Example sentences of "either a [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shoes and socks are tackled before trousers , and track-suit trousers with an elasticated waist would be chosen for either a male or a female patient . |
| 2 | Cousin in 1 can , of course , refer to either a male or a female cousin . |
| 3 | By the beginning of 1968 Britain was ceasing to be regarded by many Americans as either a powerful or a special ally . |
| 4 | The second requires the child to make a verbal response to either a verbal or a non-verbal stimulus and is used as a measure of the child 's ability to produce spoken language . |
| 5 | one or two members who are resident in St Albans did ask me about their position on item two St Albans Transport Study er the advice that I gave them was that unless they er did which is likely to be affected by any identifiable schemes in the study they do not have a need to declare either a pecuniary or a non-pecuniary interest . |
| 6 | With stable macro policies of either a monetary or a fiscal kind , rational expectations on behalf of economic agents mean that such agents fully appreciate the signals that trigger government policy and the prescriptions that follow , internalizing this into their behaviour . |
| 7 | Awards may be held on either a full-time or a part-time basis . |
| 8 | You can choose either a fixed or a floating interest rate at the start and can switch between them during your loan . |
| 9 | You can choose either a fixed or a floating interest rate at the start and can switch between them during the loan . |
| 10 | They are secured by either a fixed or a floating charge against the assets of the company . |
| 11 | Unsecured loan stocks are corporate bonds that are not secured by either a fixed or a floating charge . |
| 12 | The central research question is whether wartime training altered women 's position in the labour market on either a temporary or a permanent basis . |
| 13 | The scientists and technicians who were responsible for running the vessel were all ranking members of the Imperial Survey Service ; but that did not mean that they had the slightest notion about running either a tight or a tidy ship . |
| 14 | These societies would have the duty of distributing the dividends from the shares on either a universal or a restricted basis . |
| 15 | And the chance of getting either a red or a blue , If I say , Here you are , I 'm gon na you 've got this bag and it 's got three blue and one red in it . |
| 16 | ‘ Either a Tory or a Labour minority government will look at the next election down the track and say , ‘ Hang on , we ai n't going to win ’ . ’ |
| 17 | These particles may carry either a positive or a negative electrical charge , or may be electrically neutral ; some have mass or weight , others appear to be weightless . |
| 18 | Expectation has been shown to influence the outcome of even the most carefully controlled double-blind trial in either a positive or a negative direction . |
| 19 | I studied at the Scuole Medie in the Istituto Melloni , which would enable me , after four years , to choose either a classical or a scientific education by taking the appropriate examination . |
| 20 | He is often lambasted for his failure to give the works he conducts structural cohesion ; I have never thought this was either a fair or a perceptive criticism . |
| 21 | One difference this time was that each of the parents was accompanied by either a senior or a junior Counsel . |
| 22 | Delayed increases in rotation rate have not previously been observed in glitches in any pulsar , on either a short or a long timescale . |
| 23 | Initial domiciliary assessments are carried out by either a medical or a non-medical team member by using a semistructured schedule that guides them through the various clinical , functional , social , and other components of the assessment . |
| 24 | Sisters were categorised by Orton ( 1980 ) as having either a high or a low student orientation . |
| 25 | The only variable that they can revise directly in either an upward and a downward direction is the money wage rate , but revisions of the money wage rate will have no direct effect on the real wage rate owing to the sympathetic variations in the general level of prices that they would provoke . |
| 26 | Analysis of ozone measurements for the 1970s , taken by 36 Dobson spectrophotometers throughout the world , reveal no evidence for either an upward or a downward trend , either on a global basis or on a regional basis ( Reinsel , 1981 ; Reinsel et al. , 1981 ) . |
| 27 | The extent to which the exchange rate can contribute to the adjustment mechanism , in either an automatic or a discretionary manner , is influenced by the type of exchange rate system in operation . |
| 28 | The ownership of newspapers has rarely been seen as either an easy or a sure way of acquiring fortunes . |
| 29 | In judging this record there has been a strong tendency among commentators , from either an economic or a political viewpoint , to award the Labour government good marks for achievement [ Morgan , 1984 ; Cairncross , 1985 ] . |
| 30 | Well it might be that this turns out to be an extremely successful gamble , and Branson has expanded Virgin into a world recovery , or it may be that this airline runs into more serious financial difficulties in the middle of the decade , and it either contracts or it sells out to either an American or a continental European carrier . |