Example sentences of "[noun] both for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recent studies have expressed cautious optimism both for screening and for the use of adjuvant therapy , yet closer examination raises as many doubts as hopes . |
| 2 | Large-scale industries in pre-railway days needed canal-side sites both for bringing in their coal and other raw materials and for taking away their heavy products . |
| 3 | Compensation both for planning restrictions ( in cases where a claim had been admitted ) and for compulsory purchase by public authorities was to be paid on the basis of existing use plus any admitted 1947 development value , but private sales would be at current market prices . |
| 4 | The grants applied to houses both for letting and selling , and the local authorities were empowered also to give help to private builders . |
| 5 | I use the Park both for walking and as a motorist , but more frequently for cycling , and I write on behalf of ‘ Spokes ’ and Edinburgh cyclists in general . |
| 6 | The situation in the islands is now fundamentally different because of the existence of Comhairle nan Eilean — the Western Isles Islands Authority — which has much greater resources both for investigating local problems and doing something to solve them , than any voluntary organisation possibly could , but the question remains whether the technique devised by the Lewis Association still has validity . |
| 7 | Salt was used in Jesus 's day both for flavouring and preserving . |
| 8 | The F-Plan recipes , meal suggestions and charts on the following pages give you plenty of scope both for doing your own thing and eating your own thing , whether it is something as simple as beans on toast or a sandwich , or something considerably more adventurous . |
| 9 | Therefore I compromise and send her to Calcutta with her grandmother and suffer pangs of guilt both for packing her off and for conforming to my elitist background . |
| 10 | The actual system is generally placed in an enclosure , which provides a means both for keeping moisture in and for preventing volatile organic compounds from leaving without treatment . |
| 11 | Indeed , in 1781 the philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote a monumental and very obscure work , The Critique of Pure Reason , in which he concluded that there were equally valid arguments both for believing that the universe had a beginning and for believing that it did not . |
| 12 | Designers looking for examples of how to code randomizing algorithms should consult Snader , who gives examples of various functions coded in Fortran , Basic and Pascal ; Morris , who gives Fortran code both for chaining and hashing ; and Johnson and Cooper , who provide comprehensive coded examples in COBOL . |
| 13 | Julie 's hand was shaking as she pushed the key into the ignition but she sucked in a deep breath and started the car , checking her rear-view mirror both for approaching traffic and , more particularly , for that Granada . |
| 14 | Competence in English is an unquestioned asset both for learning and in employment . |
| 15 | In R. leguminosarum , which colonises peas , genes both for recognising the right species of host plant and for fixing nitrogen reside on plasmids . |
| 16 | Inevitably , policy failures were attributed to the government and its officials , when the blame lay more widely with the whole of the community and in particular with the strong British dislike both for rethinking an entire situation and for the radical changes that might have to follow from such a reconsideration . |
| 17 | I will emphasize the graphical nature of the Chart data structure , and the usefulness of such a structure both for representing linguistic data , and for analyzing the results of linguistic processing . |