Example sentences of "both [prep] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argues that , given our present state of ignorance regarding the classification of linguistic disorders , descriptive detail is necessary , both as a prelude to intervention and in order to increase our basic understanding of language development . |
| 2 | Since ‘ language ’ in this formulation is regarded both as the key to human convention , and also as something which human beings possess and animals do not , the phrase itself implies the lack of interesting explanatory or constraining connections between human and animal behaviour . |
| 3 | Both were under a lot of stress I think — both with the build-up to the wedding and with the uncertainty of Moonstone 's future . |
| 4 | The realist privileging of the military is challenged both in the approach to security and in the conceptualization of state power . |
| 5 | There is a little wry irony both in the prologue to the tale , where " Chaucer " describes it as " " a litel thyng in prose " " ( VII : 937 ) , and a touch of bathos in its epilogue , the link passage leading to the Monk 's Tale , where the Host unfavourably compares his wife , with her lack of patience , with Prudence , wife of Melibee . |