Example sentences of "the [adj] [prep] both " in BNC.
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| 1 | Policies were issued from the 1720s by both Royal Exchange Assurance and the London Assurance — the only two survivors of the South Sea Bubble — but these were few in number , rarely issued for more than a year at a time and based on uniform rather than on age-related premiums . |
| 2 | Mistakes of that sort apart , it would seem that , as had always been the case , some sort of checking system was needed to give lenders the required degree of confidence to carry on , and that the more thorough and ‘ scientific ’ it was the better for both borrower and lender , the more effectively it reduced the incidence of overindebtedness , and saved borrowers from overstretching themselves and indulging in mad bouts of impulsive buying . |
| 3 | I felt that the news was broken to us in a very inhumane manner , but perhaps there is no way to sweeten the statement , and the sooner the news is conveyed the better for both the giver and receiver . |
| 4 | For the protests which started in the 1970s over both the reprocessing operation at Sellafield and the ultimate disposal of nuclear waste have had one fundamental effect on the whole nuclear industry . |
| 5 | They handed people , patients , on to each other , they were known and sought out by the desperate among both clergy and laity . |
| 6 | This place wo n't be the same with both you and Kathleen gone . ’ |
| 7 | Here the situations are the same for both but their response is different — one parent may be up and down shouting requests and injunctions to the children , whilst the other sits calmly drinking coffee . |
| 8 | SelectMail for both operating systems will be out next month — prices are the same for both versions and start at $156 , going up to $3,600 . |
| 9 | The problem was essentially the same for both classical deterrence and rehabilitation , despite their different aims : there was no necessary relationship between either the amount of deterrent punishment or the amount of rehabilitation required to deter or cure particular criminals , and the gravity of their offences . |
| 10 | SelectMail for both operating systems will be available in April — prices are the same for both versions and start at $156 and go to $3,6000 . |
| 11 | Essentially the injection procedure is the same for both solutions and cells . |
| 12 | The importance of this FASB-sponsored report is , therefore , that it recognizes that accounting concepts are essentially the same for both profit-orientated and nonprofit organizations . |
| 13 | Since the force exerted by the spring is the same at both low and high speeds , this makes it feel rather twitchy , and it is not difficult to overstress the aircraft at high speeds . |
| 14 | However , as Anthony and Young ( 1984 , p. 4 ) argue , ‘ the basic control concepts are the same in both profit-orientated and nonprofit organizations , but because of the special characteristics of nonprofit organizations , the application of these concepts differs in some important respects ’ . |
| 15 | The objective of behavioural models is the same in both industrial and consumer goods markets . |
| 16 | The intuition behind the test is once again that if the restrictions are valid we would expect the sum of square residuals , and hence their logarithms , to be approximately the same in both the restricted and the unrestricted models . |
| 17 | At least method 1 is independent of the units of measurement ( providing they are the same in both years ) but the equal weight that attaches to all commodities can give a misleading figure — if the price of matches falls by 50% and the price of coal rises by 50% the combined index indicates no change . |
| 18 | Now I think about it afterwards , the Road Hole was definitely the turning point of the Open for both Watson and Ballesteros . |
| 19 | The Champ 25SE combines tube and solid state technology to bring you , it maintains , the ultimate in versatility and therefore the best of both the valve and tranny worlds . |
| 20 | Good controls allow you to get the best of both comfort and economy at the same time . |
| 21 | To its ideologies it was a superior form which embodied the best of both socialism and capitalism . |
| 22 | The two and three centre holidays in this brochure are designed to offer the best of both worlds and combine old favourites with one or two unusual ones . |
| 23 | His work , which fuses the best of both the photographic and surrealist schools , is characterized by witty visual allusions , trompe-l'oeil and a teasing distortion of perspective and scale . |
| 24 | They , along with the newcomers , may hope to take advantage of the best of both rural and urban worlds . |
| 25 | A Congregationalist who turned Anglican , he combined the best of both Catholic and evangelical traditions . |
| 26 | Any good creative thing is neither aggressively virile nor aggressively feminine ; it is a fusion of the best of both … |
| 27 | Older vintages would be scrapped more quickly , making space for the new in both labour and product markets . |
| 28 | Then follow prayers for the dead by both priest , and people who have their own version , that the Mass may be " mede & medecyne " to them . |
| 29 | In fact , spending per child on books and educational equipment increased slightly ( though not steadily ) in real terms during the 1980s in both primary and secondary schools . |