Example sentences of "[verb] both [art] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 A quotation ( provided by Randall Baker , private communication ) from a recent Australian funded cattle ranching scheme in Fiji illustrates both the unquestioned assumption that development must imply modern commercial development and the disparaging attitude towards existing social and economic organisation :
2 Arran himself had joined Beaton and the dowager at the end of 1544 , when they ‘ promised and made bond to the French ambassador , that the French king shall have the young queen , to marry where he list … and also that they shall at the spring of the year , send both the young queen and the old ( Mary of Guise ) into France ’ .
3 Management must always consider both the short- term and longer-term consequences of their actions .
4 These packages will introduce both a European dimension and language learning to the existing course .
5 For example , we may wish to pass both the retail price and the discount percentage .
6 This clearly contravened church teaching : in II Cnut 54.1 Archbishop Wulfstan forbids a priest to minister to a man who has both a rightful wife and a concubine .
7 Land has both an economic function and a function in terms of personal and social esteem :
8 Thus our chosen methods involved both a careful observation and recording of firsthand experience and the development of second-order models .
9 Now of course from the special school point of view they will say well many efforts are made to attempt to bring community life into the school and to have children erm or give them experiences in the community , so that you provide both a sheltered environment and also the opportunity to learn in the wider community , and this debate is something of a dilemma erm I do n't know that any body can give a definite answer to it .
10 In response to this development some teachers of English began to justify the value of their discipline on the grounds that it offered " an opportunity to discover both an individual identity and social role without premature commitment to a profession " .
11 Gavin Tosh , of Fuel Contracts at Peel Park , visited both the Czech Republic and Slovakia recently to discuss the project with representatives of the nuclear industry in both countries .
12 The Lords entered the fray in December with a strong preference for PR as a means of keeping both the Labour party and the Commons in check , so that in January 1918 there were disputes between the two houses as well as between and within the parties .
13 At this date such illustrations were uncommon even in engineering , where drawing was becoming both a serious matter and something like an art form .
14 An approach to the material world — research — can yield both a theoretical alternative and a concrete rebuttal .
15 A weak sun was about to rise , turning the darkness to a dusty grey : their horses plodded along the frozen track , both riders taking special care against the potholes , some as deep as a man , which could bring down and even kill both the unwary rider and his horse .
16 The groups are urging both the Scottish Office and Department of the Environment to match their offer .
17 This can be seen in Fig. 3.13B , where the proportions of mandibles with the ascending ramus totally destroyed are plotted against maxillary damage , and this groups both the tawny owl and snowy owl with the other predator species producing less alteration .
18 ‘ The deal will benefit both the cricketing public and the Benson and Hedges competition , with more matches covered live and viewers enjoying a wider choice during peak hours . ’
19 ‘ The deal will benefit both the cricketing public and the Benson and Hedges competition , with more matches covered live and viewers enjoying a wider choice during peak hours . ’
20 You can either invest both the original sum and interest for another fixed term .
21 WordPerfect word processing software handles both the written word and graphic interpretation with ease .
22 In the 1830s and early 1840s Palmerston was able to handle both the Belgian question and the Near Eastern crises of 1832 – 33 and 1839 – 41 with little interference from parliament , so that in 1839 an acute observer of British politics could say with much justification that " foreign affairs are never discussed except at the House of Lords " .
23 Meetings were accordingly held each week to discuss both the previous game and the tactics to be used in the next .
24 He had spent most of his life in England and admired both the feudal-system efficiency and military skills of the Norman knights who had administered that country since William of Normandy conquered it in 1066 .
25 And I think it 's important to make the distinction that the independent sector includes both the voluntary sector and er , the profit and er , sorry the , not the profit making organizations er , the , the staff of the Agency consists of er , two officers and an admin administrative er , staff , and erm , they have been involved in a variety of er , different activities .
26 Only an idealized observer could see both the inner processing and the causal relations of the symbols to outside objects that give them meaning : no one could actually be that idealized observer , because each observer is confined to operating on the symbols that are within his computational machinery , and this excludes their external causal relations .
27 Even as civil society endlessly displaces corruption from the social body as a whole on to its low life , the latter reveals both the original source and full extent of corruption within the dominant itself ( pp. 16 , 174 ) .
28 Indeed , it would be difficult to cover both a sick man and a dying man in so short a space .
29 This factor … should make the court the more cautious before holding that the defendant had had both a factual possession and animus possidendi sufficient to confer on him a possessory title …
30 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 " .
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