Example sentences of "[vb pp] both the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A study of the 1961 hurricane " Carla " and the 1963 hurricane " Cindy " in the southern United States showed that they had considerably modified both the form of the affected coastline and the distribution of sediments there . |
| 2 | Since then , this committee has organised both the sing and the musical festival . |
| 3 | Their untrained but nervous eyes , and rumour , vastly exaggerated both the ferocity and size of the advancing army . |
| 4 | Only one horse , Mandarin , has won both the Gold Cup and the ‘ Grand Steep ’ as it is affectionately known . |
| 5 | In addition to winning the governorships in Lagos and Cross River , the NRC also won both the assembly and gubernatorial polls in five south-eastern states . |
| 6 | Alan Llwyd , who has himself won both the chair and crown of the National Eisteddfod twice in three years , worked on the screen adaptation of research he carried out for a blockbusting book on Hedd Wyn 's life . |
| 7 | The solution to these two difficulties was provided by the trust , which at a stroke solved both the problem of third-party involvement and that of enforcement . |
| 8 | The young woman had visited both the museum and the castle before and had looked down from their heights onto the epidemic of streets below , between the top of the hill and the broad curve of the Bay . |
| 9 | Barcelona only released Koeman after the Dutch Football Federation had threatened both the club and the Spanish FA with legal action over a clause which stipulates the number of matches for which their foreign-based players have to be released during the season . |
| 10 | By his retirement in the early 1870s Mayall had transferred both the firm and his wealth to his sons . |
| 11 | The latest row , over which should own the Crimea-based Black Sea fleet , has revealed both the strength of irredentist feeling in Moscow and the depth of animosity in Kiev towards the northern neighbour . |
| 12 | The more normal condition is that it will only be available to those shareholders of the target who have accepted both the share offer and the cash alternative not later than the first closing date . |
| 13 | The North American economist , John Kenneth Galbraith , took a distinctly positive view , claiming that the crisis had shown both the revival of industrial technology and the reimposition of civic discipline as demonstrated by the pay pause , in the face of difficulties which might have led feebler nations to buckle under , or even lapse into military or other dictatorships . |
| 14 | The agreement by the County Council to transfer St. Peter 's to the minister was not without irony — the Ministry of Health had grown out of the same succession of poor laws which had produced both the institution and , indeed , local government itself . |
| 15 | The Scuds themselves have been a nuisance , the allies having under-estimated both the number of Iraq 's launchers and the ability of the Iraqi crews to conceal them . |
| 16 | At this stage , you will have drawn both the copper track layout and have separately superimposed the component layout onto it : you can now double check your work thoroughly . |
| 17 | Pulsatilla seemed to cover the case as it now presented and successfully treated both the anxiety and the palpitations . |
| 18 | Then I took off my little gold earrings and felt in the folds of my dress for all the money I 'd saved or stolen from my brother 's pockets over the years , and placed both the money and earrings in the palm of her hand , forcing her fingers shut around them . |
| 19 | The Finance ( No 2 ) Act 1975 made sweeping changes to the law and placed both the contractor and sub-contractor in such a position that tax avoidance was virtually halted . |
| 20 | The UK Health and Safety Executive ( HSE ) has highlighted both the need to maintain safety standards in the face of competing pressures and the importance of organisational factors in preventing accidents inside and outside the nuclear industry . |
| 21 | All titles are short in length ( the inevitable result of the then-available vinyl technology ) , though this is no hardship given both the price and the fascinating nature of much of the music making . |
| 22 | These moves are necessary , given both the democratization of mass consumption and the growth in sophistication and subtlety of the ideological practices of dominant groups in the intervening period . |
| 23 | Similar regulations and procedures have delayed both the promotion and dismissal of staff and have hampered the ZBS by failing to provide it with adequate transport when needed at short notice . |
| 24 | In the aftermath of the events in Derry , Craig , members of the Government and other Unionists strenuously defended both the ban on the march and the actions of the RUC . |
| 25 | It would need a profound belief in providence to make one refrain from wondering why a group of foggy islands off Europe 's north-western shores , populated beyond the means of subsistence that the islands could provide , endowed with no great natural assets outside the coalfields , should have become both the centre of a world empire and a possible arbiter of European rivalries . |
| 26 | Contemporary changes therefore need to be placed in the context of a continuous process of change in English rural society that has affected both the character and the structure of English villages throughout their history . |
| 27 | In the present case , the perception seems to have adversely affected both the quality and climate of professional discourse and the credibility of structures , procedures and people at LEA and school level . |
| 28 | Kirkcaldy is an area which has experienced both the decline of its traditional industries of coal mining and linoleum ( and in an earlier period textiles ) and the advent of new employment opportunities in electronics , light engineering and services . |
| 29 | The presentation had been quite an unnecessary proceeding , as she and Uncle Orrin Tunstall had agreed , seeing that she had met and known both the King and Queen since she was ten years old and had first visited England with her mama and papa . |
| 30 | Ten more years of his pontificate might have set both the church and the statesmanship of western Europe in a different direction . |