Example sentences of "[verb] both the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A quotation ( provided by Randall Baker , private communication ) from a recent Australian funded cattle ranching scheme in Fiji illustrates both the unquestioned assumption that development must imply modern commercial development and the disparaging attitude towards existing social and economic organisation : |
| 2 | Arran himself had joined Beaton and the dowager at the end of 1544 , when they ‘ promised and made bond to the French ambassador , that the French king shall have the young queen , to marry where he list … and also that they shall at the spring of the year , send both the young queen and the old ( Mary of Guise ) into France ’ . |
| 3 | Management must always consider both the short- term and longer-term consequences of their actions . |
| 4 | For example , we may wish to pass both the retail price and the discount percentage . |
| 5 | Gavin Tosh , of Fuel Contracts at Peel Park , visited both the Czech Republic and Slovakia recently to discuss the project with representatives of the nuclear industry in both countries . |
| 6 | The Lords entered the fray in December with a strong preference for PR as a means of keeping both the Labour party and the Commons in check , so that in January 1918 there were disputes between the two houses as well as between and within the parties . |
| 7 | A weak sun was about to rise , turning the darkness to a dusty grey : their horses plodded along the frozen track , both riders taking special care against the potholes , some as deep as a man , which could bring down and even kill both the unwary rider and his horse . |
| 8 | The groups are urging both the Scottish Office and Department of the Environment to match their offer . |
| 9 | This can be seen in Fig. 3.13B , where the proportions of mandibles with the ascending ramus totally destroyed are plotted against maxillary damage , and this groups both the tawny owl and snowy owl with the other predator species producing less alteration . |
| 10 | ‘ The deal will benefit both the cricketing public and the Benson and Hedges competition , with more matches covered live and viewers enjoying a wider choice during peak hours . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The deal will benefit both the cricketing public and the Benson and Hedges competition , with more matches covered live and viewers enjoying a wider choice during peak hours . ’ |
| 12 | You can either invest both the original sum and interest for another fixed term . |
| 13 | WordPerfect word processing software handles both the written word and graphic interpretation with ease . |
| 14 | In the 1830s and early 1840s Palmerston was able to handle both the Belgian question and the Near Eastern crises of 1832 – 33 and 1839 – 41 with little interference from parliament , so that in 1839 an acute observer of British politics could say with much justification that " foreign affairs are never discussed except at the House of Lords " . |
| 15 | Meetings were accordingly held each week to discuss both the previous game and the tactics to be used in the next . |
| 16 | He had spent most of his life in England and admired both the feudal-system efficiency and military skills of the Norman knights who had administered that country since William of Normandy conquered it in 1066 . |
| 17 | And I think it 's important to make the distinction that the independent sector includes both the voluntary sector and er , the profit and er , sorry the , not the profit making organizations er , the , the staff of the Agency consists of er , two officers and an admin administrative er , staff , and erm , they have been involved in a variety of er , different activities . |
| 18 | Only an idealized observer could see both the inner processing and the causal relations of the symbols to outside objects that give them meaning : no one could actually be that idealized observer , because each observer is confined to operating on the symbols that are within his computational machinery , and this excludes their external causal relations . |
| 19 | Even as civil society endlessly displaces corruption from the social body as a whole on to its low life , the latter reveals both the original source and full extent of corruption within the dominant itself ( pp. 16 , 174 ) . |
| 20 | Bush stated that the USA had assumed the " burden of leadership " in confronting the aggression of Iraq , because " among the nations of the world , only the United States of America has had both the moral standing and the means to back it up " . |
| 21 | Tom Polacheck , of the US NMFS , who has been closely involved with the harbour porpoise entanglement problem , believes that the incidental taking of harbour porpoise is an example of the problems that face both the marine scientist and society , in that both marine animals and commercial fisheries are highly valued and represent issues of concern to various segments of society . |
| 22 | Eventually they succeeded , quickly securing both the bottom door and the top flap and , even then , we could hear the horse pounding the thick oaken panels . |
| 23 | Thus , what is outlined here represents both the existing law and the basis for determining the law in as yet untested or unfamiliar circumstances . |
| 24 | In particular , it has lobbied both the British Parliament and the European institutions with demands to break up the brewing monopolies and to restore greater choice to pub users . |
| 25 | By presenting a broad front , which encompasses the country 's official architectural watchdogs as well as the Campaign for Real Ale , we hope to alert both the general public and the brewing trade to what we believe is a growing and serious threat to our cultural heritage . |
| 26 | On the former 's side , there was a clear , oft-stated belief that the union movement represented the best chance of overthrowing the government , given both the electoral weakness and the apparent shift from ‘ left wing principles ’ of the Labour party ( see Crick 1985 , p. 140 ) . |
| 27 | Underlying all the problems is the urge to exploit , which has poisoned both the cultural ethos and the natural environment . |
| 28 | Changes in stratospheric water vapour due to changes in methane and stratosphere-troposphere exchange could affect both the radiative budget and the temperature of PSC formation . |
| 29 | Losing the left engine is trickier since it drives both the single generator and the sole hydraulic pump . |
| 30 | Specific data needs to be recorded about piece parts , allowing both the graphical representation and technical data to be clearly defined ready for efficient recall when required . |