Example sentences of "it [verb] both a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social anthropologists have had great difficulty in giving a clear definition of taboo , because it involves both an element of the sacred , the holy , and of the uncanny , the forbidden , and the dangerous . |
| 2 | But the growing interest in it suggests that it offers both a possible way out of present impasses and a way forward . |
| 3 | It includes both an ObjectMaster Editor for non-programmers to build graphical apps and an ObjectMaster Application Folder that acts as a central repository for application modules that can be reused , recombined or extended to build additional application prototypes and ultimately components in production applications . |
| 4 | This is helpful in pointing to long-term shifts in sexual norms in the last century ( though its dating is misleading ) , but it combines both an evolutionist teleology ( with the present appearing as little more than a culmination of ineluctable historical trends ) and a use of the metaphor of repression which in the end is emotive rather than analytical and obscures more than it reveals . |
| 5 | Physical mapping of genomes by constucting ordered libraries of overlapping clones is an essential step in the analysis of the information contained in the genomic DNA sequence , since it gives both a high resolution map of the genome and easy access to the cloned DNA for molecular analysis of genes , transcripts and regulatory sequences . |
| 6 | I was surprised it had both a sunroof and air conditioning as they seem to me to cancel each other out . |
| 7 | Modern technology and the discourses of knowledge associated with it represent both a threat to society and a possible means of expanding human consciousness . |