Example sentences of "[prep] [be] both " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old , or unearned , money tends to be neither acquisitive nor outward-going , whereas new money tends to be both . |
| 2 | Following the collapse of Novell Inc 's latest negotiation for a bigger piece of Unix System Labs , folks close to the fire are saying that Roel Pieper 's outfit should decide one way or the other whether it wants to be a binary player or a research and development outfit ( UX No 404 ) , because it is n't big enough to be both . |
| 3 | It 's ungrateful to want to be both . ’ |
| 4 | It faced in fifty-seven directions at once , but kept from the old American contingent , and from the anarchic underground , dislike of any political organization , a terror of being bored , or boring , and a tendency , at times , to be both , and incomprehensible with it . |
| 5 | It is equally clear — the right hon. Gentleman has not refuted this — that , in fact , the £35 billion spending commitment of the Labour party would mean either a very big increase in income tax and/or a very big increase in VAT , and it would be likely to be both . |