Example sentences of "[that] both [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crimes of violence , for example , are by and large one poor person hitting another poor person — and in almost half these instances it is a man hitting his wife or lover … the more vulnerable a person is economically and socially the more likely it is that both working class and white-collar crime will occur against them ( Matthews and Young , 1986 , p. 23 ) . |
| 2 | I am sure he would have considered that both technical accomplishment and , though not perhaps in the modern sense , introspection , were valuable for the poet , but the labour and intense study which you 'll have noticed he referred to in that passage I 've read , consisted of course of learning large numbers of languages , which he clearly did with great fluency , and reading inordinately the whole of human literature . |
| 3 | However , in contrast to the situation in the United States and Germany , recent comparative research has shown that both technical control and corporate paternalism failed to become important long-term strategies in much of British industry in the early part of the present century because of a predominant small-firm structure together with the opposition of well-entrenched unions . |
| 4 | This seems to be a rather narrow and limiting definition , and it could be refuted by pointing out that both subject knowledge and research methodology could equally well be tested by examination , without going to the additional effort of writing a thesis . |
| 5 | Alho et al reported that both gestational age and birth weight were independently associated with wheezy bronchitis . |
| 6 | The important aspect of the relative clause proposal seems to be that both relative clause and postnominal adjective share the characteristics of linking an adjective to its head noun by the relation of assignment , not simple qualification , while remaining within the same entity-identifying phrase as that noun . |
| 7 | It is worth recording , however , that further investigation showed that both acidic paper and detached pages appeared to be significant factors in the assignment of items to Categories 4 and 5 ( the two ‘ worst ’ categories of overall condition ) , since although only 27% of all items requiring repair had loose pages , 43% of those in Category 4 , and 60% in Category 5 were so affected , and although only 18% of all items suffered from apparently acidic paper , 30% of those in Category 4 and 60% in Category 5 suffered from this defect . |