Example sentences of "[verb] both [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public library needs both in an uncertain financial climate , and although it would be unfair to question the motivation of public librarians mounting courses for adults , the end product often produces an ultimately useful adult library user . |
| 2 | Antiseptic — the benzoin tree of Malaysia yields a substance used both as an antiseptic and against bronchitis |
| 3 | That report was sent to our national executive committee and on May the nineteenth the leader of the Labour party stated and I quote , the plant committee concludes that different elected bodies can be chosen by different electoral systems , that is the view which I share and I support the proposals made both for a reformed second chamber and the European parliament . |
| 4 | Nature and God are identified , and are conceived as an infinite reality which exists both as an all comprehensive mind and as an infinitely extended physical system , and in other ways unknown to us , all these being different aspects of one and the same single reality . |
| 5 | It often consisted both of a main line and of branch families . |
| 6 | In addition , many of them can be tied into Personal Construct Theory in a way that allows its associated Repertory Grid Technique to be used both as an investigatory tool and as a means whereby the perception of art might be enhanced . |
| 7 | Beyond that , de Gaulle 's policy failed both in a narrow and a broad sense . |
| 8 | It testifies both to a new realism in Moscow 's approach to the country 's profound economic crisis , and acknowledgement by the Western financial community that red-blooded free market therapy can not alone provide the answer . |
| 9 | It fed both on a new nationalism , and a revivification of orthodoxy in the face of the challenge of science and materialism . |
| 10 | In their final year , students participate both in a comprehensive design project and in a research project . |
| 11 | Before proceeding with an elaboration of the two strategies invoked by company law to legitimate the power of corporate managers , I will give an overview of the traditional model of the company with the object of showing how its development is characterized both by an increasing centralization of the authority to manage the company in the hands of the directors of the company and by a concern to justify this vesting of broad discretionary power in corporate management . |
| 12 | Discrimination may be experienced both in a covert and an overt form . |
| 13 | His essays , poems in rhyming couplets , and sonnets are a powerful contribution to meditative writing in Welsh , marked both by a searching and courageous intelligence and by a superb mastery of his native language . |
| 14 | This implicitly derogatory attitude to women is linked both to an overmonolithic account of male power , and to a failure to give much attention to the ways in which women have , in fact , often spent much of their lives , and to the activities which have been particularly theirs ( such as the rearing of children , for example ) . |
| 15 | Glam 's translation of this high art idea of camp into pop ( seen at its most powerful in Roxy Music 's ‘ In Every Dream Home A Heartache ’ ) , resulted both in a primitive post-modernism turning yourself and your body into an Art Object with all the irony and the distancing that that implied — and a mocking entry into a ‘ public ’ private fantasy , as it offered a cultural space for a mass white audience to play with hitherto repressed ideas about self , consumption , and masculinity . |
| 16 | It would appear that isolating the set of pulses not marked with arrows would work equally well and , in fact , combining both in a suitable way could double the sensitivity . |
| 17 | One had formerly been an occupational therapy aide with elderly people and then a voluntary day centre manager ; the other had community work qualifications and experience , and had worked both in a local authority and an Age Concern setting . |
| 18 | The assistant would write the bill , get it countersigned , take the money and put both into a small wooden cup which was then put into a socket on the overhead line . |
| 19 | In other cases too , the ability of Jun/Fos containing factors to act both in a negative and in a positive fashion has been proposed ( 33 ) . |
| 20 | Music is caught between these two tendencies , and good music embodies both in a satisfying unity , at once affirming the objective movement of bourgeois society and also negating this through subjective critique . |
| 21 | The knowledge gained is concerned with the history of the development of the built environment and , as in other disciplines , the resulting insights contribute both to a critical understanding of the present day , and to the formulation of strategies for future development . |
| 22 | The ICCD , led by Professor Oreste Ferrari , greatly enhanced the depth and seriousness of cataloguing , which now functions both as a scholarly enterprise and as a means of protecting the country 's heritage in case of damage ( by war , vandalism , earthquake and other natural disasters ) ; decay ( by neglect or pollution ) ; and loss ( by theft or illegal export ) . |
| 23 | For instance , nationalisation of basic industries could be advocated both from a Keynesian and a socialist viewpoint , but for a Keynesian it was not an initial step preparatory to full common ownership of the means of production , distribution and exchange , but a pragmatic move to enable the economy to be run more efficiently . |
| 24 | The struggles over the Contagious Diseases Acts need to be read both as a feminist challenge to male power and as a battle within the power bloc over the disciplining of the working-class . |