Example sentences of "[pron] both [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , talk to Stevely on the subject of how well he has taught them and this most modest of men will go off at a tangent , drawing attention to the extent to which both girls have been prepared to work . |
| 2 | 1818 ) — for cladding and other purposes , invented a ‘ sympathetic hinge ’ by which both leaves of a double door opened simultaneously , and in 1787 devised a prefabricated ‘ movable hospital ’ . |
| 3 | After a hard-hitting first round in which both boxers traded body punches , the initiative ebbed away from Hopper in the second as he allowed himself to be drawn into a slugging match instead of using his jab . |
| 4 | He clearly won a toe-to-toe scrap in which both boxers concentrated more on hitting each other than boxing , but it was good value . |
| 5 | We know quite a bit about the historical context , the world in which both figures existed . |
| 6 | Such a figure is based to some extent on notional accounting — an expert 's time per hour is , for example , assessed at a much higher rate than he or she is actually paid — but it indicates the profit margins which both houses need to maintain . |
| 7 | The approach described here was developed on the basis of the experience of an emergency psychiatric service in a general hospital in which both psychiatrists and non-medical staff ( nurses and social workers ) carry out assessments and treatment ( Hawton et al . |
| 8 | Useful information is also given about porters , guides , costs and local regulations in the national parks in which both mountains are situated . |
| 9 | He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there ! |
| 10 | This is the balance sheet in which both inventories and long-term assets are valued at current replacement cost . |
| 11 | Such effort rewarded Nick Baglin , whose coolness earned him several crucial points in his final against Robinson , the Yorkshireman going down 6–3 , 6–4 , a match for which both players received a standing ovation . |
| 12 | A telling statistic in a recent election study by Rose and McAllister is that , whereas in 196480 per cent of those who came from homes in which both parents were Labour voters themselves voted for the party , by 1983 the proportion from such backgrounds which still voted Labour had dropped to 45 Per cent . |
| 13 | His father was an Ulsterman who emigrated to Scotland to work in the mines , where he married a local woman and presided over a strictly protestant household in which both parents were active members of the Orange Lodge . |
| 14 | We studied nuclear families in which at least one member had non-insulin dependent diabetes and in which both parents and their children were available for study . |
| 15 | Finally , the judicature Acts in 1873–5 abolish the old Court of Chancery , as they abolish the Common Law Courts and certain other courts , and establish a new court — the High Court of justice — which has all the powers of a Court of Common Law and a Court of Equity , and in which both sets of rules , the rules of Law and the rules of Equity , are administered ; but in which , if there is ‘ conflict or variance ’ between them , the rules of Equity are to prevail . |
| 16 | It is also often useful to include in the side letter , by way of illustration only , a worked example of a pro forma completion statement to which both sets of accountants agree and to which they can refer back when the actual accounts are to be prepared . |
| 17 | The discussion then became general after which both leaders replied , the vote was taken when eleven voted for negative and eight for affirmative . |
| 18 | In general , both leaders stressed their unanimity on all the main subjects , including the last-minute question of the Soviet ultimatum to Lithuania [ see p. 37361 ] , which came at the end of the summit and which both leaders roundly condemned . |
| 19 | Supposing in a Bertrand-type model that the industry has reached the point at which both firms are breaking even , there will still be a tendency to cut the price to drive the other firm out of business until the price reaches the level at which the victorious monopolist is breaking even . |
| 20 | Nonetheless , the jurisdiction to relist , albeit extraordinary and confined , has been characterised as a necessary concomitant of the statutory scheme instituted by the 1968 Act , under which both courts operate . |
| 21 | Action was also held back by the need to reform local finance which both Reports recommended . |
| 22 | Thereafter things became very confused , particularly with regard to the area known as the ‘ Debatable Land ’ , which both countries claimed . |
| 23 | In the short text the account of the Crucifixion and the meditator 's awareness of his own sin come to a climax in an outpouring of lyrical prose which has been printed as verse though it seems more effective if the surge of the rhymes and the alliterative cadences rise within the very structure of the prose like great waves to break in the bitter realisation that it is the meditator 's sin which both nails Christ to the cross and blocks the free expression of love in himself : All the internal rhyme , play on words ( ) and alliteration , which intensify the sense of the meditator 's awareness of both the creative power of God " king of " and the impotence of all his own functions , are lost in the long version which omits much of the intense self-disgust present in the short : The emphasis on Christ as the source of life and creativity is similarly highlighted in the short version in the skilful use made of rhyme , cadence and monosyllabic , strong-stressed ends of sentences to graphically convey the moment when he dies and the created cosmos fails : These effects are lost in the prosaic longer version : In both versions the meditator contemplates the appalling inversion of the created order with its lord suffering greater deprivation than the foxes and birds as he hangs " in eyre " ( 88. cf.101 ) with nowhere to lay his head — a reference to Matthew 8:20 traditionally used to emphasise the poverty of God embraced at the Incarnation . |
| 24 | Otto Schweins has brought together two thirty-year old artists , Michael Schulz and Jürgen Stollhans , in an exceptionally consonant collaboration which both artists at first resisted . |
| 25 | Although psycholinguists need not be concerned with all sixteen ( and perhaps computational linguists less still ) , there remain some distinctions of which both disciplines should be aware . |
| 26 | Davies saw seven cases in which both males copulated with the female , and in every case both male 's fed the nestlings . |
| 27 | Development technician Dave said : ‘ At the moment the proposals are very much up in the air but we are hoping to plan mixed weekend trips which both groups would enjoy . ’ |
| 28 | By 1909 then , Picasso and Braque had initiated the first phase of Cubism ; the art which both painters were producing was the result of a new freedom which arose from their having discarded all scientific systems and theories . |
| 29 | This similarity of format should allow these units to have common currency in the credit accumulation system — the National Record of Vocational Achievement , which both bodies operate . |
| 30 | The key to these statistics is the ‘ concordance rate ’ , the proportion of twins in which both individuals suffer from the illness . |