Example sentences of "either a [adj] or 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 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The ownership of newspapers has rarely been seen as either an easy or a sure way of acquiring fortunes . |
| 28 | 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 ] . |
| 29 | 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 . |