Example sentences of "both an [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After volume 45 comes a volume entitled ‘ Tables of Statutes and Index for Vols. 1–45 ; ’ this contains both an alphabetical and a chronological list . |
| 2 | Each of these overlapped with the other ; each depended on the other for either illustration , evidence , or knowledge , and each reinforced the other , providing both an individual and a collective logic and coherence . |
| 3 | Now , on any view , this was both an inadequate and a misleading indication to the driver of the nature of his right under section 8(2) and what the exercise of that right would involve and I agree entirely with the decision of the Divisional Court allowing the defendant 's appeal from his conviction of an offence under section 5 by justices based on the admission in evidence of the breath specimen . |
| 4 | In particular , it accepts his claim that comprehension is both an integrative and a constructive process . |
| 5 | Being both an exotic and a carnivore , it has started out with a double disadvantage , and sections of the rural population hate it with an intensity normally reserved for foxes or , worse , polecats . |
| 6 | His nationality is obscure , but at different times he has been known to use both an American and a Belgian passport . |
| 7 | Exceptional restructuring costs resulted in an overall loss for the year on both an historical and a replacement cost basis . |
| 8 | However , after exceptional items we reported losses on both an historical and a replacement cost basis in 1992 . |
| 9 | A new regulatory system to react to qualified audit reports would be both an excessive and a less effective response . |
| 10 | The penis ( from the Latin , tail ) has both an excretory and a reproductive function . |
| 11 | And in labelling the former causes ‘ accidents ’ , Plekhanov implies that they are both an unpredictable and a comparatively unimportant part of the explanation of the course of historical events . |
| 12 | And as ‘ mass communication ’ changes technologically and fragments ( we are already seeing ‘ broadcasting ’ diminish and ‘ narrow casting ’ — the targeting of specialist publics grow ) , communications theorists continue to develop models which have both an analytical and a predictive function . |
| 13 | There is both an exultant and a suffering note in the return of the destructive dove which is also the Christian bird of Incarnation whose message for both individual and society , parish and city , is driven home in the famous anthem passage when ‘ The dove descending breaks the air . ’ |