Example sentences of "both [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That report was sent to our national executive committee and on May the nineteenth the leader of the Labour party stated and I quote , the plant committee concludes that different elected bodies can be chosen by different electoral systems , that is the view which I share and I support the proposals made both for a reformed second chamber and the European parliament . |
| 2 | Elizabeth and Harry had been married for ten years , both for a second time . |
| 3 | Caccini was dead but Peri was still composing in 1628 , when he contributed the music for the part of Clori to Marco da Gagliano 's La Flora and produced a work of his own , Jole ed Ercole , both for a ducal wedding in Florence Orpheus was still a favourite subject : witness the Orfeo dolente ( Florence in 1616 ) of Domenico Belli and La morte d'Orfeo , apparently the first opera produced in Rome , before the Papal court ( 1619 ) , by Stefano Landi . |
| 4 | This goal must , surely , be regarded as the very minimum necessary both for a civilised society and for us to begin to secure social justice for this group . |
| 5 | Once again we changed , cut and adapted , both for an American house , and for the shape of the theatre . |
| 6 | Sun is pushing the ISDN interface both as a personal productivity tool and as the basis for more complex voice processing and computer integrated telephony applications . |
| 7 | Secondly , the firm prided itself on speed and efficiency , both as a profitable practice in itself , and as a means of building up a reputation with estate agents . |
| 8 | In his public statements on the dispute Lal portrayed it both as a factional struggle , between himself and members of Janata Dal who had come from the Prime Minister 's Jan Morcha group , and as a conflict between urban politicians and a representative of rural India . |
| 9 | Almost inevitably , the press sought out the centres of political and economic power both as a major definer of the social and political terrain and as a source of information . |
| 10 | This enabled her to see Laura both as a warm and caring friend , but also as a difficult businesswoman . |
| 11 | The very unfamiliarity , now , of the language and concepts of Christianity makes it possible to present these anew both as a moral ideal and an attitude to humanity and the capacities of humanity . |
| 12 | The prevention of unjust enrichment underlies the confiscation legislation both as a moral or ethical justification in itself and as a deterrent to further illegal activity . |
| 13 | Both as a political and diocesan bishop , Roger de Meuland 's record was mediocre . |
| 14 | The ICCD , led by Professor Oreste Ferrari , greatly enhanced the depth and seriousness of cataloguing , which now functions both as a scholarly enterprise and as a means of protecting the country 's heritage in case of damage ( by war , vandalism , earthquake and other natural disasters ) ; decay ( by neglect or pollution ) ; and loss ( by theft or illegal export ) . |
| 15 | The visible link with the past that old buildings give is important both as a fascinating insight into history and as an expression of the relative permanence of civilized society . |
| 16 | The struggles over the Contagious Diseases Acts need to be read both as a feminist challenge to male power and as a battle within the power bloc over the disciplining of the working-class . |
| 17 | I have already disputed Simmonds 's account of interpretation based on authorial intention ( see Chapter 2 ) , but his account of the sociology of knowledge both as a hermeneutic and a critical theory is most interesting . |
| 18 | When the site became available , the University took the opportunity to purchase the long lease for development , both as a public amenity and as accommodation for the Departments of Art History and Music . |
| 19 | Some of what I have to say does in fact apply to literature generally , but much of it is specific to the novel , the literary form in which I am most interested , both as a literary critic and as a practising writer . |
| 20 | In 1983 the company purchased the Palace Theatre in London for £12.3 million , both as a commercial theatre , and as a base for the organisation although a new company headquarters in the West End has recently been purchased for £3.3 million . |
| 21 | MARK DIGNAM was one of England 's foremost actors , both as a juvenile and as a character actor , ready to tackle anything going , from cameo to leading roles , an expert in the classics , above all Shakespeare , and a keen student of modern drama . |
| 22 | Trouble in school is conceived by the pupils who take part in it both as a natural reaction to being in a classroom confronted by a teacher , and as a specific response to particular offences on the part of the teacher . |
| 23 | I gave myself to him completely , both as a human being and as an artist . |
| 24 | Since 1946 the United Nations Educational , Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) has been promoting literacy ‘ both as a human right and as an instrument of liberation and development ’ . |
| 25 | Marx was thus concerned with bureaucracy both as a social formation and as a source of inefficient public service . |
| 26 | ‘ Other firms in other parts of the country have tried this and have found it successful both as a social event and as a promotion . ’ |
| 27 | Both as a conscious decision , because of the business we do er need to be known around the area . |
| 28 | Simon 's burgeoning career at the Medical Office in the 1860s coincided with the consolidation of the status of the medical profession , both as a privileged domain of expertise and as a distinctive cultural grouping within the middle-class . |
| 29 | Nature and God are identified , and are conceived as an infinite reality which exists both as an all comprehensive mind and as an infinitely extended physical system , and in other ways unknown to us , all these being different aspects of one and the same single reality . |
| 30 | The relationship between the size of a dowry and status makes the dowry system easily adaptable to a class society , which means that as the economies of the villages move unevenly towards capitalism the dowry system remains of vital significance both as an essential accompaniment to and a reflection of this change . |