Example sentences of "have [adv] [prep] common [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In other words , Saab felt that she had less in common with ‘ feminists ’ in general ( which , as we know , is often a shorthand for White Western women ) than with women of the Orient .
2 Careful examination of Jones ' experiment showed that it had less in common with that of Fleischmann and Pons than the media advertised : Jones measured no heat and his neutrons were more than a billionfold too few to explain the amounts of heat that the chemists were claiming .
3 This was a band inspired into existence by The Sex Pistols , but who had more in common with Sabbath , Hawkwind , Hendrix , Pink Floyd …
4 Although Barrett described himself as an ‘ antiques dealer ’ , the way he handled Miss Prinsep had more in common with the foot-in-the-door techniques employed by what the Sussex police wearily refer to as the ‘ knocker boys ’ .
5 None of this included identification with a national entity ; indeed , ‘ a French knight , like a French priest , had more in common with a knight or a priest from Italy or Germany than with a French peasant ’ .
6 Tony Beard in Record Mirror described the group as ‘ Rumbling rather than jangling ’ and that songs like ‘ Crushed ’ had more in common with Sonic Youth than Orange Juice .
7 Coleridge had little sympathy with their overheated prose , and his own response to this charged and mysterious place probably had more in common with that of a later visitor , Samuel Palmer , who in the nineteenth century saw Culbone through visionary eyes .
8 The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation .
9 The fact that parts of Poland were virtually indistinguishable from parts of Germany in terms of social complexity , levels of absolute poverty and economic success , that the Polish szlachta and the German Junker had more in common with each other than they did with either Berliners or Warsawians , that the average Polish and German smallholders and peasants had more in common with each other than they did with their social betters and political masters — all this meant nothing , except perhaps to make the Germans more convinced that the Poles would eventually drag them down to the Polish level of degradation .
10 Louis had more in common with Carl than with Sam , Jerry or me .
11 David Martill of the Open University , and David Unwin of Reading University , discovered the fossilized tissue of the wing of a Sandactylus alive 100 million years ago , which had more in common with bat wings than the skin of modern reptiles .
12 If anything , these studies had more in common with the avowedly anti-correctionalist ‘ labelling ’ theories of the later 1960s .
13 Going to the cinema in the 1940s and 1950s , for example , was an important part of courtship among young people : it had more in common with other courtship rituals than with other forms of media use , such as reading the paper .
14 In production terms , the morning paper perhaps had more in common with the assembly line than with the production of most TV programmes .
15 The Gascons did not consider themselves French ; their language was barely intelligible to those who spoke the langue d'oil of the north , and their culture and society had more in common with Languedoc than with northern France .
16 In some ways , Wendell decided as he went upstairs , he had more in common with Harry than with his own son , Judd .
17 One suspects that police constables had more in common with local popular culture than with evangelical vigilantes .
18 The British coal dispute of 1984–5 had more in common with the American ‘ labor struggles ’ of the early twentieth century than the post-reform era UMW strikes of 1977 and 1981 .
19 She had more in common with those wartime women than she knew .
20 As partners in pursuit of the common goals and values of democracy , freedom , human rights and the market economics , stated Yeltsin , Russia now had more in common with South Korea than with the unreformed communist North .
21 The fusion of a Country coalition in opposition to the Court in the early 1690s was assisted by the common experience of working on the Commission of Public Accounts , which led a number of Tories and Whigs to realise they had more in common with each other than with their supposed party allies at Court .
22 The tears , the bare feet , and the rejection of royal insignia have enough in common with Cnut 's behaviour to indicate that he responded to what he heard preached .
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