Example sentences of "[prep] both [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 He took advantage of both a feudal and a monarchical position , treating Frederick as a vassal of the papacy as well as emphasizing his papal rights of protecting a minor .
2 In many cases , a material may exhibit the characteristics of both a liquid and a solid and neither of the limiting laws will adequately describe its behaviour .
3 Fieldwork is based in Sheffield , and is designed to gather information of both a quantitative and a qualitative nature .
4 The previous chapter and the present one have examined in detail the operation of both a fixed and a floating exchange rate system .
5 The objections are of both a constitutional and a financial nature .
6 It should be noted that the Directive applies to trades , businesses and professions of both a public and a private nature , so that state owned enterprises are included within its ambit .
7 For both a practical and a theoretical reason I shall concentrate on describing those influences in terms of just four varieties : Standard British English , London English ( henceforth LE ) , Jamaican Standard English and Jamaican Creole ( henceforth JC ) , with emphasis on just two of these , LE and JC .
8 In the larger of the two rooms here , there is a whole sequence of a dozen , undated , mostly oil on cotton duck paintings that end with both a large and a small version of Birch Trees .
9 From that time to this Kiev has evolved , like Naples or Boston , into both a great and a provincial city .
10 Following his failure to buy or seize Socotra , Haines convinced the government of Bombay that Aden could be made into both a strategic and a great commercial centre .
11 This conferred a sense of order on village life , a sense of ‘ place ’ , in both a geographical and a social sense , which could be recognized and accepted as an immutable fact of life .
12 This conferred a sense of order on village life , a sense of ‘ place ’ , in both a geographical and a social sense , which could be recognized and accepted as an immutable fact of life .
13 Moreover , when they do occur they are more often allowed to operate in territories ( in both a spatial and a policy sense ) in which others ' intervention is limited .
14 A Lakatosian research programme is a structure that provides guidance for future research in both a positive and a negative way .
15 For example , a trip to the Barringtons , a group of villages in the Cotswolds left to ruin by the local landowner rather than allow the houses to be purchased by or let to ex-urbanites , will show that the ‘ loss of community ’ in both a Physical and a social sense , has not been caused by newcomers moving in .
16 But it was an extension that in the first instance was of greatest benefit to the middle classes , who were , in both a social and a transportation sense , the mobile classes .
17 The importance of the riots in pushing the law and order issue , and specifically policing , on to the main political agenda was emphasized by the Liberal leader , David Steel , who argued that ‘ urgent action ’ to prevent a drift into lawlessness was necessary from both a moral and a political perspective ( Hansard , vol. 13 , 26 November 1981 : cols. 1009–11 ) .
18 It adds that it expects to quote eps on both a pre-exceptional and a post-extraordinary basis .
19 So , too , was his teaching , an activity which he found invigorating , and which on both a public and a private place took up a great deal of his life , from 1905 until 1918 at the Westminster Art School , and subsequently at a wide range of other institutions .
20 Once in this condition , you will usually experience an increased sense of well being , on both a physical and a mental level .
21 Exceptional restructuring costs resulted in an overall loss for the year on both an historical and a replacement cost basis .
22 However , after exceptional items we reported losses on both an historical and a replacement cost basis in 1992 .
23 There was also an interest in integrating local authorities more closely with the developing machinery for economic management at both a regional and a national level .
24 Spatial differentiation in political activity has become increasingly marked , at both a national and a local scale .
25 These themes are alive and well in British child care policy at both a national and a local level .
26 BISHOP JOHN CROWLEY writes of Bishop Harris : With everyone else I share a sense of gratitude to him for all that he has given to the church at both a diocesan and a national level during his 14 years as bishop here .
27 With everyone else I share a sense of gratitude to him for all that he has given to the church at both a diocesan and a national level during his 14 years as bishop here .
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