Example sentences of "both [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shirt-maker gave up her job , and they both lived on the pattern-maker 's relatively high pay . |
| 2 | Both insist on a strong fact/value distinction , according to which there are pure ethical statements which are logically independent of all factual statements . |
| 3 | ‘ This produced a pretty farcical scene really with us both stopped on the track , but I managed to get away and hang on for second . |
| 4 | Both concentrate on the politics of local government , but both also stress how any explanation of local politics must look outside the formal political processes which operate around local political parties and the Council Chamber . |
| 5 | They both knelt on the carpet and peered at the large magazine , turning the pages . |
| 6 | It is no accident that the intellectual defence of modern capitalism and the major contemporary expression of socialism , namely Marxism , both depend on the assumptions of the Enlightenment and date from that period . |
| 7 | Both depend on the partition of the components of the mixture between a stationary phase and a mobile phase . |
| 8 | He led her into the room and , looking at the four musicians , he said , ‘ This is Peggy , my sparring partner ever since we both crawled on the lawn together . |
| 9 | Both rely on a trusted right-hand — Dalglish on Ray Harford and Clough , in his best years , on the late Peter Taylor . |
| 10 | By fusing news broadcasts with traditional novelistic tropes , she foregrounds the conventionality of both discursive genres and points to the fact that they both rely on an assumption of verisimilitude which her flagrant transgressions of narrative ontology undermine . |
| 11 | Equally , they are on the margins of land law conceptually , since both rely on the archaic significance , in common law culture , of possession as the basis of property rights . |
| 12 | They both go on a journey of discovery , she intellectually and he emotionally . |
| 13 | Both rejected positivistic literary scholarship and called for a renewed attention to literature as literature ; both insisted on the differences between literature and other kinds of writing , and tried to define these differences in theoretical terms ; both gave a central role in their definitions to ideas of structure and interrelatedness , and treated the literary text as an object essentially independent of its author and its historical context . |
| 14 | There are two broad aspects to this and both bear on the relation of seats in the Commons to votes in the country . |
| 15 | He was 128th in driving accuracy , 180th in sand saves , 192nd , which is to say dead last , in sub-par holes ( percentage of eagles and birdies ) , 191st ( or second-to-last ) in scoring average , dead last in both putting on the few greens he hit in regulation and in total putts ( which means that when he missed a green , he seldom got it up and down ) , and dead last again in shooting birdies on par-3s , par-4s and par-5s . |
| 16 | Why in in that case do you think that Sir Nicholas and he he he 's not stupid , I mean he 's a career politician , he 's come out and said this his wife has said that they 're both smiling on the front page of the newspaper at the moment and they go on to say it 's not fair on a man if a women undresses and then changes her mind . |
| 17 | Both sat on the opposite row of seats and Magee moved uncomfortably under their gaze . |
| 18 | Shareen Mithranee and Debbie Macelveen are both working on the scheme . |
| 19 | Both work on the tension between science and ideology present in Marx 's work and both try to avoid the reduction to class consciousness present in the writing of Engels and Lukács . |
| 20 | You 're wearing the summer shorty for greater freedom of movement for your arms and legs but Howard 's got the full suit , for more protection in colder weather but they both work on the same principle . |