Example sentences of "both [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On that occasion he had made a case both for a tutor-organiser to increase provision for trade unionist students and also for one to develop work in the New Towns of Harlow , Stevenage , Hemel Hempstead and Hatfield . |
| 2 | Also , portraits of individual children are far more common in the eighteenth century than in the seventeenth , again arguing both for a change in fashionable attitudes , and also , may be , for a greater emotional investment in children by parents . |
| 3 | The nuns and their secular sisters have a common task ; we share a common quest both for a way forward and for appropriate role models . |
| 4 | We ourselves were quite lucky with holiday weather , both for a week on the Beauly Firth , a week with Richard in Telford ( outstanding museums and the Shropshire Hills ) , and a weekend in the Lake District with Rob . |
| 5 | Did n't want to go home , and he took them both for a walk . |
| 6 | I think modelling and the movies are connected in that they 're both about a dream . |
| 7 | This bald statement conceals much dispute about the exact relation between a cause and its effect , about the right way to define ‘ cause ’ , and about the nature of causality , both as a concept and in the world . |
| 8 | The elections , which involved well over a quarter of the electorate , were seen both as a dress rehearsal for the North-Rhine Westphalian Land elections in May next year and as a test of the political mood in the country . |
| 9 | STUART SURRIDGE , who has died aged 74 , was celebrated both as a manufacturer of cricket bats and equipment , and above all as a uniquely successful captain of Surrey County Cricket Club . |
| 10 | We miss her presence at head office — both as a character and a colleague on whom we could rely 100 per cent . |
| 11 | As Worrell 's career came at the same period , the stature he acquired both as a man and a leader gave added impetus and credibility to the black independence movement , especially as cricket is such an important part of Caribbean life . |
| 12 | And , if one accepts the concept that the spirit is journeying through many lifetimes in order to achieve that degree of evolution which makes it unnecessary to spend further time on this earth , then surely it must be essential to experience life both as a man and as a woman . |
| 13 | There was movement that year among all the teams and Pace 's death in March not only upset Brabham plans but also caused Ecclestone , who was very attached to Carlos , both as a man and as a driver , considerable grief . |
| 14 | In this movement , Hegel saw the very rhythm of reality itself , both as a whole and in every part , and also the dynamics of knowledge and understanding by which the initial gulf between subject and object is bridged in genuine synthesis , the act of cognition . |
| 15 | " Englishing " sets store by faithfulness to the content and general structure of the poem ; does not oblige the translator to reproduce the prosody of the original , but does require the choice of something considered to be a metrical equivalent ; allows the translator some licence in supplying figures , metaphors , etc. , in compensation for those too deeply rooted for transplantation from the original language ; relates the translation to current notions of poetic language and form ( as , for example , Dr Johnson chose to put Horace into rhymed couplets , but C.S. Calverley , a contemporary of Tennyson , considered the " In Memoriam " stanza the most effective equivalent ) ; offers , consequently , something to be considered both as a poem from the original and as an original poem ; and attempts , in the widest sense , to place the adopted poem in the nurturing environment of the adoptive culture . |
| 16 | At moments of international success , it serves both as a morale-booster and an exemplar . |
| 17 | These interviews will explore the ways in which patients think about health and illness at a general level , and diabetes in particular , using an approach which depends upon asking the person to recount their personal experiences in the areas of interest , both as a child and as an adult . |
| 18 | It served both as a centre of local trade for its own hinterland , and as a distribution centre for longer-distance trade . |
| 19 | Local government spending has fallen significantly since the middle 1970s both as a proportion of state spending and of national income . |
| 20 | The cases where there is the most sustained coverage are acquittals and yet obtaining an acquittal for this group of offences is a comparatively rare phenomenon , both as a proportion of cases reported in newspapers and what actually happens in the court . |
| 21 | He approved of young Bruce , both as a boy soprano and ambitious junior reporter on the weekly paper . |
| 22 | This makes it possible to present Christianity both as a story and as a part of history , without dogmatism , but also with precision and accuracy . |
| 23 | Whilst independent of any group or school of musical ethos , he nevertheless played a vital role in the development of music this century , both as a composer and teacher , combining exotic rhythms with Western harmonies and a continuous preoccupation with birdsong and Catholicism ; these elements are most effectively combined in his epic St Francis of Assisi , premièred at the Paris Opera in 1983 . |
| 24 | At present several attempts are being made to devise performance indicators which would enable schools to be graded , and serve both as a management tool and as a guide to parents in choosing a school . |
| 25 | The latter has allowed borrowers to take our mortgages that are larger both as a multiple of income and as a proportion of property valuation . |
| 26 | Body weight/obesity — Table I gives the results for initial body weight , expressed both as a percentage of ideal body weight ( %IBW ) and as the body mass index ( BMI:wt/h 2 ) . |
| 27 | Both as a percentage of budget and in real terms accounting for inflation , people are being asked to pay less today than they were in nineteen eighty eight . |
| 28 | Is there enough going for the partners — both as a couple and as individuals — to allow them to relinquish their role as parents ? |
| 29 | Martin Lester had seen the American all-girls team in action and recognised the potential of Rokkaku fighting , both as a sport and a spectator event . |
| 30 | The central location of Carmarthen Bay & Teifi Valley within the context of West Wales means that it is ideally situated both as a touring base and for that special day visit . |