Example sentences of "[vb base] this [prep] common " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Exactly , and remember , art and sport have this in common , they are both means of self-expression . |
| 2 | Eastern Germany and Poland have this in common , even though their exchange-rate policies were quite different . |
| 3 | Two novels , for example , which in other respects are very different , Claudio Piersanti 's Charles ( 1986 ) and the first of Aldo Busi 's three novels published to date , Seminar on Youth ( 1988 ) , have this in common : they both veer between an urban setting whose contemporaneity is underlined by its fashionableness and topicality ( Busi ) or which is vaguely futuristic ( Piersanti ) and a rural , provincial past which , though overtaken by the modern world , still remains extraordinarily alive . |
| 4 | As was pointed out in the previous chapter , the plan of the Victorian house and the Victorian city have this in common : that both are so designed that the few who live on the privileged side of the divide need know nothing of the many who are crowded beyond it into a fraction of the space . |
| 5 | the fact of belonging to the same class , and that of belonging to the same generation or age group , have this in common , that both endow the individuals sharing in them with a common location in the social and historical process , and thereby limit them to a specific range of potential experience , predisposing them for a certain characteristic mode of thought and experience , and a characteristic type of historically relevant action . |