Example sentences of "at both " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively , they need tying down securely at both ends . |
| 2 | Practising in a motor glider with a knowledgeable and competent cross-country pilot is the best way to gain experience quickly at both selecting and field landing procedures . |
| 3 | You will either go to an antenatal clinic at the hospital , or to your doctor 's surgery or health centre , or you may attend at both places under a ‘ Shared Care ’ scheme . |
| 4 | The chair has to come to rest at the bottom of the stairs and you need room to get on and off at both ends . |
| 5 | There is plenty of individual instruction available at both the Palmer school ( 25 pros ) and at the Hopman tennis academy ( 30 pros ) . |
| 6 | It is easy to cheat when quoting from these early cantos : either by imposing a seeming self-closure on passages that are in fact open at both ends , or ( and as well ) by presenting a lyrically appealing passage as typical of the whole . |
| 7 | Football has always been played at both ends , a fact made significant by Robson 's assertion that England were forced to fight a rearguard action in Chorzow . |
| 8 | It opens at both ends and fastens with drawcords . |
| 9 | That is what happened at both Imperial Typewriters in Leicester and at Mansfield Hosiery in Loughborough . |
| 10 | But as you are determined to live it up and have a good time , you must watch your health and try not to burn the candle at both ends . |
| 11 | As thoughts turn to booking a place in the holiday sun , Money Guardian looks at both the costs and savings of taking a break . |
| 12 | For many years , old time Northern Irish comedian Jimmy Young did work there , cutting across the divide with a brand of comedy that hit at both sides . |
| 13 | But oil traders said there would be no immediate impact as there were storage facilities with at least eight days supply at both ends of the pipeline system . |
| 14 | He was not reassured by hearing Bruce Davidson in the passage cheerily observing to Catherine that she was looking a bittie pale ; was it just the London air , or had she been burning the candle at both ends ? |
| 15 | With even-handed ridicule , John Mortimer spends much of this novel making you laugh at both . |
| 16 | Just now the intentions of the Bundesbank and the Fed are especially unclear , because of arguments at both institutions over who is in charge . |
| 17 | Edward early knew the deficiency of his letters to Hooton : ‘ It is a weariness to fumble for truth and completeness , and after all to feel the failure at both . |
| 18 | If we knew how it was produced , for example not by moving a pencil round on one end of a taut thread , but along one fixed at both ends , we could conclude that it really is an ellipse and not a circle . |
| 19 | Thousands of flags were waving , helium balloons were going up and air balloons were coming down , two separate bands at both ends of the huge auditorium were playing different songs and everyone was cheering and screaming their heads off . |
| 20 | All Mr Landor and the other lodgers cared about was that their rooms should be kept clean and their food brought on time , and she was expert at both . |
| 21 | Often , the best way to prove a mathematical theorem is to start at both ends , and try to meet in the middle . |
| 22 | The tree onion , Allium cepa Prolifera , produces its bulbs at both ends of the plant , and is fine for culinary use . |
| 23 | Books : Why violence and the vote no longer mix Brutality was once part of the British way of life at both ends of the class system , explains Paul Langford |
| 24 | Chances galore at both ends could have produced a scoreline usually reserved for end-of-season testimonials . |
| 25 | The deal , which involves sharing the costs of catering and maintenance at both Zaventem airport in Brussels and Paris , is attractive because it gives access to slots at Brussels airport , seen as a future hub for travel to 70 cities around Europe . |
| 26 | The seed of Hypericum monogynum , also from China , was raised successfully at both gardens and ‘ Morus papyreia ’ ( i.e. Broussonetia papyrifera , the paper-mulberry ) from Japan , was another successful novelty to thrive well in the open at Chelsea as , in fact , did many mountain subjects . |
| 27 | My candle burns at both ends . |
| 28 | Instead of being about the size and shape of a coin , the fusulines are spindle-shaped , with a round cross-section tapering at both ends ; fusuline limestones again form thick rock sequences , particularly in Russia and the Orient . |
| 29 | They are the only molluscs with a truly tubular shell , usually gently curved , with an opening at both ends . |
| 30 | This has often been criticised because we are told that in drawing an analogy we normally know ‘ both sides ’ that we are comparing ( eg ‘ does n't he look like a horse ? ’ , where we can look at both and judge ) , whereas in this case we can only look at one side , the object that we are comparing with God . |