Example sentences of "[to-vb] both [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was on good terms with Marcus , content to know both that they would talk again , and that it was impossible to do so at the moment . |
| 2 | Yet how can we get a picture of the way in which it is possible to accept both that a task is done by rules ( for it is certainly not done randomly ) and yet the performer has no access whatever to the rules ? |
| 3 | A genuine case for abolition , if it is so based , needs to establish both that the alleged abuses are as stated and that they are endemic to the practice ; thus unavoidable . |
| 4 | It aims to secure both that the consumer is not misled and also that he is not left in ignorance of matters of which he should lie informed . |
| 5 | I should like to see both that and the use of know-how funds extended . |
| 6 | But it should be possible by careful organisation to arrange both that the patient gets the best care , and that the learner gains the experience she needs . |
| 7 | Leaving aside the possibility of the parental duty being satisfied by the child being efficiently ( and so on ) educated ‘ otherwise ’ than at school , in view of its relative practical insignificance , parents are under a legal obligation to ensure both that the child receives a proper education and , if registered at school , that s/he attends regularly ( Education Act 1944 , section 39 ) . |
| 8 | It should be possible for clergy and teachers to ensure both that churches include some of the school 's repertoire in their own , and that schools make room in their assemblies for some traditional hymns . |
| 9 | The government was also particularly anxious in an election year to ensure both that the benefits of the scheme were recognised and that accusations that they were encouraging the development of a two tier service were not substantiated . |
| 10 | The effective management of the information at the time of creation is vital to ensure both that the successive teams do not ‘ re-invent the wheel ’ and that the corporate memory does not suffer . |
| 11 | Those who imagine that they see the spectre of euthanasia raising its head look with particular misgiving at the doctor 's decision to discontinue ventilation.4 Those lawyers who have given the issue their attention have accepted the common factual assumption that turning off a ventilator is significant , and have then sought legal arguments by which to justify it.5 For they have had to recognize both that it is a common medical practice , and that it is one which prima facie calls for some justification . |
| 12 | Critics were quick to complain both that the available evidence supported conflicting theories equally well and , more radically , that the ‘ evidence ’ varied in interpretation between theories . |
| 13 | As a male student once pointed out to me in a moment of inspiration , it does n't make sense to say both that women 's talk is trivial and that it is ‘ deep ’ compared to men 's . |
| 14 | He therefore sought to prove both that the structures of history were necessarily dialectical and that the course of actual history could be shown to be so . |