Example sentences of "either a [adj] [noun] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be associated with them you must be either a square-headed German or a bearded Bolshevik . |
| 2 | They went in behind Sir George , who waved his huge cone of light around the dark , cramped , circular space , illuminating a semi-circular bay window , a roof carved with veined arches and mock-mediaeval ivy-leaves , felt-textured with dust , a box-bed with curtains still hanging , showing a dull red under their pall of particles , a fantastically carved black wooden desk , covered with beading and scrolls , and bunches of grapes and pomegranates and lilies , something that might have been either a low chair or a prie-dieu , heaps of cloth , an old trunk , two band boxes , a sudden row of staring tiny white faces , one , two , three , propped against a pillow . |
| 3 | They are usually fitted into a timber sub-frame ( hardwood , in preference to softwood ; there 's little point in fitting an indestructible door in a frame that could rot in 10 years ) , and come with either a silvery finish or a factory-applied coating in a limited range of colours . |
| 4 | The engineering unions have been seeking either a 35-hour week or a two-hour reduction . |
| 5 | Marlowe in that year was for Eliot positively either a major atheist or a major Christian , but the enchantments of Faustus were Baudelaire 's paradis artificiels . |
| 6 | For those who have never had the experience , a bothy is a hut , either a renovated ruin or a specially built shack in the heart of the wilderness that walkers can use if they need shelter . |
| 7 | In order to allow timeshare owners to exercise property rights , therefore , it is essential to form either a limited company or a club . |
| 8 | Using either a solid roller or a special Supamix roller attached to a broom handle , roll the dampened surface lightly . |
| 9 | This was available in the forms of either a treacly liquid or a dry powder . |
| 10 | Barron and Baron ( 1977 ) had children of a variety of ages compare a word with a picture to make either a rhyming decision or a meaning decision . |
| 11 | Between these times it shows either a slight rise or a general plateau ( tests of Groups 1 , 2 and 6 ) or a slight decline after a peak at about noon ( Groups 3 , 5 and 7 ) . |
| 12 | Any approaching troughs of wet weather were drawn in as lines , either a warm front or a cold front , and many isobars close together meant high winds . |
| 13 | When these two factors are put together , it is readily understandable that a request that treatment should cease should be seen as not really meant , but as merely the response to either a passing mood or a loss of mental fitness . |
| 14 | Composition : a portfolio of original compositions plus either a critical commentary or a dissertation on a related subject . |
| 15 | " José Churruca " was the boy in whom his father saw " either a great soldier or a saint " and the man who , as an army officer , fought heroically for the Nationalists ( at the head of a unit of Legionnaires ) in order to save the Fatherland from chaos and destruction . |
| 16 | ( b ) Registered land The Board will register either a substantive charge or a notice or caution , depending upon the practice of the individual Board . |
| 17 | In fact , there is no reason why ( e.g. ) homosexuals should not afford accountability and care to their partners , in the course of either a long relationship or a very short one . |
| 18 | Police said after the bomb was made safe that it was ‘ either a sheer fluke or a bloody miracle ’ that London had escaped carnage . |
| 19 | Such social aggregations may be either a feeding adaptation or a means of avoiding predation . |
| 20 | Wan and red-eyed , and nearly always male , they wore rebel chic regalia and communicated in either a hyperactive babble or a laboured monotone . |
| 21 | In English , there is at least an indirect formal reflexion of the difference , in that the phrase an old friend has as its opposite either a new friend or a young friend , depending on whether it is used as a separative or an ordinary attributive adjective . |
| 22 | The patron could be either a large client or a ‘ broker ’ , in the case here a firm of land agents . |
| 23 | The input device is either a digitising tablet or a device known as ’ electronic paper ’ . |
| 24 | The pacing of that third movement climax is one of the few weak spots in Claus Peter Flor 's interpretation — the jump forward at 8′40″ ( fig. 129 in the score ) is either a structural miscalculation or a different take , and the premature slowing at 10′12″ ( fig. 137 ) is no more effective . |
| 25 | Right now you must be able to recognise in , either a structural formula or a condensed formula you must be able to recognise existence of what is called and asymmetric centre if you are a chemist kiral centre if you are a super chemist if you are a biologist an atom bonded to different ones . |
| 26 | A word which has as an element either a past participle or a present participle , eg airborne , weatherbeaten , self-taught . |
| 27 | In Washington this week Mr Ozal made it clear that he does not want either a Kurdish state or a divided Iraq . |
| 28 | In either case safety lies in finding either a windproof covering or a sheltered corner as soon as possible . |
| 29 | And the ending of the play is tantalisingly ambivalent , representing either a fresh start or a flight from responsibility , depending on your point of view . |
| 30 | This would mean that the single nasohypophysial opening is either a convergent feature or a feature primitive for craniates . |