Example sentences of "[vb infin] it both [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Well you ca er as with most academic questions , you can see it both ways .
2 But one can not have it both ways : for UK wastes ( the import of wastes for landfill is now outlawed ) the options are landfill or incineration , and people local to either hate the one near them .
3 It is , I suppose , one manifestation of man 's indomitable urge to ‘ have it both ways at once ’ .
4 He really can not have it both ways .
5 She could n't have it both ways .
6 Much of this could be as plausibly argued today as thirty or more years ago : the extraordinary achievement of the public relations advisers who replaced the ‘ ludicrous courtiers ’ has been to ensure that the royal family do still have it both ways .
7 Rooney can not have it both ways .
8 As he reached the door , with a variety of helpful obstructions he shouted his Parthian shot — ‘ You ca n't bloody have it both ways … ’
9 You ca n't have it both ways .
10 They can not have it both ways and , at the moment , by making such demands they are unwittingly pushing the game towards professionalism .
11 Apparently one can not have it both ways .
12 You ca n't have it both ways . ’
13 But countries can not have it both ways : the cost of a cleaner environment may sometimes be fewer jobs in dirty industries , which will migrate to less environmentally sensitive lands .
14 Could it have it both ways ?
15 Sociologists can not have it both ways : either Freud has to be examined alongside the founders of sociology , or they all have to be dismissed as unscientific thinkers .
16 Critics of regulation from the standpoint of economic theory can not have it both ways .
17 ‘ Letting the man have it both ways at once .
18 Did n't the Anglicans try and have it both ways ?
19 The Minister can not have it both ways .
20 Well , you ca n't have it both ways .
21 He could n't have it both ways .
22 He can not have it both ways .
23 They claim that they have a mandate for doing that , too , but they can not have it both ways .
24 The Labour party can not have it both ways : it attacks the system either because it expects people to claim or because it requires a register .
25 The Secretary of State can not have it both ways .
26 He can not have it both ways .
27 The Opposition can not have it both ways .
28 I mean you ca n't have it both ways
29 Further , employers could not have it both ways ; if they sought summary conviction before justices of the peace , they could hardly have had penalties of a harshness imposable only by the courts .
30 Now you ca n't have it both ways , surely ?
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