Example sentences of "could [vb infin] both [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later still he got an oil engine ; and people at that time could buy both coal and oil from the miller . ’ |
| 2 | Derby , with six successive wins , could have both Blades and Goddard back after injury . |
| 3 | The railway could take both passengers and freight off the roads reducing the need for a bypass . |
| 4 | Gillroy could hear both Darwin and Koepang , but they could not hear him . |
| 5 | Now , with new carts , he could drag both water and food to where they were needed . |
| 6 | It could mean both Wright and Merson being involved in some stage of the match at Anfield , as there must be doubts over both strikers lasting the full 90 minutes . |
| 7 | Although he had influenced popes and kings , he ended his life as a disappointed man , mourning the passage of a simpler world in which a bishop could serve both church and monarchy . |
| 8 | As a social group they could record both gains and losses from war , and there has been some debate among historians about how far a balance sheet can be struck for the country as a whole , whether England gained or lost from its military operations . |
| 9 | ‘ If we simply sit back and do nothing , we could lose both mother and baby . |
| 10 | The great advantage of Realism was that it could justify both accommodation and the building up of armaments in the name of a balance of power . |
| 11 | It could involve both satellite and ground base station wireless local area — and eventually wide-area networking . |
| 12 | Science could offer both sanctuary and its own brand of sanctification . |
| 13 | ‘ Anti-statist ’ ideas of consumerism and individual citizen responsibility may be respectable enough , but government seems to have not much further to say — beyond a vaguely humanitarian appeal to the ‘ social market ’ : it develops as yet publicly no vision of coherent aims , no serious analysis of pressing social and economic issues , their territories and their boundaries , no perception of the system flexibility that could satisfy both ideology and the real national need for effective progress . |
| 14 | It was in any event difficult to see what compromise could satisfy both Buenos Aires and London . |
| 15 | One bedroom was ready as a classroom , desks and typewriters had been installed , and Miss Aitchison , who could teach both shorthand and typing and had diplomas to prove it , had been hired . |
| 16 | A church could derive both prestige and wealth from possessing the relics of a major saint , whose devotees were expected to be generous in their donations of land and precious metal . |