Example sentences of "[noun sg] was both [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In itself , the horse was both an arm and a sign of social distinction , as well as a means of transport . |
| 2 | Incorporated in this revolt was both the resurrection of classical principles and the development of new ones that appear to be incompatible . |
| 3 | The justification of this shift was both the unlikelihood of any massive programme of public sector house building being permitted by Tory central government and the usefulness to the authority of capital receipts for land . |
| 4 | It acknowledged that education was both a consumption and investment . |
| 5 | The vine was the symbol of fruitfulness or blessing , so a ‘ fruitful ’ wife was both a blessing to her husband and the bearer of his children . |
| 6 | Experimentalism was both a rediscovery and a quest for new . |
| 7 | Le Destin des Malou ( The Fate of the Malous ) , for example , begins with the mysterious suicide of Eugene Malou , a bankrupt businessman , and the rest of the novel is concerned with his younger son 's discovery that his father was both a crook and , as one of his criminal friends puts it , ‘ a man . |
| 8 | The advantages of being able to deploy the micro-budget came from the fact that the case manager was both the person undertaking the assessment , and the direct worker who understood local opportunities . |
| 9 | The exhibition left me with a feeling that the artist was both the hunter an the hunted , laying open her background in order to investigate , to analyse . |
| 10 | It was also generally believed that , while good works could never of themselves merit salvation , the leading of a saintly life was both a consequence and a sign of one 's elect status . |
| 11 | Having washed his hands of her , her GP expressed the view that her visit to the Centre was both a waste of money and time . |
| 12 | That amateurism was both a code of ethics and a system of status was borne out by the fact that ‘ amateur ’ was often used in conjunction with ‘ gentleman ’ . |
| 13 | Part 5 considered two contending theories of perversion and homosexuality , one deriving from psychoanalysis , the other from anthropological , sociological , and historical perspectives , in which Foucault 's History of Sexuality was both a culmination and a new departure . |
| 14 | The Home Support Project was both an action project ( to provide a service for elderly people with dementia which would help those who wished to remain at home rather than be admitted to an institution ) and a research project ( to evaluate the success of the action project ) . |
| 15 | Economic growth was both the watchword and the mechanism of this advance [ Arndt , 1978 ; Kregel , 1972 ; Worswick and Ady , 1962 ] . |
| 16 | BELOW : Lovedays Mill at Painswick during the 18th century was both a fulling and grist mill . |
| 17 | The obstacles came from three sources : the peasants themselves , their social , political and economic superiors , and the entire weight of institutionalised traditional societies , of which pre-industrial agriculture was both the heart and the main body . |
| 18 | Under the republic the forum was both a market place surrounded by shops and a public meeting place . |
| 19 | For the middle-class was both the agent and product of these changes . |
| 20 | Its success in securing provision in the 1911 National Insurance Act for maternity benefits to be paid directly to the mother was both the culmination of work in maternity and infant welfare , and the springboard for new campaigns . |