Example sentences of "is both [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment of consummation , Philip shouts aloud the word ‘ Joy ’ , which is both exclamation and apostrophe . |
| 2 | We are now back to a situation where industry is both poacher and gamekeeper " . |
| 3 | In a sense , then , the purchase of consumer durables is both consumption and a form of investment . |
| 4 | ‘ At meals there is both restraint and royal bounty ; moderate drinking prevails without excess , yet those who hunger will never complain of frugality . |
| 5 | As Halliday ( 1984 ) points out , language is both system and resource . |
| 6 | These hornitos , which are also known rather aptly as driblet cones , go on growing as long as there is both gas and lava to feed them , and they may reach a height of many metres . |
| 7 | As in the human , this action is both dose and enantiomer specific . |
| 8 | The ‘ Land of Dreams ’ of the title is both childhood and the US — and in both cases the quote marks are very deliberate . |
| 9 | It tends to be a time-consuming transformation process which is both management and resource intensive , and is more expensive than invention . |
| 10 | And therefore I think that there is both progress and regression . |
| 11 | An incompetent head is one who fails to master the task of reconciling a management plan with a financial plan , who fails to communicate and to ensure enough understanding for the financial plan with his or her teacher colleagues and who is unable to engage with governors at a level where there is both trust and understanding . |
| 12 | ‘ These provincial councils were meant to act as part of central council within their own area , but they have grown more independent and now we have a situation where there is both competition and conflict between them and a reluctance to accept the authority of central council . ’ |
| 13 | Within that evolving framework there is both complexity and variety , for change involves both redundancy as well as novelty , and each region was subject to different pressures stemming from its past and its neighbours . |
| 14 | The historically radical , and later red , character of large sections of the French peasantry is both legend and well documented . |
| 15 | ‘ Some parents assume their daughters are going through a phase when the harsh reality is both bulimia and anorexia can lead to long-lasting damage . |
| 16 | In the scriptural usage of that term there is both continuity and discontinuity with that wider understanding . |
| 17 | There is both value and cost to a relationship . |
| 18 | He is both participant and observer : ‘ a sceptical , sober , anti-Utopian , understated mind ’ ( in his own words ) confronting the business of opposing state power with rueful self-awareness . |
| 19 | This is both noun and adjective . |
| 20 | This is a generic something : I am speaking here of a literary practice long and widely and variously undertaken , in relation to which Roth is both critic and executant . |
| 21 | Uppermost among them will be how they begin to devise a strategy to defeat a man who is both boxer and puncher . |
| 22 | Howard Shelley is both conductor and soloist , and will conduct the concerto from the keyboard , as Mozart himself did . |
| 23 | There is both comfort and danger in this . |
| 24 | Time ( concludes Claire , on her way to the sarnie bar for a beef and mayo special ) is both plastic and inexorable . |
| 25 | Lord Ross added : ‘ This appears to me to emphasise that there is both importance and difficulty in this action which would make it appropriate for the action to be heard in the Court of Session as the supreme court rather than in the sheriff court . |
| 26 | She is both martinet and mother hen . |
| 27 | She is both martinet and mother hen . |
| 28 | What groups like The Christians do to soul is both coarsen and mute it , at the same time . |