Example sentences of "have the [adj] and " in BNC.

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1 The person with , say , the pinched and nasal accents of the English Midlands is no worse than the one whose language has the rounded and lordly ring of London 's Knightsbridge , merely different .
2 She 's now 18 months old … but she has the mental and physical age of a 6 month old child .
3 It is no coincidence that the areas of greatest prosperity in late twentieth-century Britain correspond to the civil area of the Roman province : at no time since the withdrawal of the Romans from Britain in AD 410 has the economic and political relationship with continental Europe been so close .
4 Put bluntly , the Lexus has the smoothest and most refined drivetrain in existence .
5 While Britain probably has the best and the worst press in the world , the latter had convinced many that ‘ you 're going to stitch them up .
6 Vignemale has the best and most photogenic of the Pyrenean glaciers , on its eastern or left-hand flank , a genuine tongue of ice , reaching downwards .
7 To cap it all TER has the richer and more atmospheric sound .
8 Vicki will be trying to repeat her double 1991 success in the junior and senior open women 's 200m individual medley while Laura has the junior and senior women 's 50m freestyle trophies at stake .
9 But if you have a machine based on an 8088/86 then you can fit an 8087 , a 286 has the 287 and the 386 has the 387DX and 387SX .
10 I always think it would fit in as well in the Mediterranean as in the North Atlantic , because it has the black and white colouring common among all sorts of species of northern bird , and the brightly coloured bill and feet typical of birds that live in hot countries .
11 It has the old and the new , and it has industry and agriculture .
12 ‘ No , a guy by the name of Jimmy Velvet has a museum ; he has the original and the body 's busted on it .
13 ‘ It is now well-established that any application of the best evidence rule is confined to cases in which it can be shown that the party has the original and could produce it but does not . ’
14 This approach , of course , has the added and considerable value of involving the users of the systems ( doctors , nurses , managers ) in specifying what they want to get from it .
15 UNICEF has the widest and most varied range of stationery lots of all purpose cards in all sorts of styles , plus handsome stationery sets with designs based on blankets woven by the Navajo Indians .
16 Also capable of supporting offshore operations in severe environments the vessel has the safest and most modern saturation diving sustem available for underwater operations including accommodation for an 18-person dive team .
17 We look so closely and with such moralistic scrutiny at the religious content of sects , and the habit of mind that imagines that it alone has the full and unique expression of the faith , that we fail to notice what they have to offer .
18 According to the Mail on Sunday , John Major is telling friends that Blair is ‘ the most formidable debater and has the quickest and most dangerous mind ’ on the Opposition benches .
19 The study will consider whether privatisation has the social and political effects which have sometimes been claimed for it .
20 Realistically , South Africa is the only country in the southern hemisphere which has the commercial and playing infrastructure to host a World Cup on its own .
21 The former has the longest and most consistent record of prosperity .
22 Recession , therefore , has the unfortunate and cumulative effect of working backwards .
23 Taft and Ross ( 1969:221 ) point out that ‘ The United States has had the bloodiest and most violent labor history of any industrial nation in the world . ’
24 She had experienced her mother as a distant figure who at times just grabbed her and moved her about , but she had not had the physical and emotional closeness that she craved and needed .
25 These will have had a firm foundation in play and the talk that accompanies it , particularly if the learner has had the social and material opportunities provided by playgroup or nursery school .
26 Another benefit of renting is that landlords take care of maintenance work to your property , which can be very expensive , and you do not have the legal and other fees involved in buying and selling houses .
27 However , in some intra-state conflicts local elites may have the legal and administrative expertise and capacity to ignore or alter central elite policies , though for limited periods .
28 An Iraq permitted to swallow Kuwait would have the economic and military power , as well as the arrogance , to intimidate and coerce its neighbours — neighbours who control the lion 's share of the world 's remaining oil reserves .
29 The new Governor will have the high-profile and delicate role of overseeing the handover of the colony to China in 1997 .
30 You did n't have the baffling and separation then ; everybody would get as close together as they could .
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