Example sentences of "were [vb pp] both " in BNC.
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| 1 | His services were recognized both by the shah , who presented him with a sword , and by the governor-general , Lord Hastings ( Francis Rawden , later first Marquis of Hastings , q.v . ) . |
| 2 | The volunteers were given both written and verbal information as to the nature of the trial . |
| 3 | But the centres which were the linchpin of the movement were criticized both for erring too much on the side of prevention — tackling such issues as racism , poverty and education in the communities served , and for doing too little prevention , this arising from the affiliation of most of them to general and mental hospitals . |
| 4 | Although the returns accruing to a particular film from the Eady Levy , as it was called , were limited both by the size of the box office in any particular year , and that film 's success in the market-place ( the levy was paid out in proportion to a film 's success ) , the promise it offered did make it easier for independents to raise cash . |
| 5 | Consequently , text corpora were limited both in size and availability . |
| 6 | A reception was held at 66 Portland Place for new MPs , and MPs were lobbied both before and after the General Election about the consequences of the recession . |
| 7 | At the same time , new attitudes were formed both to the past and to the natural world . |
| 8 | These taxes , to be imposed annually for three years , were intended both to raise revenue and to prevent the conversion of arable land to pasture . |
| 9 | Residential workers were expected both to prepare young people for joining a new family and to respond to them if and when these new family relationships failed . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , this particular Conservative administration did offer social policies which were designed both to indicate its commitment to dealing with social problems and to undermine the challenge of Labour . |
| 11 | They were decorated both before and after assembly , with incised lines , compass drawn circles and ring-and-dot motifs . |
| 12 | A local tribunal would decide on the advisability of such a move in each particular circumstance , and the members ' common sense would ensure that applications were considered both prudently and sensitively . |
| 13 | Dialysates from patients with ulcerative colitis were assayed both by GCMS and by radioimmunoassays . |
| 14 | The elections , which involved well over a quarter of the electorate , were seen both as a dress rehearsal for the North-Rhine Westphalian Land elections in May next year and as a test of the political mood in the country . |
| 15 | These talks were presented both at management level and to shop-floor workers , and all the medical team became involved , mainly at David 's instigation . |
| 16 | The findings from this were accepted both by Nether Wyresdale PC and Wyre BC as showing that there is a need for affordable housing in the village . |
| 17 | The relationship between centre and periphery in the Merovingian kingdom was thus extremely complex , because the connections between the two regions were exploited both by the Gallo-Roman aristocracy and by the northern rulers for their own ends up until the eighth century . |
| 18 | These offences were selected both because of their importance and because there is sufficient evidence for detailed analysis . |
| 19 | When the scholars were invited to comment on the style and technique of the Kouros similar arguments and points were made both for and against . |
| 20 | More far-reaching proposals were made both by the Majority and Minority Reports of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws , both much influenced by William Beveridge 's analysis of the causes of unemployment . |
| 21 | Shifts could be made from one monoculture to another in response to market conditions and were made both in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; but they were made without any fundamental change in the traditional crop economy or any mitigation of the problems of rural under-employment . |
| 22 | In 1983 moves were made both to strengthen the powers of the Comptroller and to strengthen the links between him and the Commons . |
| 23 | The routine checks distort the data to some extent but because checks were performed both before and after raditherapy the bias is minimised . |
| 24 | Several methods were used both to promote and to check on data quality . |
| 25 | Where crops were sold both by large estates and small farmers or peasants , the situation was more complex , though in peasant economies , for obvious reasons , the proportion of the crop which came on the world market — i.e. which was not consumed by the producers — from large estates was normally much larger than that which came from the peasant holdings . |
| 26 | Similar results were noted both in patients with confirmed cholera and in a clinically similar group of patients with acute watery diarrhoea from whom V cholerae was not isolated . |
| 27 | The Labour party 's plans to nationalize British civil aviation were based both on their general policy for the nationalization of industry , and on a desire to avoid the haphazard market of the years before 1939 . |
| 28 | Entries were selected from books published between April 1991 and April 1992 and were assessed both for their scholarship and accessibility to the general reader . |
| 29 | In the event , when insurrections were attempted both in the area of Lang Son , on the Chinese border , in September , and in Cochinchina in November , they were repressed with little difficulty by the French colonial government which still deployed enough effective power to ensure that these were rather rash , forlorn , and certainly premature insurrections . |
| 30 | Difficulties were encountered both in finding small mammal bone to work on in caves , and in identifying , with sufficient precision , the processes acting on the bone . |