Example sentences of "[be] [adv] a [adj] and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Placed next to each other , the documents are both a territorial and a political contradiction ; one is proof of the existence of Israel , the other carries with it the dream of Palestine . |
| 2 | And in labelling the former causes ‘ accidents ’ , Plekhanov implies that they are both an unpredictable and a comparatively unimportant part of the explanation of the course of historical events . |
| 3 | The ‘ displacement ’ has been both a demographic and a cognitive recentring , a ‘ displacement from cause to effect ’ ( 117/119,118/120,172/174 ) . |
| 4 | It may well be the case — as some commentators have observed , perhaps unduly cynically — that the economic and political situation in 1979 was such that it mattered little what the government tried to control as long as they showed determination and resolve to control something ; the money supply happened to be both a convenient and a relevant variable at that time . |
| 5 | While generally true this does not solve the difficulty in the case of John and Ruth since each of them may claim to be both a theoretical and a practical authority . |
| 6 | A new regulatory system to react to qualified audit reports would be both an excessive and a less effective response . |
| 7 | Being both an exotic and a carnivore , it has started out with a double disadvantage , and sections of the rural population hate it with an intensity normally reserved for foxes or , worse , polecats . |
| 8 | There is usually a better and a worse spot to stand and fight . |
| 9 | There 's still a one and a half hour gap to be accounted for , and any link between Pinder and Dominic Wetherby would change the emphasis completely . |
| 10 | That is partly a technical and a psychological matter . |
| 11 | Editing is both a good and a bad thing in a sense . |
| 12 | In the English perception , empiricism is both a descriptive and a prescriptive term . |
| 13 | ‘ Ultra Violet ’ is both a brave and a foolhardy step . |
| 14 | It is both a biological and a psychological experience and is influenced by factors such as age , sex , personality and previous experience and expectations . |
| 15 | In particular , it accepts his claim that comprehension is both an integrative and a constructive process . |
| 16 | There is both an exultant and a suffering note in the return of the destructive dove which is also the Christian bird of Incarnation whose message for both individual and society , parish and city , is driven home in the famous anthem passage when ‘ The dove descending breaks the air . ’ |
| 17 | Of course , this was both a political and a disciplinary measure . |
| 18 | The affair was both a personal and a professional humiliation and she looked as though she could cry . |
| 19 | In his racing days , Clay was both a crazy and a hard man . |
| 20 | Now , on any view , this was both an inadequate and a misleading indication to the driver of the nature of his right under section 8(2) and what the exercise of that right would involve and I agree entirely with the decision of the Divisional Court allowing the defendant 's appeal from his conviction of an offence under section 5 by justices based on the admission in evidence of the breath specimen . |
| 21 | Yet for them crusading necessitated no large leap of the imagination , no millenarian vision ; it was simply a challenging and a deserving extension of their everyday activities . |