Example sentences of "be both an [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in labelling the former causes ‘ accidents ’ , Plekhanov implies that they are both an unpredictable and a comparatively unimportant part of the explanation of the course of historical events . |
| 2 | A new regulatory system to react to qualified audit reports would be both an excessive and a less effective response . |
| 3 | Being both an exotic and a carnivore , it has started out with a double disadvantage , and sections of the rural population hate it with an intensity normally reserved for foxes or , worse , polecats . |
| 4 | In particular , it accepts his claim that comprehension is both an integrative and a constructive process . |
| 5 | There is both an exultant and a suffering note in the return of the destructive dove which is also the Christian bird of Incarnation whose message for both individual and society , parish and city , is driven home in the famous anthem passage when ‘ The dove descending breaks the air . ’ |
| 6 | Now , on any view , this was both an inadequate and a misleading indication to the driver of the nature of his right under section 8(2) and what the exercise of that right would involve and I agree entirely with the decision of the Divisional Court allowing the defendant 's appeal from his conviction of an offence under section 5 by justices based on the admission in evidence of the breath specimen . |