that the two reformations had this in common : Each prized the original copies of God 's two books , nature and the Bible , bypassing the corrupting influence of scholars and priests . |
| 23 | They had this in common : each knew what it was to kill their father : knew the reality of it in their bones . |
| 24 | The two had much in common : conceit , fame , unorthodox pulpit manners and a trenchant belief in liberal progress . |
| 25 | The Klondike and Hollywood had much in common . |
| 26 | The pair had much in common . |
| 27 | During that two hours they realised that they had much in common . |
| 28 | Hopper and Dean had much in common . |
| 29 | Iron was increasingly worked in the Forest of Dean and the high Weald in Sussex , which in wealth and social structure had much in common . |
| 30 | She and Earl Spencer worked on a book for the Greater London Council called What is Our Heritage ? and soon found they had much in common . |