Example sentences of "not [verb] it both [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He really can not have it both ways . |
| 3 | Rooney can not have it both ways . |
| 4 | They can not have it both ways and , at the moment , by making such demands they are unwittingly pushing the game towards professionalism . |
| 5 | Apparently one can not have it both ways . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Critics of regulation from the standpoint of economic theory can not have it both ways . |
| 9 | The Minister can not have it both ways . |
| 10 | He can not have it both ways . |
| 11 | They claim that they have a mandate for doing that , too , but they can not have it both ways . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Secretary of State can not have it both ways . |
| 14 | He can not have it both ways . |
| 15 | The Opposition can not have it both ways . |
| 16 | Further , employers could not have it both ways ; if they sought summary conviction before justices of the peace , they could hardly have had penalties of a harshness imposable only by the courts . |
| 17 | She could n't have it both ways . |
| 18 | You ca n't have it both ways . |
| 19 | You ca n't have it both ways . ’ |
| 20 | Well , you ca n't have it both ways . |
| 21 | He could n't have it both ways . |
| 22 | I mean you ca n't have it both ways |
| 23 | Now you ca n't have it both ways , surely ? |
| 24 | previous track record in Europe , and Councillor , you ca n't have it both ways . |
| 25 | They ca n't have it both ways . |
| 26 | Well they ca n't have it both ways if they can afford to save money they can , but if they do n't , then stay in the centre |
| 27 | You ca n't have it both ways . |