Example sentences of "[verb] both to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vitor frowned , as though he objected both to the direct approach and to the Dane 's knowledge of her affairs . |
| 2 | Reaction to the overt corruption of much aristocratic politicking in the form of organised Radicalism had little consistent support in the area but its presence contributed both to the increasing strength of popular protest and to the fierceness of the gentry 's reaction to any form of mass criticism . |
| 3 | Further , decisions about the needs of kin , and whether one has a duty to put them before one 's own interests , cease to be static sets of responsibilities and become matters for judgement at a particular point in time , with such judgements being related both to the economic circumstances then prevailing , and to the situation of all the other members of the family group . |
| 4 | If in addition promises were made , as it seems they were , of helping to boost wage rates , and if particular grievances were also thrown into the package , it is not necessarily paradoxical that women should have agreed both to the five-year ban on entry ( they were not to know that it would really be a permanent one ) and to the assigning of all new machines to men . |
| 5 | Percentage loss of prey from tawny owl pellets was found to be greater in summer than in winter ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and this could relate both to the greater numbers of immature rodents taken as prey , the bones of which are less mineralized and therefore easier to digest ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and to the likelihood of the birds producing the pellets being themselves immature In the case of the great horned owl it has been found that the stomach pH in immature birds is lower than that of adults ( Grimm & Whitehouse , 1963 ) and there is therefore greater destruction of bone and loss of prey . |
| 6 | Lloyd George had both a real desire to bring about social improvement and a shrewd appreciation of the gains it could , if carefully approached , bring both to the Liberal party and to his personal reputation . |
| 7 | MARRIAGE — It refers both to the social institution that sets up and sanctions the union of persons of opposite sex ( see family ) and to the state of being married . |
| 8 | They are concerned with giving both to the younger ones coming up behind them and the older ones ahead , who are nearing the end of life . |
| 9 | ‘ East or west all woods must fail ’ therefore applies both to the Old Forest and to the symbolic woods of Life and Error . |
| 10 | However , as long as this distinction is understood , it is generally agreed that the term ‘ pitch ’ is a convenient one to use informally to refer both to the subjective sensation and to the objectively measurable fundamental frequency . |
| 11 | These changes , at their most general , are , first , the substantial development of the division of labour , inside cultural processes , and , second , forms of class division , related both to the specialized divisions of the process and to the ownership and management of the developed means of production . |
| 12 | In the Japanese setting , for example , it would be wholly inappropriate to conclude that a particular element such as seniority-based wage payments would be desirable as a policy prescription elsewhere , without a prior understanding of how that wage system relates both to the general security of employment in large Japanese firms and , possibly , the cultural assumptions concerning the importance of age in other parts of Japanese society ( Dore , 1973 ) . |
| 13 | Wide discretion on the part of sentencers is a hallmark of the system , and this extends both to the initial choice of sentencing aim which the sentencer thinks it appropriate to pursue in any given case , and to the selection of a particular measure from the extensive range that is available . |
| 14 | All histological material , both from the first cystoscopy and the second cystoscopy , was sent both to the local pathologist and then representative sections sent to the reference pathologist . |