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

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1 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 .
2 It is , I suppose , one manifestation of man 's indomitable urge to ‘ have it both ways at once ’ .
3 He really can not have it both ways .
4 She could n't have it both ways .
5 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 .
6 Rooney can not have it both ways .
7 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 … ’
8 You ca n't have it both ways .
9 They can not have it both ways and , at the moment , by making such demands they are unwittingly pushing the game towards professionalism .
10 Apparently one can not have it both ways .
11 You ca n't have it both ways . ’
12 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 .
13 Could it have it both ways ?
14 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 .
15 Critics of regulation from the standpoint of economic theory can not have it both ways .
16 ‘ Letting the man have it both ways at once .
17 Did n't the Anglicans try and have it both ways ?
18 The Minister can not have it both ways .
19 Well , you ca n't have it both ways .
20 He could n't have it both ways .
21 He can not have it both ways .
22 They claim that they have a mandate for doing that , too , but they can not have it both ways .
23 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 .
24 The Secretary of State can not have it both ways .
25 He can not have it both ways .
26 The Opposition can not have it both ways .
27 I mean you ca n't have it both ways
28 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 .
29 Now you ca n't have it both ways , surely ?
30 previous track record in Europe , and Councillor , you ca n't have it both ways .
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