Example sentences of "have [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 He has just the one daughter and that girl has given him great cause for concern .
2 This project would not have achieved what it has without the professional generosity and sense of professional responsibility of the language and service disciplines .
3 Whatever the reason he has neither the spiritual character nor the material resources to redeem Ruth .
4 The underlying position remains one in which most of the rural population i.e. three quarters of the total , is able to feed itself adequately , but has neither the surplus labour nor the technology to make big strides in productivity .
5 Dublin has neither the artistic inheritance nor the financial resources to better such extravagances .
6 Bush stated that the USA had assumed the " burden of leadership " in confronting the aggression of Iraq , because " among the nations of the world , only the United States of America has had both the moral standing and the means to back it up " .
7 This will have exactly the opposite effect and they will then be able to relax without appearing to have insulted a host 's favourite pet .
8 The covenantee can not have both the promised performance and some other performance which he agrees to accept .
9 Pauli 's exclusion principle says that two similar particles can not exist in the same state , that is , they can not have both the same position and the same velocity , within the limits given by the uncertainty principle .
10 However , division has a fundamental advantage , which is the reason for its good performance : no two records in any single section into which the key sequence is ‘ cut ’ by division can interfere with any other in the same section , because no two different numbers can have both the same quotient and the same remainder .
11 Those people may have roughly the same income and circumstances and they may all be able to bear the same burden .
12 To catch one accidentally does n't have quite the same distinction or achievement , even so its capture should count .
13 Sometimes the simple national ensign is no longer enough : in Corsica , now going through a violent secessionist campaign , it is advisable to have both the French ensign and the Corsican flag .
14 If he wishes to accept the principle of the Bill , surely it is within his powers , when it reaches another place , to have either the long title or the short title amended and to bring in an amendment on a broader basis within the Bill 's scope .
15 Lying flat , my naked chest against the cold concrete I fought with the thing till my eyes popped and my breath gave out , but it had not the slightest effect and it made my mind up ; I had to tell him .
16 But Kylie had just the right look and style and character .
17 Against Protestant tendencies to emphasize the priesthood of all believers , Catholic scholars would reaffirm , as Bellarmine did , that many believers had neither the spiritual capacity nor the mental endowment to protect themselves from literature that might be damaging to faith and prospects for eternity .
18 At industry level there was also a demand by individual firms for association services and technical assistance in applying and interpreting the legislation since ‘ most employers had neither the economic strength nor the managerial skills … to cope by themselves — and simultaneously — with the unions and government apparatus ’ ( Windmüller , 1967 , p.49 ) .
19 When James succeeded his brother Charles as king in 1685 he showed that he was willing to make the power of the Crown more effective in North America by pressing on with the creation of the Dominion of New England , but he had neither the surplus revenue nor the obedient bureaucracy needed to run a system like that applied by continental monarchs .
20 Iain MacLeod appreciated that Britain , in the post-Suez era , had neither the political will nor the military resources to slow the tide of colonial emanicipation ; and so he was prepared , with Macmillan 's whole-hearted support , to accelerate the process , despite opposition from the right wing of the Conservative Party .
21 Nevertheless , as with the complex issue of land reform , there appeared no evidence that the Aquino government had either the political will or the reserves of public confidence to undertake a programme of comprehensive structural reform .
22 items consisted of two pairs of hands which were either similarly or differently orientated , and pairs of faces which had either the same expression or a different one .
23 Living side by side with them in those forests are a great many extremely interesting creatures that are not unique to the Oriental Region but have much the same lifestyle and some of the same physical characteristics .
24 These words are of significance as they tie in with the title ‘ Futility ’ because all three words have basically the same meaning and their use enhances this feeling of futility throughout the poem for the reader .
25 And what happens in actual human situations which are what get me , and I 'm going to give you three and I guarantee their genuineness you will doubt them all I have not the least fear but I guarantee you their genuineness , they come from the records of Age Concern Scotland of which I am the president .
26 The Czech orchestra were by this time a pretty good ensemble , and have just the right timbre and tonal blend for Dvořák .
27 ( These people who have both the primary disease and the family disease are somewhat less than ingenuously referred to as " double winners " . )
28 In this paper he pointed out that the problem was not to explain why his thin fibres were strong , since a single chain of atoms must , inescapably , have either the theoretical strength or none at all , but rather to explain why the thicker fibres were weak .
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