Example sentences of "have [prep] [adj] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feature they came to have in common was occupancy of land in South Kensington purchased with the profits from the 1851 Exhibition at the Crystal Palace . |
| 2 | Masklin would be the first to admit that he was n't too familiar with forms of transport , but what they all seemed to have in common was a front , which was in front , and a back , which was n't . |
| 3 | Teller went to extreme lengths to rescue Part I , but in the words of Robert Oppenheimer , ‘ The programme we had in 1949 was a tortured thing that did not make a great deal of technical sense . |
| 4 | A distinguished philosopher , much admired in the profession , became a celebrity overnight when he wrote in a Sunday paper that what all the varied responses had in common was the forlorn belief that somehow , through talk or action , the decisive event would be warded off . |
| 5 | All the items had in common was dust . |
| 6 | Of the Imperial Camel Corps he would say that it comprised an aristocratic element among its officers and complete ruffians in the ranks ; all they had in common was a disdain for danger . |
| 7 | One thing all the armies had in common was a careful explanation of their presence , a specific mandate set out in such complex detail that officials of the Lebanese Foreign Ministry were sometimes still trying to decipher its true meaning when the army in question was retreating out of Lebanon . |
| 8 | All they had in common was a potential for repelling Mrs Farr . |
| 9 | What they had in common was that they were all perceived by the development officers as requiring a good deal of care in order to be sustained at home , and as not having all those care needs filled by either informal or statutory carers . |
| 10 | What the styles had in common was a number of letter forms . |
| 11 | The only cause they had in common was a refusal to eat meat . |
| 12 | All they had in common was their sense of urgency : the mass hysteria that characterizes the week before Christmas . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But what , in particular , these movements had in common was an evolutionary or organicist method . |
| 15 | What they had in common was , again , an essentially mystical orientation — an insistence on a direct , firsthand , experiential knowledge of God , rather than a scrupulous adherence to dogma and law . |
| 16 | What Athens and Corinth had in common was perhaps the immigrant craftsmen who had been drawn to the cities in the salad days of their respective tyrannies . |
| 17 | The one thing all these Yugoslavs had in common was their fierce opposition to and fear of Tito 's partisans . |
| 18 | What they had in common was what a lot of people have . ’ |
| 19 | What a growing part of agriculture all over the world had in common was subjection to the industrial world economy . |
| 20 | FIVE years ago the only things that Phoenix and Kuwait city had in common were a desert setting and an urban landscape of glittering modern buildings . |