Example sentences of "to have both " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are wonderful with good or very good orchestras , but with a top orchestra they seem to have both hands bound ! |
| 2 | The answer would be to have both ! |
| 3 | So , unlike many children at the time , Sylvia was fortunate enough to have both parents close at hand . |
| 4 | Cocaine is so inexpensive that most heroin injectors like to have both drugs in the mix at the same time . |
| 5 | Mr Wright , 35 , of Hillingdon , west London , had to have both legs amputated . |
| 6 | Although SNMP2 will offer no real backward compatibility with version 1 , Epilogue recognises that SNMP users will need to have both versions resident on their systems , and it will therefore incorporate elements of both versions in its next release . |
| 7 | Although Boyle agreed with Bacon and Descartes that the quest for final causes would be injurious to science if it jeopardized the search for physical causes , the great beauty of a mechanical philosophy was that , properly understood , it allowed one to have both . |
| 8 | Are you so anxious to know what it feels like to have both eyeballs gouged out , one at a time ? |
| 9 | Solicitors are frequently appointed not only in the legal departments but in the secretarial departments of large concerns ; but a person who intends to go for a secretarial department would be better advised to obtain a secretarial rather than a legal qualification ( to have both would , of course , be best of all ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Because the merchant thought it was a waste of light to have both eyes open ; why not save the light the way you save money ? ’ |
| 11 | He patted both Xanthe and Miranda on the hand , chuckled , and went on , ‘ How delightful to have both my girls with me ’ — giving Miranda 's a special squeeze — ‘ I 'm all ears , my dear . |
| 12 | In other words , the adversary system is said to have both economic costs and political costs . |
| 13 | Women artists need to have both ‘ parents ’ as part of the resources and references from which they make their art today , and to understand the nature of the position from which they work and intervene to reshape — to expand — contemporary culture . |
| 14 | She even detached herself composedly when he was within , to have both hands free to drop the heavy wooden bar into place and fasten the door , and then took him by the hand again to bring him safely to the door of the undercroft , across the uneven stones . |
| 15 | Tawney can-be said to have both formulated Labour Party education policy by writing in 1922 the key document , Secondary Education for All , and to have reflected the demands of successive conferences for educational reform — particularly for the secondary age group . |
| 16 | The managers I spoke to have both taken up positions in this particular store because previous management were not competent in their jobs . |
| 17 | Obscure as they are , one can be confident that relations with Normandy were an important aspect of Æthelred 's reign : he is known to have made a treaty with Richard I , married his daughter , and gone into exile there in 1013 , and reported to have both sent a military expedition against it and in 1009 asked Duke Richard II for help . |
| 18 | Unable to stop the spell which has made the broom fetch water , the apprentice breaks it in two only to have both halves doing the job at twice the speed . |
| 19 | The question at issue is whether it is ‘ better ’ for the bilateral cases to have both joints replaced in a single operation or to have each joint treated separately in operations , say , six months apart . |
| 20 | I thought you had to have both ? |
| 21 | They say well no we would like to have it 's nice to have both . |
| 22 | yeah but he wants somebody to have both |
| 23 | erm schools just do n't help girls to have both and so a lot of the talk about underachievement , and I do n't like that word , amongst girls really ignores the fact that girls are n't underachieving when they do n't go all out for occupational success , when they do n't set their goals very high in schools , they are being very rational because if they do achieve they are going to be faced with immense problems . |