Example sentences of "[vb pp] both [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was designed both to decentralise the delivery of services through mini-town halls , and to generate local plans which would feed into an overall local authority or corporate plan spanning a four-year period . |
| 2 | The 1918 Maternity and Child Welfare Act may have been designed both to satisfy the lobby and assuage opposition from powerful vested interests to a Ministry of Health , and it may have lacked prescriptive power ( Rowan 1985 ) , but it did provide a more formal institutional framework for health provision and an extension of state funding . |
| 3 | It would therefore have followed civilized custom if the government of the United States had sought both to relieve the burden of the disaster on all those affected by it and to pursue and punish those responsible . |
| 4 | As cost was the most important consideration of port users when determining port of call and as labour costs typically account for 60 to 70 per cent of operating costs , employers have sought both to reduce the size of their workforces and improve the utilisation of the labour that remains . |
| 5 | In 1983 moves were made both to strengthen the powers of the Comptroller and to strengthen the links between him and the Commons . |
| 6 | Since the quarrel which put the kingdoms of France and England at odds with each other was based upon historical differences , it was only reasonable that history should also have been used both to emphasise the differences between them , and to allow each to show itself how its own history and its own characteristics had developed . |
| 7 | In a country where public education is sketchy , it is a double tragedy that TV air time is not used both to teach the three ‘ R's and supplement the four hours per day schooling . |
| 8 | The reforms which might be expected from this theoretical starting-point are moves towards market mechanisms or some surrogate for them which can be used both to influence the behaviour of bureaucrats by giving them a different set of incentives , and to increase the range of choice available to the consumers of public — in this case particularly local government — services . |
| 9 | We , in Norfolk , are exceptionally proud that their determined effort and hard work has enabled both to pass the exam in only eighteen months of training . |
| 10 | Private contractors , appointed both to supply the food and to staff and run the ‘ shore ’ depots , seriously underestimated problems such as the relentless , unforgiving intensity of the railway timetable — very different from their airline experience where there are far more carpets under which to sweep catering delays . |