Example sentences of "something in common " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the spectrum of contemporary theory , Marxist symptomatic reading has something in common with the deconstructive reading which discovers in the end , not harmony and organic unity , but contradiction and aporia . |
| 2 | ‘ Literary sensibility ’ is easier to recognize than to define , but it is analogous to having an unusually good ear for music , and has something in common with the creative faculty , even when the critic who possesses it is not an imaginative writer . |
| 3 | In that sense he has something in common with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 4 | Cynthio has something in common with Strephon in ‘ The Mistaken Lover ’ . |
| 5 | Indeed , at a certain point the stories come to seem almost like pauses , moments of reflection perhaps , in a wider discourse that envelopes the written word , such as to make the readers of Celati 's narrative acknowledge something in common with Palomar listening to his blackbirds , uncertain which part of their communication is language , which silence . |
| 6 | The case clearly has something in common with the preceding one . |
| 7 | Planning a school curriculum has something in common with planning a journey . |
| 8 | This means that everyone has something in common with the rest of the group and it leads to a more relaxed and productive social activity . |
| 9 | Did they feel something in common with the rest of the Whirl-Y-Gig clientele ? |
| 10 | If you can choose whom to talk to , pick someone who looks as though they have something in common with you — be it gender , age or an aura of self-effacement similar to the one you are experiencing . |
| 11 | But it needs to be acknowledged here that the feminist concerns just mentioned have something in common with nonfeminist and even anti-feminist concerns in studying sex difference . |
| 12 | If we say that they do have something in common with other things that look white we must remember that their having something in common simply is their looking white . |
| 13 | Furthermore , as far as skinhead paraphernalia is concerned , is n't Morrissey telling his fans ( supposedly alienated from society 's mainstream ) that we may have something in common with the frightening skinheads ? |
| 14 | It has something in common with the rationalism of Richard Price , but provides a kind of general formula for testing the morality of actions as price ( and later Ross ) did not . |
| 15 | Pakistan 's 1992 London Test double , Lord 's and The Oval , was completed inside 10 sessions , and had something in common with the first of their five Test victories in England : in 1954 there was unease at England 's choice of players , Bedser and Bailey being rested , so complacent were the selectors in the face of this new Test entity from far away . |
| 16 | Cooper 's conclusion is that houseproud housewives are ‘ abnormal ’ in the sense that their behaviour has something in common with that of obsessionally ill people . |
| 17 | Hooligans have something in common with nutters in that they both provide the group with a good deal of entertainment . |
| 18 | It 's modestly priced , yet has something in common with a Mercedes , namely low depreciation . |
| 19 | One insists that science has at least something in common with map-making . |
| 20 | This was having something in common with your lover , she thought , remembering the way it had been with Mike , who was interested only in banking and golf and what he called making a home for one 's family . |
| 21 | The new directions to be taken may not be indicated by the diagram , or be unclassifiable by present terminology anyway — but they may have something in common with what is gathered here : ambition and invention , perseverance , independence , wit . |
| 22 | I found I had something in common with all there . |
| 23 | So you 've got something in common with Gordon after all . |
| 24 | Kelsall designed buildings in various styles , including Grecian , of which he published engravings by Henry Moses [ q.v. ] and other artists in Phantasm of an University ( 1814 ) , a book which has something in common with Claude-Nicolas Ledoux 's L'Architecture considérée sous le rapport de l'art , des moeurs , et de la législation ( 1804 ) , with the proposals of Thomas Jefferson for the University of Virginia , and with the founding of London University . |
| 25 | Léger , whose researches had always been more highly personal than those of the other Cubists with whom he showed , and whose art was now becoming more obviously divergent , is also sometimes referred to as an Orphist ; this , however , is understandable since his work did have something in common with Delaunay 's . |
| 26 | This picture of Dreadnought was so wide of the mark that Willis found it better to say nothing , simply making a gesture which had something in common with a petty officer 's salute . |
| 27 | He sounded anxious , but warmed to have something in common with her . |
| 28 | In the explicit limits to their power which they had to accept in some of the areas they ruled ( especially in Hungary and the Basque provinces ) the Habsburgs and the Spanish Bourbons had something in common with the Hanoverians . |
| 29 | Mr Nelson said he felt Banbridge had something in common with Warrington . |
| 30 | It was rather like that strange spirit that hovered over the Wilson family when they were contemplating an evening out and told them where they ought to eat , and it had something in common with whatever it was that told the entire Liverpool football stadium to sing ‘ You 'll Never Walk Alone ’ at the same moment . |