Example sentences of "both to the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 ) .
3 ( b ) I do not accept that quasi-contractual claims , even where a contract is involved , are properly to be treated as falling per se within article 5(1) , having regard both to the general considerations I have already advanced in my analysis of the cases such as Peters [ 1983 ] E.C.R. 987 , and also because it is difficult to locate a place of performance for a quasi-contractual obligation .
4 This was due both to the general reduction in the level of retail sales growth and to fashion market reversal in demand for products made from jersey fabric .
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 Again , this had some appeal both to the industrial managers of the Federation of British Industry , who had called for ‘ planning ’ at their 1960 conference as a way out of the damaging ‘ stop-go ’ cycle ( Jessop , 1980 ) , and to the party activists for whom ‘ planning ’ meant increased government control over industrial enterprises .
7 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 .
8 We owe this both to the two teams of experienced science teachers responsible for the survey , which we direct , and to the several hundred science teachers who have generously given their time and advice to our teams .
9 The FMC has received frequent complaints about shippers having to pay freight twice , both to the insolvent NVOCC and to the shipping company which had not been paid by the NVOCC .
10 A particularly influential and characteristic tract is his Against Praxeas , a Christian who came from Asia Minor to Rome to express opposition both to the pluralistic theology of Justin and Hippolytus and to any recognition that Montanist prophecy might be an authentic work of the Paraclete .
11 It is obvious that image is important , both to the young woman concerned with her self-image and to those involved in promoting a certain kind of image , a certain look .
12 In addition , until 1568 there seemed a good chance that Elizabeth might have married Philip 's cousin , Charles of Austria , and have thereby returned England both to the Catholic church and the Hapsburg interest .
13 ( ii ) National liberation was thus a reaction both to the political domination of the Great Powers and to integration into a wider capitalist system ( the two were not always distinguishable ) .
14 The labour test was unattractive both to the many of the unemployed , because it impaired their skills and prevented their seeking work elsewhere , and to Poor Law administrators , because discipline was difficult to maintain in the stoneyards .
15 Environmental issues , too , promote public awareness of the need for global solutions , both to the immediate dangers arising from atmospheric ozone depletion and to the longer-term threats associated with global warming .
16 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 .
17 This ambiguity — not yet fully dispelled — has been of immense importance both to the international community and to Japan herself .
18 The US government continued its efforts to explain the aims of its policy both to the international community and to US domestic opinion .
19 To support Wilfrid was also to engage in a protracted dispute which must have been a long-term embarrassment both to the Northumbrian king and the archbishop of Canterbury .
20 This data is open to a variety of interpretations , and can be used to lend weight both to the participatory model and to the deferential model of electoral behaviour .
21 This should be taken as a message both to the Western allies and the Soviet Union that West Germany 's first concern is the gradual , well-disciplined reform of East German society , not the country 's destruction and its absorption into West Germany .
22 Presumably , approaching a text from a linguistic point of view only ceases to be extraordinary , when one compares it both to the complex peculiarity of the other ways texts are handled , and the fact that the " naive " reader is a mythical beast .
23 Its relationship both to the Gaussian curvature of two-dimensional surfaces and to tidal forces is discussed .
24 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 .
25 At this stage expression turns both to the outside or ‘ front ’ of the house as well as the internal setting .
26 He sees himself as the successor both to the Assyrian and Babylonian monarchies , conquerors of the Middle East , and to Saladin , who became leader of a vast Syro-Palestino-Egyptian Empire , and gained a prodigious reputation for avenging Islam when he recaptured Jerusalem from the Frankish crusaders in 1187 .
27 The old saying points both to the great latent — and often unrealized — fertility stored in the root system of an old permanent sward , and to the difficulty of rebuilding this treasure should it be dug up and spent .
28 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 .
29 ‘ East or west all woods must fail ’ therefore applies both to the Old Forest and to the symbolic woods of Life and Error .
30 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 .
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