Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [prep] both " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liz Trickett and Frankie Sulke report on the effects of the LAMP ( Low Attainers in Mathematics ) and RAMP ( Raising Achievement in Mathematics ) projects on both the teachers and pupils who participated , providing a challenge to all teachers to examine their views about both what their pupils are capable of and what mathematics is and should be about . |
| 2 | Information will be collected upon the psychological and social characteristics of respondents ; their understanding of science and technology ( with special reference to changes ) , their attitudes to both ; and their personal and social activities relating to science and technology . |
| 3 | By Edward I 's reign ( 1272–1307 ) the continental possessions of his house had shrunk to a fraction of their former vast extent — by 1290 they consisted solely of the duchy of Aquitaine and comté of Ponthieu — but the notion that the Plantagenets had a continental role to play remained firmly embedded in their minds and in those of their subjects on both sides of the Channel . |
| 4 | Stray bullets flying across their heads from both trenches ensured that they kept themselves low to the ground . |
| 5 | The organisers and the participants in the workshop wish to extend their thanks to both the sponsors and the funders for their support . |
| 6 | The Lords of the West Marches and their Commissioners from both sides of the border , wherever that was thought to be at the time , met there to resolve complaints and grievances . |
| 7 | In the mid-term elections on Nov. 6 , the Democrats improved their majorities in both houses of Congress , making a net gain of one seat in the Senate and of eight seats in the House of Representatives . |
| 8 | Some governing bodies may consider that their needs at both levels presently are satisfied or that they have advised us of their requirements . |
| 9 | Comprised of Brian Dunning of Nightnoise , Tommy Hayes ( ex- Stocktons Wing ) , Jimmy Faulkner ( ex-Fleadh Cowboys ) and Robbie Overson of Scullion , the band 's fusion of trad , jazz and folkedup rock has had critics singing their praises on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 10 | The computer quickly came to the conclusion that , taking the IQ levels on my own planet into consideration , Einstein and Newton ‘ could n't find their bottoms with both hands and a flashlight . ’ |
| 11 | From then on , my archers with their powerful torches swept their beams over both cavities , and all those snow-white commandos — the white cells of my immune system — flooded down to right and left . |
| 12 | The Bill will be a special one in that the political parties are allowing their members in both Houses a free vote because the issue is deemed to be one of conscience . |
| 13 | The boys are expected to go to Eton , spending their holidays with both parents . |
| 14 | The second part of the work will look at spatial variations in political attitudes and their links to both individual social attributes and voting behaviour . |
| 15 | Note also from table 10.2 ( last figure in fifth row ) that it is not totally unheard of for couples to share the rearing of their children by both working part-time , but the number involved was minute — 9000 in the whole of England and Wales in 1981 . |
| 16 | They and the popular movement have their roots in both the growth of nationalist fervour in the late 1960s and early 1970s , which parallelled the growth of anti-colonial and ‘ Third World ’ nationalist movements elsewhere , and in the call from the leadership of the Catholic church during the same period for ‘ a preferential option for the poor ’ which gave a new focus to the efforts of church organizations in this predominantly Catholic country . |