Example sentences of "he [be] both a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He is ideal because he is both a statesman and an artist [ he used to write rather stodgy plays ] , and we believe he shares the values we stand for , ’ says an ICA spokesman . |
| 2 | He is both a scientist trained in empirical methodology and a serious Yogi . |
| 3 | He was both a stand-in skipper and an emergency defender during Liverpool 's successful European trip to Cyprus this week . |
| 4 | Like his predecessors , he was both a barbarian warlord and ( as Eddius admitted ) ‘ a most Christian king ’ . |
| 5 | Sheepshanks , a leading figure in the Royal Astronomical Society , himself fitted into all three of his categories : he was both a lawyer and a clergyman , and did not practise either profession because he had inherited wealth from his cloth-manufacturing father . |
| 6 | He was both a symptom of , and a resource for , the revival of Classical Art in the 18th century . |
| 7 | If Shakespeare showed little inclination to control the condition of his plays ' textual printing , he was both a part owner of the company which produced them and was himself a director of that company . |
| 8 | Indeed , he was both an amateur painter and a musician in a rock band that met at weekends . |