Example sentences of "be both [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think they 're both regarded as fairly civilised , ’ Julius remarked . |
| 2 | We 're both , yeah we 're both try and demand respect , we both try and help people with weakness as much as possible . |
| 3 | ‘ You and Eddie , well , you 're both proof that miracles happen ! |
| 4 | Alone in their deserted rooms the models are both victimised and glorious . |
| 5 | As the mum of a 12-year-old son , we are both learning as we go along how to use the Amstrad 5086 , my son concentrating more or less on games and school related programs , myself for the odd game , but mainly word-processing ( I have just written my first book ) , genealogy and cheating on addressing the Christmas cards . |
| 6 | Dorothy Armitage ( Mrs Turk ) has moved from Manchester to Rye because she and her husband are both retired and will now be near their family in Kent . |
| 7 | In BV the RP long and short /u/ classes ( as in pool , pull ) are the same and are both realized as a short vowel ; however , the restricted lexical set of pull , bull , foot etc. , is an alternating set , rhyming alternately with cut , dull and with soon , pool , good . |
| 8 | The exact parts played by earth movements and Pleistocene changes of sea level are both involved and imperfectly understood . |
| 9 | The lights in Broad Street are both corroded and obsolete . |
| 10 | The social security system is also one of the main mechanisms through which the income inequalities between older women and men are both generated and reinforced and by which the dependence of women on men is encouraged . |
| 11 | The Treaty of Rome does not regard all state subsidies as incompatible with the Common Market ; indeed , subsidies to consumers , and aid to seriously underdeveloped areas , are both regarded as being compatible with Community law . |
| 12 | Thus there is a very wide range of intensities observed for electronic bands ; the weakest are those that are both spin and orbitally forbidden , the strongest both spin and orbitally allowed . |
| 13 | In the cinema foyer the two old ladies who run the cinema are both dispensing and receiving abuse from all sides as to the quality of the night 's offerings , Storm Over the Nile and Voodoo Woman . |
| 14 | Study skills and information technology are both designated as required cross-curricular skills , and also appear in the subject documents . |
| 15 | Thus corporate officials are both mystified as to their own crime , and misdirected as to the distribution of crime in general . |
| 16 | His treacherous relations with his friends and comrades are both confirmed and explained by the treacherous interpersonal relations that form the substance of his three major texts , Antoine Bloye Le Cheval de Troie and La Conspiration . |
| 17 | Edam and Gouda are both eaten as table cheeses and used for cooking , when they melt readily . |
| 18 | David Hudson and Katharine 's father are both hoping that she 'll get the opportunity for a quiet word in the Prime Ministerial ear . |
| 19 | True strategic visionaries are both born and made , but they are not self-made . |
| 20 | The bounds of what are perceived as futures are both blurred and expanding . |
| 21 | We are both exalted and fallen at the same time : sinful and yet given unique status in the universe of things . |
| 22 | We are both bruised and feeling stiff , but we know we 're the lucky ones . ’ |
| 23 | Shop stewards are both chosen and self-selected . |
| 24 | Relatively high use is made of the NFA recommendation , and a wider range of services are both recommended and provided . |
| 25 | ‘ I think you are both forgetting that the Pitts died by poison , ’ said Coffin . |
| 26 | As the gels are both flavoured and acidulated , they stimulate the flow of saliva which leads to the swallowing of excess saliva and gel during treatment . |
| 27 | A. and B. are both counted as complete , with zygomatic region intact ; C. is a broken skull with zygomatic intact ; and D. is a maxilla fragment lacking the zygomatic process . |
| 28 | even if they are both needed and wanted by the school . |
| 29 | For example : Chat and squabble are both spoken and informal ; lecture and menu both inform ; prescription and warrant both depend on the sender 's office . |
| 30 | The man escaped with an accomplice and they are both described as white , aged about 19 , and 5ft 8ins tall . |