Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] both for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They pushed on up the Mercery , standing aside as a group of debtors from the Marshalsea , linked by chains , moved through the crowd , begging for alms both for themselves and other inmates . |
| 2 | It is found in a manuscript in the Bodleian Library , Oxford ( MS Digby 86 ) , that appears to have been written within the diocese of Worcester both for , and , arguably , by , a layman and is datable between the accession of Edward I in 1272 and the end of the eleventh year of his reign in November 1283 . |
| 3 | Zuckerman 's proposal of marriage to Maria in The Counterlife is an indication of its importance , and of the importance of escape both for the tradition and for the unsatisfiable Roth . |
| 4 | ‘ I wanted you to come here to face your past , also to make a sort of peace both for yourself and my mother . |
| 5 | Therefore I compromise and send her to Calcutta with her grandmother and suffer pangs of guilt both for packing her off and for conforming to my elitist background . |
| 6 | Although it was at a high altitude and windswept , she created at Bankshead a garden full of her favourite wild flowers , which were a source of inspiration both for her painting and her writing . |
| 7 | The F-Plan recipes , meal suggestions and charts on the following pages give you plenty of scope both for doing your own thing and eating your own thing , whether it is something as simple as beans on toast or a sandwich , or something considerably more adventurous . |
| 8 | There is an obvious mixture of pointers both for and against the existence of a Deity . |
| 9 | What is know of Gordon Thomas — all to little — makes this unlikely since he was an ambitious man with a strong personality who would certainly have been aware of the advantages of publicity both for himself and the lift . |
| 10 | The significance of the support for the Southwark [ sic ] theologians which flooded in from left-wing humanists , will not be lost on anyone who had learned , the hard way , that these people , who reject all concept of man as a child of God both for themselves and everyone else , make common ground with soft permissives wherever they can find them — in or out of the Church . |
| 11 | Joe Royle , the Oldham manager , was full of praise both for Graham and his own team . |
| 12 | Risk estimates certainly appear to be relatively malleable , there is evidence that increasing the availability in memory of risk-related information alters people 's subsequent assessments of risk both for the overall frequency of lethal events ( Lichtenstein et al. |
| 13 | Baldwin disliked the level of unemployment both for its own sake and because he believed it worked against the evolution of a moderate Labour Party . |
| 14 | A particular effort is in any case demanded , to ensure a supply of trebles both for their own sake and in order to provide the tenors and basses of the future . |
| 15 | The objects of the new system are to enable institutions to develop a greater degree of flexibility and autonomy , and to reduce the amount of paperwork both for them and the Council . |
| 16 | From the early 1880s he was conscious of the need for reform both for its own sake and to check the potential threat from labour to the political status quo . |
| 17 | In the library she negotiated a cease-fire between Joyce Babcock and the new trainee , a girl fatally endowed with enthusiasm both for books and for people , and therefore threatening the entire ethos of Joyce 's empire . |
| 18 | This entailed a dual arrangement : an ordained regular abbot ( i.e. a monk , one who followed a regula , or rule ) ran the community 's liturgical work and day-to-day upkeep from the inside , while , from the outside , a lay aristocrat assumed control of the community 's landed endowment along with responsibility both for the military service owed to the king from the men beneficed on the monastery 's lands , and often for hospitality at the monastery for the king and his entourage . |
| 19 | A question with implications both for policy and for theory is whether learned helplessness and/or self-worth motivation become more prevalent with age . |
| 20 | Similarly , hearing increased in importance both for the information it gave about the environment in general , and for communication within the species ; hence the stage was also set for language to be born . |
| 21 | The Torah had to be made accessible in Greek both for religious service and for private reading . |
| 22 | The 18th century was a golden age in Wales both for patrons and artists . |
| 23 | to preserve standards of skill and knowledge by requiring training , experience or some qualification for membership , and by fostering the exchange of knowledge between members both for the ‘ honour ’ or social respect of the members , and in the public interest ; |
| 24 | The grants applied to houses both for letting and selling , and the local authorities were empowered also to give help to private builders . |
| 25 | It is surely significant that when the government of newly independent Zimbabwe was seeking finance to buy out South African interests in the country 's newspapers and establishing a new framework within which its press , television and radio could operate , it went to Nigeria both for finance and for advice . |
| 26 | Backett noted that doctors were more likely to refer upper-class patients than working-class patients to hospital for treatment both for non-terminal and terminal nursing cases . |