Example sentences of "[v-ing] both [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasing intra-abdominal pressure by straining as if to defecate in control subjects produced a variety of anal pressure waveforms incorporating both anal contraction and anal relaxation ( Table II ) , and corresponding with the external anal sphincter myoelectrical activity . |
| 2 | In the early 1930s he turned his attention towards bibliography , becoming both special lecturer at the London School of Librarianship and joint editor of the important , if short-lived , series Oxford Books in Bibliography , as well as writing his classic , The Beginnings of Systematic Bibliography ( 1935 ) . |
| 3 | The communiqué outlined five principles for drawing up and implementing the five- and 10-year plans : ( i ) " firmly follow the road of building socialism with Chinese characteristics " ; ( ii ) " firmly push forward reform and opening to the outside world " ; ( iii ) " firmly implement the principle of developing the national economy in a sustained , stable and co-ordinated manner " ; ( iv ) " firmly follow the principle of self-reliance , hard struggle and building up the country through thrift and diligence " ; and ( v ) " firmly implement the principle of promoting both material civilization and socialist culture and ethics " . |
| 4 | Dr Burge has valued schemes as a source of research and some universities are now promoting both industrial contact and research experience . |
| 5 | Dr Burge has valued schemes as a source of research and some universities are now promoting both industrial contact and research experience . |
| 6 | These dichotomies can be seen as a way of legitimizing both male superiority and the abuse of science . |
| 7 | Just as the latter is capable of expressing both subsequent actualization and subsequent potentiality , the former can evoke coincident actualization and coincident potentiality . |
| 8 | This is usually termed dynamic hashing ; a particularly useful review of these techniques is given by Sachs-Davies et al. , describing both extendible hashing , in which a set of buckets is referenced via a directory , and linear hashing , which is genuinely a direct technique in that there is no directory . |
| 9 | Australia , after all , shares the problems of other tropical countries — possessing both tropical forest and semi-arid bush . |
| 10 | Only time will tell if this is a serious effort at improving both public sector accountability and overall performance . |
| 11 | In the DOE it also tended to overburden top management , producing large amounts of detailed information about costs whilst ignoring both wider policy judgements ( which perhaps offer greater scope for savings ) and day-to-day political issues ( which usually preoccupy top civil servants and ministers ) . |
| 12 | It is informal in operation , by its nature unequal in its distribution and in practice a means of subverting both unredeemed meritocracy and the more complex goals of equality of opportunity . |
| 13 | This was linked to ideas of motherhood as confirming both male virility , and adult femininity . |
| 14 | This can be achieved by using both n-gram look-up and a lexical check . |
| 15 | Plants of various ages were measured using both this system and the optical RAM camera , and the results were compared . |
| 16 | We recognise that the urgent need for homes can only be met by mobilising both private investment and public spending . |
| 17 | In ( 3 ) , SPAR is able to identify both some biscuits and a bowl on the floor , allowing both definite noun phrases to be fully resolved ; but it can not find any biscuits that are already in a bowl . |
| 18 | By displaying both critical path and slack it stops crash programs being set up for every activity . |
| 19 | By displaying both critical path and slack it stops crash programs being set up for every activity . |
| 20 | Sequence effects are now known to include a wide variety of conformational changes , concerning both mutual base positions and modifications of the phosphodiester backbones . |
| 21 | The British Museum was still one unit , containing both natural history and works of art , and there were posts there for a few naturalists . |
| 22 | With the bulk of India 's coal production centred upon Raniganj in West Bengal , Whessoe occasionally in conjunction with another Darlington firm , Head Wrightson were exporting both heavy engineering products and expertise to raise gas in Calcutta from local coal . |
| 23 | I- The library can serve an educational role by the simple provision of books and learning resources , providing both immediate access to knowledge and practice in the use of knowledge sources , for instance practice in reading . |
| 24 | Their mothers and their partners ' mothers play a particularly important part in this informal economy of care , providing both practical help with child care and material support , typically in kind rather than cash . |
| 25 | Not surprisingly , many gentry and clergy modified their public pronouncements accordingly , surviving both Parliamentary rule and the Restoration . |
| 26 | What to me seems surprising is that M. Oliver , who presumably supplied the recipes for the Le Creuset leaflet , does not give what is said to be the old and traditional fondue of Franche-Comté , a dish in every respect superior to its primitive Swiss counterpart , having both greater finesse of flavour and texture and far less brutally indigestible qualities . |
| 27 | The difficulty with many agrarian reform programmes has been achieving both social justice and economic growth . |
| 28 | Against a backdrop of rapidly changing retail dynamics and continuing economic uncertainty , trading conditions in the U.S.A. were extremely difficult affecting both Mass Market Apparel and Home Fashions . |
| 29 | If significant provision is to be made it must be on the basis of a genuine negotiation and interaction between educators and the community , involving both social understanding and careful curriculum development to meet the needs of each particular group . |
| 30 | Informality means that new loopholes can be speedily and efficiently closed , thereby avoiding both needless expense and the unwieldiness of formal legal processes . |