Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] both a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Full-time football and a career at a more glamorous club were both a matter of time . |
| 2 | In itself , the horse was both an arm and a sign of social distinction , as well as a means of transport . |
| 3 | Destutt 's science of ideas was both a scientific study and an aid to policy making through identifying errors in understanding the ways of the world ( Lichtheim 1967 : 8 ) . |
| 4 | It acknowledged that education was both a consumption and investment . |
| 5 | The vine was the symbol of fruitfulness or blessing , so a ‘ fruitful ’ wife was both a blessing to her husband and the bearer of his children . |
| 6 | Experimentalism was both a rediscovery and a quest for new . |
| 7 | Le Destin des Malou ( The Fate of the Malous ) , for example , begins with the mysterious suicide of Eugene Malou , a bankrupt businessman , and the rest of the novel is concerned with his younger son 's discovery that his father was both a crook and , as one of his criminal friends puts it , ‘ a man . |
| 8 | By the end of March this had been " refined " further : from then onwards , Franco 's war of attrition was both a military inevitability and a punishment for the Republic 's resistance . |
| 9 | In 1960 , when Gen Noriega was both a cadet at an elite military academy in Peru and a spy-in-training for the US Defence Intelligence Agency , he was detained for allegedly raping and savagely beating a prostitute . |
| 10 | The approach adopted by the Board and its parent bodies was both a response to the Crick recommendations and acceptable to the appropriate institutes for exemption and to the employers . |
| 11 | Few realized that Depailler and Hunt were both a lap down on Andretti . |
| 12 | It was also generally believed that , while good works could never of themselves merit salvation , the leading of a saintly life was both a consequence and a sign of one 's elect status . |
| 13 | Having washed his hands of her , her GP expressed the view that her visit to the Centre was both a waste of money and time . |
| 14 | The affair was both a personal and a professional humiliation and she looked as though she could cry . |
| 15 | The attitude of the airport guard , and the careless banter of the cab driver were both a sign of the times and the rot which seemed to have set in . |
| 16 | And when the babies were both a ripe four-plus , and she did indeed go off to Peking and left them with me , the ensuing fun made me wonder sometimes whether I was their father , which is no question to put , since the answer should be proffered , I suppose . |
| 17 | That amateurism was both a code of ethics and a system of status was borne out by the fact that ‘ amateur ’ was often used in conjunction with ‘ gentleman ’ . |
| 18 | Part 5 considered two contending theories of perversion and homosexuality , one deriving from psychoanalysis , the other from anthropological , sociological , and historical perspectives , in which Foucault 's History of Sexuality was both a culmination and a new departure . |
| 19 | The Home Support Project was both an action project ( to provide a service for elderly people with dementia which would help those who wished to remain at home rather than be admitted to an institution ) and a research project ( to evaluate the success of the action project ) . |
| 20 | Papworth was both a prolific and multifarious designer . |
| 21 | It recognized that forests were both a national resource in the sense of providing timber , food and fuel , for the country concerned , and a global resource , valuable both as a " bank " of genetic diversity ( particularly plant-derived medicines ) , and as a " carbon sink " , absorbing CO2 which would otherwise contribute to the greenhouse effect . |
| 22 | It recognized that forests were both a national resource in the sense of providing timber , food and fuel , for the country concerned , and a global resource , valuable both as a " bank " of genetic diversity ( particularly plant-derived medicines ) , and as a " carbon sink , " absorbing CO2 which would otherwise contribute to the greenhouse effect . |
| 23 | BELOW : Lovedays Mill at Painswick during the 18th century was both a fulling and grist mill . |
| 24 | The social interaction between the two groups was both a major benefit that emerged , and a major justification for the project . |
| 25 | As walnut was both an exceedingly expensive and difficult wood to work , few if any coffin-makers would have kept it in stock or have possessed the expertise to fashion it . |
| 26 | Making overtures towards another who mirrored our own disquieting and long-buried Chinese identity was both a fearful and exciting prospect , and neither of us quite got up the nerve to take the initiative . |
| 27 | For a while they strolled in silence before Corbett began to ask the Prior about his vocation to the monastic life , enjoying the sardonic replies and surprised to find that the Prior was both a distant kinsman to Robert Bruce and a keen herbalist , interested in medicine , with a passion for concocting samples , potions and cures . |
| 28 | Mandell depicts him thus : ‘ a self-effacing gentleman , Jesse Owens was both a paragon and a refutation and therefore was considered ‘ a credit to his race ’ ’ ( 1971 , p.225 ) . |
| 29 | In his racing days , Clay was both a crazy and a hard man . |
| 30 | Under the republic the forum was both a market place surrounded by shops and a public meeting place . |