Example sentences of "both [vb pp] and [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aveling eyeing hats and legs in the dining car , both fascinated and repelled by mid-western accents . |
| 2 | She seemed both fascinated and repelled by our ‘ old fogeyness ’ and delivered her opinions , whether sought or unsought , with unvarnished bluntness . |
| 3 | Her headdress made from slipper satin and lace was trimmed with pearls and worn with a three tier long veil , both designed and made by Wizard of Goz in Kensington . |
| 4 | The firing is both preceded and followed by blatant cronyism . |
| 5 | There had been times when Cadfael had both departed and returned by night , without passing the gatehouse , on urgent matters in which he found justification for absence . |
| 6 | Ozone is both made and destroyed by photochemical reactions in the troposphere , the balance depending on the availability of nitrogen oxides and other gases , particularly hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide . |
| 7 | Consequently revenue is recognised as having been earned when sales are made and not when the debt is settled , and the balance sheet will therefore including details of pre-payments both made and received by the company . |
| 8 | Peter Beneventanus Collivaccinus ' Collection , known as the Compilatio Tertia , was both approved and commended by the pope to the masters and scholars of Bologna for use " as much in judgments as in the schools " . |
| 9 | even if they are both needed and wanted by the school . |
| 10 | Indian culture is still imagined as timeless , forever corresponding to a primitive stage of European history and art history ; but the Indian tradition was both amplified and transformed by contact with the pioneers . |
| 11 | Concern about social conditions was both reflected and reinforced by a mass of polemical writing , in newspapers , such as the radical Pall Mall Gazette , in pamphlets , such as Andrew Mearns ' Bitter Cry of Outcast London ( 1883 ) , describing and attacking poverty especially in the London slums . |
| 12 | This kind of ability is both envied and disparaged by many Continental musicians , and it can not be doubted that professional English singers often perform music which they have not had time to ‘ learn ’ in any sense of the term that a European singer would accept . |
| 13 | It is important that the power of these opinion shapers is both recognised and utilised by the head in bringing about positive change . |
| 14 | He finds a means of using the language of both physical experience and Scripture in an anagogical sense whereby mystical experience may be both recognised and shared by those to whom it is known , and to some extent desired , because imagined , by others less involved . |
| 15 | Molyneux was both sponsored and trained by his forerunner , who came to be his mentor ( Knebworth , no date , p.31 ) . |
| 16 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 17 | She was both saddened and angered by his terse answer . |
| 18 | According to government rhetoric , regeneration could be both represented and encouraged by this exercise — a form of pump-priming to stimulate organic and economic growth . |
| 19 | To assert that conduct is orderly is , from our point of view , to imply that it is directed by a sense of social propriety — that not only is it non-random but that it is both generated and limited by prescriptions and the possibility of sanction , in particular the sanction of expressed disapproval . |
| 20 | When she went to look round she was both daunted and enchanted by its dark , gloomy interior which was mostly painted green and seemed to be trapped in a 19th-century time warp . |
| 21 | Lipski was both shocked and impressed by the offer . |
| 22 | Elean:In your situation , you need a common language to help break down the divisions being both aggravated and imposed by the racist regime . |
| 23 | Its introduction into British schools for the deaf , first by the Rev. Thomas Arnold at Northampton in 1868 then by Mr. William Van Praagh at 11 , Fitzroy Square , London in 1872 , rapidly spread , especially after 1880 , until it came to be both detested and feared by leading deaf people everywhere who saw that it could — and indeed as it did — seriously damage the systems of education that had served so well since the growth of deaf education . |
| 24 | Now Joan , having a fondness for the prince , was both flattered and heartened by this disclosure . |
| 25 | A consciousness of belonging to a coherent professional group was both expressed and strengthened by the appearance , from the mid-nineteenth century onwards , of guides and yearbooks which for the first time listed the diplomats and foreign office officials in the service of most of the European states . |
| 26 | His treacherous relations with his friends and comrades are both confirmed and explained by the treacherous interpersonal relations that form the substance of his three major texts , Antoine Bloye Le Cheval de Troie and La Conspiration . |
| 27 | The Jet was owned by Colonial Alliance of New York City , and was both managed and operated by Hansa Jet of Ft. |
| 28 | This new framework is both endorsed and supplemented by the Utting report of last August . |
| 29 | Since the 555 timer IC1 can be both triggered and reset by grounding pins 2 and 4 respectively , these functions have been combined into one control S1 , a single-pole biased centre-off toggle . |