Example sentences of "[vb mod] be both [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | They name him Xorandor because they notice that ‘ His logic could be both absolutely rigorous and absolutely contradictory at crucial points , some arguments could be both XOR and AND , or XOR and OR ’ ( 18 ) . |
| 2 | If only Fen could be both friend and lover to her . |
| 3 | What is important about Griffith , however , is that his demonstration that feature films could be both art and social treatise was not inspired by any narrow or specific intellectual or doctrinal position . |
| 4 | But I could be both Verlaine and Rimbaud . |
| 5 | Nobody wants prisoners or lunatics on their doorstep , and there had been a well-fought campaign to demonstrate that the women of Garfield would be both prisoners and lunatics . |
| 6 | His own life would be both source and reflection of his work . |
| 7 | All four will be both IR and Raman active ; the two a 1 modes are in principle distinguishable from the others by giving rise to polarized Raman bands in solution or in the gas phase . |
| 8 | Only magazines as risky as Mediterraneans can take us into the sort of culture where the same writer can be both Keats and Dylan . |
| 9 | the offence is sex neutral so that both homosexual and heterosexual conduct is covered and males and females can be both victims and perpetrators . |
| 10 | Falstaff as ‘ a masculine decayed cornucopious form of the love goddess ’ is amusing as a paradox , though how the boar can be both Mars and Persephone I do not quite see . |
| 11 | Acting can be both pleasure and torture — but it is not fun and people are sometimes more concerned with the image of being an actor ‘ at work ’ rather than just working . |
| 12 | A record type can be a member of one or more sets and can be both owner and member but not of the same set . |
| 13 | However , a record type can not be a member of more than one set of the same type , and no record type can be both owner and member of the same set type . |
| 14 | Whilst the outer domain touching condition is the most commonly experienced when handling two or more objects , special transition cases need to be considered in order to be able to construct an adequate description of an engineering assembly , or the real relationship between two domains which can be both solids and voids . |