Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [conj] both [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that the round tombs are a reference back to a very ancient and primitive type of house , long-since abandoned except for tomb architecture , or they may be an exotic , a design imported from a foreign land where both tombs and houses were round . |
| 2 | While the main focus of the Survey is on basic payments it is nevertheless a crucial benchmark because both bonus and overtime payments are to an extent determined by the basic or standard wage . |
| 3 | On these islands the sailor has long featured as a national paradox as both saint and sinner , as both saviour and scamp , as both hero and victim of oppression . |
| 4 | We all had a great day and both Russell and Ellen were really pleased with the results . |
| 5 | We have , therefore , two possibilities to offer at this stage of our thinking : a simultaneous approach offering a mixture of BSL and English presented concurrently by teacher and pupil , or a bilingual approach where both BSL and English are accepted and used as separate languages . |
| 6 | It was a good home but both Richard , who was a bearded gentleman , and Bessie were rather strict . |
| 7 | In 1957 a British inventor called Cyril Walter Kenward had filed a patent on an industrial robot that both Unimation and AMf had infringed . |