Example sentences of "have a lot in " in BNC.

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1 Actually , the Lake District has a lot in common with Los Angeles beyond deprived , inner-city children .
2 Er it obviously has a lot in common with other inner city areas .
3 The pile has a lot in common with most organisations which are stable when under pressure from one direction but can collapse when under pressure from another direction .
4 JOHN Major , Graham Gooch and Graham Taylor have had a lot in common over the last week , with the latter two probably coming under even more public pressure than our beleaguered Prime Minister .
5 Yeah cos they 've had a lot in there but then
6 In truth , elephants and E. coli do have a lot in common , inasmuch as all organisms share fundamental pathways of cellular metabolism — such as protein synthesis or carbohydrate breakdown — as well as the genetic code .
7 I think you might have a lot in common . ’
8 But even now , having gone through that process , they would not see men as the enemy , they feel that they do have a lot in common , for example , with maybe the conception of women organising in National Liberation struggles that was mentioned earlier .
9 We had a lot in common and we liked each other and he was one of the best directors I ever had . ’
10 They had a lot in common , and over dinner they talked non-stop about architecture and their interest in British heritage .
11 I knew I 'd win because after the semi-final , I still had a lot in my tank . ’
12 I used to work for a young lady who loved roses , you see , and she had a lot in her garden .
13 Some people would say they had a lot in common and no doubt in some ways they have … except I 'm sure that Philippe …
14 Curtis looked after him with an understanding grin ; the two men had a lot in common .
15 ‘ I should explain that Matt and I were not lovers in the accepted sense ; we were friends — good friends , we 'd known each other from childhood so we had a lot in common .
16 I suddenly felt we had a lot in common and maybe I 'd misjudged him .
17 They had a lot in common , mostly work , Lindsey acknowledged with a rueful grimace now .
18 I suppose they had a lot in common . ’
19 ‘ When I was 16 and modelling , I got very interested because I used to see a lot of Geminis and Libras who had a lot in common , ’ says Teri .
20 Women of the first group are in many ways utterly dissimilar from each other , differing in language , religion and customs ( see tables 1 and 2 ) , but their roles in the peasant societies they have come from have a lot in common .
21 ‘ We have a lot in common , ’ says Lester .
22 And then she and the wife discover they have a lot in common apart from this man .
23 ‘ Churchill and I have a lot in common — we both have American mothers . ’
24 Mites are arachnids — close relatives of spiders and scorpions — but they have a lot in common with insects .
25 You have a lot in common .
26 ‘ I have a lot in common with the people who watch the show , and I think one of the things which has made me popular — even at the start , when I was n't very good , when I was nervous — was that people could really relate to this unsettled black guy on television .
27 The speaker assumes that the listener shares the speaker 's need for closeness and the view that both parties have a lot in common .
28 And we have a lot in common .
29 If John and Bill have a lot in common if , for example , they come from the same community or are part of the same culture then Bill is likely to interpret most of the signals in the way John intended .
30 ‘ Perhaps he thinks you 'd get on , ’ said Betty sarcastically , ‘ — have a lot in common . ’
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