Example sentences of "[adj] on both [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It 's entertaining on both levels
2 Pretoria was wrong on both counts .
3 Unfortunately , the Alkali Inspectorate was wrong on both counts .
4 This proves them wrong on both counts .
5 Because I can assure you that you are entirely wrong on both counts . ’
6 But , just for the record , you 're wrong on both counts . ’
7 They are wrong on both counts . ’
8 He was wrong on both points then and he is wrong now .
9 Though entirely English on both sides of his family , he was born in Buenos Aires in 1907 , where his father had gone out to establish a branch of Unilever .
10 Casualties were high on both sides .
11 She is popular on both sides of the Commons , and has some support from Conservative MPs who would like to see a woman Speaker .
12 A few sinuous ridges are seen , steep on both sides , and these too may have been raised by interior contraction .
13 Also standard on both cars is power steering , perhaps a touch too heavy on the G60 , a touch too light and rubbery on the Calibra .
14 At the other extreme is Switzerland , characterized as consensual on both dimensions ; a strongly federal state with power shared centrally among several parties .
15 At one extreme were the countries characterized as majoritarian on both dimensions : in both the United Kingdom and New Zealand , for example , power is concentrated into the majority party ; n a two-party ( or virtually so ) system , where rule occurs without a written constitution and with no dispersal of power to subsidiary governments .
16 There were mounted men spilling out of the defiles and patches of dead ground on both sides of the plain .
17 All the association 's leaflets make extensive use of mdf , a fibreboard that handles like solid wood , and is stable and smooth on both sides .
18 The leaves are long , narrow , reddish-brown and smooth on both sides .
19 They may be less than satisfactory on both counts .
20 We know that customers want competition and that 's why we 're all for it , provided that it 's equal on both sides of the Atlantic ’ it declared .
21 It 's going down and every time it goes down it 's equal on both sides yeah .
22 Output level was on course at a nicely accurate 2.075 volts , equal on both channels .
23 It certainly is thin : the neck profile is virtually flat on both sides .
24 The functionalist approach seems to be inadequate on both counts .
25 Further , the term suggests its user is indicating a type of political neutrality towards the events , an indefinable right and wrong existing on both sides of the conflict .
26 Gaelic on both sides of the cafeteria counter .
27 SPAIN is the latest launchpad for Operation BlueLine — an all-out assault on the fishing vessel paint market which is netting results for International on both sides of the Atlantic .
28 Herodotus can not bring himself to believe in a story which gives as the cause of centuries of rivalry ‘ nothing worse than woman-stealing on both sides ’ ( 42 ) , for he does not think the Greeks could possibly have gone to war over anything so trivial , and indeed he appears to concur with the Persian view that ‘ no young woman allows herself to be abducted if she does not wish to be ’ ( 42 ) .
29 This can be very helpful on both sides , as their advice can be asked and issues discussed in a way that girls may not be able to do with their parents or anyone else .
30 It is not quite so important to duplicate the reel , but it is still wise , if only for the fact that your spare spools are interchangeable on both reels .
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