Example sentences of "[pron] both way " in BNC.

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1 That he succeeds in having it both ways is our experience of reading his novel in its dominant and thriller aspect .
2 But one can not have it both ways : for UK wastes ( the import of wastes for landfill is now outlawed ) the options are landfill or incineration , and people local to either hate the one near them .
3 It is , I suppose , one manifestation of man 's indomitable urge to ‘ have it both ways at once ’ .
4 Having tried it both ways , I am more comfortable with the single act approach , and in the history of rock management , that has generally been the most successful route .
5 He really can not have it both ways .
6 There are too many club owners who think that they can play it both ways .
7 It is also a blatant bid to have it both ways .
8 She could n't have it both ways .
9 Having it both ways , it was clearly aimed to assuage the consumer 's guilt .
10 What they can not do is to have it both ways .
11 Much of this could be as plausibly argued today as thirty or more years ago : the extraordinary achievement of the public relations advisers who replaced the ‘ ludicrous courtiers ’ has been to ensure that the royal family do still have it both ways .
12 Rooney can not have it both ways .
13 Thus A Very British Coup fails because , according to Pearce ‘ it wants to have it both ways ’ , and instead of ‘ owning up to being fantastic tosh , it tried to be incredibly realistic ’ ( Chris Tookey , The Sunday Telegraph , 26 June 1988 ) .
14 As he reached the door , with a variety of helpful obstructions he shouted his Parthian shot — ‘ You ca n't bloody have it both ways … ’
15 ‘ Nichols and his writers wanted it both ways .
16 You ca n't have it both ways .
17 We may take the ambiguity to imply that Wordsworth was unwilling to admit that the visionary gleam was entirely self-deception , and was trying to have it both ways .
18 They can not have it both ways and , at the moment , by making such demands they are unwittingly pushing the game towards professionalism .
19 Sarah has tried it both ways .
20 Apparently one can not have it both ways .
21 Mannheim 's relationism seemed to his detractors like a hollow promise , an attempt to have it both ways .
22 You ca n't have it both ways . ’
23 But countries can not have it both ways : the cost of a cleaner environment may sometimes be fewer jobs in dirty industries , which will migrate to less environmentally sensitive lands .
24 Could it have it both ways ?
25 Matisse comes at the end of a tradition of Renaissance illusionism and volumetric painting which is irrevocably shifting into something different and he wants it both ways , just as Giotto wanted it both ways .
26 Matisse comes at the end of a tradition of Renaissance illusionism and volumetric painting which is irrevocably shifting into something different and he wants it both ways , just as Giotto wanted it both ways .
27 Sociologists can not have it both ways : either Freud has to be examined alongside the founders of sociology , or they all have to be dismissed as unscientific thinkers .
28 She knew this hedge well , having jumped it both ways innumerable times .
29 Critics of regulation from the standpoint of economic theory can not have it both ways .
30 Since this shot occurs in two different scenes , maybe he tried it both ways , but it looks the same in each , tough repeated inspection fails to disclose conclusively which of the two possibilities it actually is .
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