Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [vb infin] both the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Brigade claimed that it could offer both the spirit and the purpose because it ‘ disciplines and controls our lads … tames flippancy , quells impertinence , promotes chivalry , encourages reverence , teaches ready obedience to all properly constituted authority , and insists upon pure and clean English and temperance in all things ’ . |
| 2 | In a typical case in which a husband , seeking a bank advance for his business purposes , is told by his bank manager that security in the form of a charge over the jointly owned matrimonial home must be provided , it would astonish both the husband and the bank manager to be told that the husband had been appointed by the bank as its agent to obtain the wife 's consent to the proposed charge . |
| 3 | It would lessen both the capital value and the size of the dividends gained by those who have made disproportionate gains from privatization . |
| 4 | Alison Mitchell , senior social worker , adult services , Staffordshire SSD : ‘ It will help both the client and their carer to make real choices to meet their respective needs ’ . |
| 5 | Assets from the purchase will be combined with Spea 's US subsidiary , whose name will be changed to Computer Visualisation Technologies Inc ; it will market both the Video Seven and Spea graphics product lines for personal computers . |
| 6 | Light is often used as a metaphor for God because it can convey both the presence and the unapproachability of the divine being . |