Example sentences of "and have [art] [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Jean Francois Poitevin , who finished third last year and has a best time of 1:32:22 , has pulled out in protest .
2 This nematode haemoglobin is chemically similar to myoglobin and has the highest affinity for oxygen of any known animal haemoglobin .
3 Her father , whom she obviously dotes on and has the highest respect for , thinks he 's a highly suspicious character — he and Andropulos have n't spoken for years .
4 Despite a piddling little incident in Aberdeen in 1989 when he was reported to the Procurator Fiscal for what the law delicately describes as ‘ a public nuisance offence ’ , Nicholas began to re-build his reputation at Aberdeen , a city whose heritage was built on fish and has the highest concentration of chip shops in Scotland .
5 Our rail network is the lowest funded , the lowest staffed and has the lowest investment programme in Europe with the poorest quality service and the fastest declining level of safety , but B R has the highest fares .
6 The construction industry in Northern Ireland is not in a disastrous decline — private house building has maintained its growth rate and has the best record anywhere in the country .
7 Each format has its own cassette design ( anticlockwise from top ) : VHS is the largest in size and has the longest runtime of up to four hours ( PAL ) ; VHS-C cassettes are more compact but the runtime is reduced to a maximum of 1 ½ hours ( Long Play ) ; Video 8 has the smallest cassettes but runs for up to four hours ( LP ) .
8 The first mode p = 1 represents translation of the molecule as a whole and has the longest relaxation time τ 1 because the maximum number of co-ordinated segmental movements are involved .
9 Conversely , in Haringey , despite being capped and having the highest poll tax in the country , there was a 1.4% swing to Labour .
10 The City was shocked when it learned that the Midland was the least profitable of the big four banks and had the weakest capital .
11 Mainly because the stewards had become involved in the incentive er scheme working er and had the best idea you know of how to set times and tooling and everything else .
12 Yet we defended well and had the best first-half chance .
13 Working at the top end of the market as he did , Roche was taking on the most difficult assignments , but they were also the most remunerative and had the greatest publicity value .
14 It turned out that our candidate , who came to address us one evening , knew my Aunt Kit and had the greatest admiration for her , even though he also knew that the only reason why she had not been offered another , safer constituency after 1945 was that it had become too obvious she was unable to keep off the drink .
15 According to a commentary on the report , Northern Ireland Crime Statistics , published by the Northern Ireland Office , the province was the ninth most peaceful in terms of crimes of violence against the person and had the lowest rate in the country for theft .
16 He was driving over to Liverpool to score and had the youngest lad with him .
17 I looked in and had the biggest shock of my life .
18 ‘ I have n't any serious plans to marry him , if that 's what you 're asking , ’ she told him as levelly as she could , and had the hardest work in the world in hanging on to her temper when his glance flicked from her through the open door into her sitting-room .
19 I do not think that the Labour party has anything to crow about , because Labour-controlled local authorities have the most empty homes available and have the highest community charges .
20 Norwood , Massachusetts-based Microcom Inc reports that it has been granted a patent for the Microcom Networking Protocol Class 10 feature , called Aggressive Adaptive Packet Assembly : the feature improves data link transmission performance by pro-actively adapting the size of data packets to line conditions — MNP 10 enables modems to connect , stay connected and have the highest transmission possible , regardless of the line conditions .
21 A little mischief in it , Hugh judged , content to be an onlooker and have the best view of the game , but no malice .
22 An agency is undoubtedly the forum where you will gain the best all-round experience in your career , and have the biggest chance of rising to the top in the advertising business .
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