Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] in [adj] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What these various movements had in common was that they provoked confrontations , first in the [ United States and then to a lesser extent in Britain , which highlighted features of law and its enforcement that made academic , positivist criminology look ; extremely complacent and conservative . |
| 2 | The big factor that all these illnesses and health problems have in common is that they are virtually non-existent among Third World communities , living on what-grows-naturally in age-old traditional ways . |
| 3 | The most important differences are those to be found between individuals , rather than between groups or categories This seems to imply that the one thing Shetlanders have in common is that they Are All different from one another , and that their common identity as Shetlanders is something that emerges only when they contrast themselves to people from the south . |
| 4 | What the following thrillers have in common is that each is a rattling good read , and together they are the cream ( 1939 , as will be seen , being a particularly creamy year ) of their genre , leading you on to other delights . |
| 5 | What all three things have in common is that they were caused by autumn . |
| 6 | The one thing all lekking species have in common is that , apart from mating with the female , the male bird plays no part whatsoever in raising the young . |
| 7 | Indeed , the main thing that the reef-building creatures have in common is that they are sessile , and produce limestone skeletons , and when they die , the skeletons stay behind . |
| 8 | What left-wing historians regret in particular is that the emergence of this new ‘ popular culture ’ came at precisely the moment when conditions were favouring the development of a radical working-class political consciousness . |
| 9 | It gradually becomes apparent to every adolescent male that the only thing most penises have in common is that they are the wrong shape or size as far as their owners are concerned . |
| 10 | The one thing its citizens have in common is that God has come into the life of each one and given a love for him and for each other which no human or political institution can ever produce . |
| 11 | The important feature , of course , which our definitions have in common is that the appropriation must be an act done without the authority or consent , express or implied , of the owner . |