Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] both the [adj] and " in BNC.

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1 I won both the 100 and the 200 metres and achieved a great deal of satisfaction from the double .
2 I won both the 60 and 200 metres , but it was in the final event , the relay , that I received my greatest fillip .
3 Most of the nuclear increases result from cost increases by British Nuclear Fuels , the reprocessing body which supplies both the civil and military atomic programme .
4 Neither is it necessary to have what is known as a ‘ spiritual experience ’ — a single moment in time when the individual has a sense of himself and of the world in a way which transcends both the physical and the psychological .
5 The panels therefore are a contribution by the guidance staff to a total school philosophy which includes continuous assessment , a school-based certificate in years three and four which covers both the cognitive and affective domains and which is wholly positive in its comments , and mixed-ability teaching in years one and two .
6 Development Policy towards women in less developed countries has changed from one which saw them only as mothers , to a more holistic approach which emphasizes both the productive and reproductive roles of Women .
7 He relates this to the state of culture of his own age , facing dangers of over-specialization , which impoverishes both the religious and artistic sensibilities by separating each from the other , so that only ‘ the vestige of manners may be left for those who , having their sensibility uninformed either by religion or by art , … have nothing left but an inherited behaviour which ceases to have meaning ’ .
8 A wound has been defined as an injury which breaks both the outer and inner skin — a bruise or a burst blood-vessel in an eye would not amount to a wound .
9 On balance the findings suggest that successful treatment requires a comprehensive package of services which address both the interpersonal and concrete needs of all family members .
10 Here , however , you confront both the American and Japanese companies at their most aggressive and on familiar turf .
11 But this chorus of praise has been cancelled out by opponents who question both the fiscal and museological sense of the transaction .
12 Certificates will be awarded only to those who pass both the Written and Oral Tests within not more than 12 months of each other .
13 We investigated both the common and the unique elements of these various images .
14 After some bartering they acquired both the nude and a splendid portrait of a servant girl for five hundred francs .
15 He attacked both the British and the Russians for their " imperialist " policies in Iran and called for a free , independent Iran with a constitutional monarchy .
16 Eataine 's control of the straits of Lothern makes it unique in Ulthuan because it straddles both the Inner and Outer Kingdoms .
17 Here Owen set about the great social reforms which made New Lanark for a time one of the most celebrated places in Britain ; he improved both the working and the living conditions of those on whose labour he depended , and proposed a system of universal co-operation in industry in place of the misery of exploitation .
18 In 1695 , he toured both the Inner and the Outer Hebrides , visiting many of the islands personally .
19 The clothing industry , including flax , had flourished because it supplied both the Tsarist and the Red Armies which trampled through Belorussia .
20 The more dedicated among them combed both the cultivated and wild places of the world in search of novelties and in doing so a good number of them lost their lives , in some cases in tragic circumstances .
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