Both and – English Grammar Profiler

In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 17 in CONJUNCTIONS/coordinating is defined as:

‘BOTH AND’ to combine phrases and clauses, often for emphasis.

For example:

You come up with this framework to guide the way through both the story and the data.

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In the iWeb corpus we can run up to 4 wildcards with different combinations:
'both * * and * *'

1 BOTH MEN AND WOMEN 28482 2 BOTH ON AND OFF 13750 3 BOTH YOU AND YOUR 13393

4 BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE 11752

5 BOTH MALE AND FEMALE 9349 (most common collocate: ‘organs’)

6 BOTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE 7792 7 BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER 7613 8 BOTH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL 7538 9 BOTH GOOD AND BAD 7273

10 BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE 7086

1 BOTH THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS 2108 2 BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD . 1448 3 BOTH A BLESSING AND A CURSE 1419 4 BOTH MEN ‘S AND WOMEN ‘S 1059 5 BOTH THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECTORS 973 6 BOTH THE GOOD AND THE BAD 763 7 BOTH THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE 753 8 BOTH THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR 729 9 BOTH THE FRONT AND BACK OF 717

10 BOTH THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS 717

1 BOTH THE MEN ‘S AND WOMEN 1388

2 BOTH IN THE UK AND INTERNATIONALLY 576

3 BOTH IN THE UK AND ABROAD 569 4 BOTH IN THE UK AND OVERSEAS 533 5 BOTH THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA 517 6 BOTH THE UNITED STATES AND THE 473 7 BOTH IN THE U.S. AND ABROAD 416 8 BOTH IN FRONT OF AND BEHIND 409 9 BOTH AS DECIMAL FRACTION AND IN 371

10 BOTH IN THE CLASSROOM AND IN 361

1 BOTH IN THE UNITED STATES AND 1620 2 BOTH MEN AND WOMEN , AND 646 3 BOTH THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND 259 4 BOTH IN TERMS OF TIME AND 207 5 BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC AND 206 6 BOTH IN THE SHORT TERM AND 201 7 BOTH SIDES OF THE BALL AND 201 8 BOTH AT THE SAME TIME AND 197 9 BOTH HERE IN THE UK AND 194

10 BOTH PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY , AND 155