Example sentences of "[to-vb] both [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seems to work both in short-term fluctuations and in long-term trends ( Habakkuk 1971 ) , although with an awkward time lag in the latter ( Wrigley and Schofield 1981 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ And in my view there 's still more to come both in mechanised manufacture and in decorating techniques , ’ he added . |
| 3 | The research aims to look both at personal characteristics , such as age and sex , and also at company characteristics , such as the number of employees at the workplace . |
| 4 | This section had its origins in police efforts in the 1930s to deal both with left-wing demonstrators and with Sir Oswald Mosley 's Fascists . |
| 5 | While some studies have concentrated on only one of these measures others have endeavoured to draw conclusions with regard to them both , and it seems important to consider both in any comprehensive review of this issue . |
| 6 | Children would be able to compete both with each other and the machine . |
| 7 | As Balinese ethnography has often been invoked , with questionable accuracy , in recent theoretical argument , the research aims to contribute both to this discussion and to our more general understanding of the effects of development and of incorporation within a new nation state on indigenous populations . |
| 8 | Epicurus introduced the famous ‘ swerve ’ into the chain of strict causality , so as to account both for human free will and also for the existence of random motion in the universe ; for otherwise all bodies would , in his opinion , fall with the same speed downwards . |
| 9 | It is certainly possible to argue both on empirical and on conceptual grounds that there are institutions — for example , German or Swedish universities — which are not autonomous , but offer academic freedom to their academics . |
| 10 | In the short term this did result in a reduction in capacity , leading many observers to criticise BR for short-sightedness in view of the need to attract new traffic in readiness for the opening of the Channel Tunnel , but during 1988 the Dover-Dunkerque service received a boost when Railfreight Distribution commissioned a new high-capacity ferry , the Nord — Pas de Calais , to cater both for individual wagonload consignments and for trainload traffic on this route . |