Example sentences of "[be] both " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old , or unearned , money tends to be neither acquisitive nor outward-going , whereas new money tends to be both . |
| 2 | In theory it could be both : since any number of copies could be made there might be a surplus of ‘ resurrected ’ people . |
| 3 | In reality , it would probably be both , but in dramatic form , some emotional focus would be sought . |
| 4 | Hearing the prices charged for a feminine briar , I think that the women pipe smokers must be both . |
| 5 | They can not be both . |
| 6 | Normally it has to be one or the other , but leather is so versatile it can be both . |
| 7 | Following the collapse of Novell Inc 's latest negotiation for a bigger piece of Unix System Labs , folks close to the fire are saying that Roel Pieper 's outfit should decide one way or the other whether it wants to be a binary player or a research and development outfit ( UX No 404 ) , because it is n't big enough to be both . |
| 8 | Assuming that regulation has the potential to promote social benefits , either it is effective , but in the wrong directions , or it is ineffective ; it can scarcely be both . |
| 9 | It can not be both . |
| 10 | Okay now anything on the minuses apart from this suggestion that that could be both . |
| 11 | It 's ungrateful to want to be both . ’ |
| 12 | It faced in fifty-seven directions at once , but kept from the old American contingent , and from the anarchic underground , dislike of any political organization , a terror of being bored , or boring , and a tendency , at times , to be both , and incomprehensible with it . |
| 13 | It is equally clear — the right hon. Gentleman has not refuted this — that , in fact , the £35 billion spending commitment of the Labour party would mean either a very big increase in income tax and/or a very big increase in VAT , and it would be likely to be both . |
| 14 | Now , it ca n't be both . |
| 15 | Should it be both ? |
| 16 | It wo n't be both . |
| 17 | ‘ I figured , ’ Damian said with a hard smile , ‘ that there must be a woman somewhere in the world who could be both . |
| 18 | A man can not be both . |
| 19 | Stephen will be both . |
| 20 | You see one can be both . |