Example sentences of "to be both [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think President Premadasa read the signals correctly , and realised that if people 's needs were to be met , media had to be both liberated and liberalised . |
| 2 | Its introduction into British schools for the deaf , first by the Rev. Thomas Arnold at Northampton in 1868 then by Mr. William Van Praagh at 11 , Fitzroy Square , London in 1872 , rapidly spread , especially after 1880 , until it came to be both detested and feared by leading deaf people everywhere who saw that it could — and indeed as it did — seriously damage the systems of education that had served so well since the growth of deaf education . |
| 3 | Llewellyn-Jones ( 1981a ) also looked at lag behind the speaker and though his concern was for individual comparison , a general conclusion is that the usual 2 — 3 seconds lag of the BSL interpreter behind the speaker is not sufficient for the message to be both understood and presented to the audience in a form which can be understood . |
| 4 | ALAN Ball piped up at Richmond Town FC 's annual extravaganza on Friday evening , standing on a chair so as to be both seen and heard . |
| 5 | One aspect of the TDC policy which seems to me to be both enlightened and enduring is the trouble which is taken to identify markets for work projects , particularly from the public sector , which again may sound surprising in capitalist Texas . |
| 6 | A text description of the item(s) covered by the record should allow the information to be both recorded and retrieved without having to split it between several records . |
| 7 | Miasms are now recognized to be both inherited and acquired ; and often a specific remedy called a nosode , which is related to the infection in question , is required before a chronic condition can be entirely cleared up . |
| 8 | But he certainly wanted the church to be both united and free of heresy . |
| 9 | These are not just art objects , but furniture to be both used and admired . |
| 10 | In December Honda introduced in America a new Accord station wagon , the first Japanese car to be both designed and built abroad . |
| 11 | A socalled abstract or dance ballet has to be both thought and felt if the partnership between the often-dead composer and the living interpreters is to make sense . |
| 12 | Given that the original model is assumed to be both closed and in equilibrium , there is no surplus constant capital to draw upon . |
| 13 | The federal parliament has now agreed to allow some 300 of the pesticide formulations to be both sold and used in the eastern states until the end of 1994 . |
| 14 | Similarly , PGE 2 synthesis has been reported to be both reduced and increased in patients with superficial gastritis . |
| 15 | ‘ Hardly , but I do admit to being both baffled and intrigued . |