Example sentences of "have it both ways " in BNC.
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1 | For men have always had it both ways : the begetting and the travail ( the travail which , as ‘ work ’ belongs to culture , but which as bearing and ‘ labour ’ belongs to nature ) ; the genius and the work ( the genius which is itself both passive possession and authoritative production ) , the penis and the womb . |
2 | That he succeeds in having it both ways is our experience of reading his novel in its dominant and thriller aspect . |
3 | Having it both ways , it was clearly aimed to assuage the consumer 's guilt . |
4 | But one can not have it both ways : for UK wastes ( the import of wastes for landfill is now outlawed ) the options are landfill or incineration , and people local to either hate the one near them . |
5 | It is , I suppose , one manifestation of man 's indomitable urge to ‘ have it both ways at once ’ . |
6 | He really can not have it both ways . |
7 | She could n't have it both ways . |
8 | Much of this could be as plausibly argued today as thirty or more years ago : the extraordinary achievement of the public relations advisers who replaced the ‘ ludicrous courtiers ’ has been to ensure that the royal family do still have it both ways . |
9 | Rooney can not have it both ways . |
10 | As he reached the door , with a variety of helpful obstructions he shouted his Parthian shot — ‘ You ca n't bloody have it both ways … ’ |
11 | You ca n't have it both ways . |
12 | They can not have it both ways and , at the moment , by making such demands they are unwittingly pushing the game towards professionalism . |
13 | Apparently one can not have it both ways . |
14 | You ca n't have it both ways . ’ |
15 | But countries can not have it both ways : the cost of a cleaner environment may sometimes be fewer jobs in dirty industries , which will migrate to less environmentally sensitive lands . |
16 | Could it have it both ways ? |
17 | Sociologists can not have it both ways : either Freud has to be examined alongside the founders of sociology , or they all have to be dismissed as unscientific thinkers . |
18 | Critics of regulation from the standpoint of economic theory can not have it both ways . |
19 | ‘ Letting the man have it both ways at once . |
20 | Did n't the Anglicans try and have it both ways ? |
21 | The Minister can not have it both ways . |
22 | Well , you ca n't have it both ways . |
23 | He could n't have it both ways . |
24 | He can not have it both ways . |
25 | They claim that they have a mandate for doing that , too , but they can not have it both ways . |
26 | The Labour party can not have it both ways : it attacks the system either because it expects people to claim or because it requires a register . |
27 | The Secretary of State can not have it both ways . |
28 | He can not have it both ways . |
29 | The Opposition can not have it both ways . |
30 | I mean you ca n't have it both ways |