Example sentences of "be [verb] either [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pasture improvement can be undertaken either by the individual crofter , after obtaining the ‘ apportionment , , of his share of the common grazing , or on a township basis . |
| 2 | The notice can be given either by the Central Authority or , to save time , directly by the competent authority . |
| 3 | Users ' apparent preference for the direct shelf approach in subject searching can be considered either as a negative response to the catalogue or as a positive response to the shelves . |
| 4 | The Castle can be approached either via a narrow path leading up the mountainside which approaches the gates directly , or by a safer and wider path which leads up to the mountain peak and a pair of half-derelict mountain gates . |
| 5 | With the onset of Big Bang , deregulation , and the formation of financial conglomerates , the problems posed by conflicts of interest have become accentuated : there is now an increased opportunity for information located within one ‘ arm ’ of a conglomerate to be misused either for the direct benefit of the conglomerate or for favoured customers . |
| 6 | Appeals can be decided either through a public inquiry or by written representations . |
| 7 | Reparation can be seen either as a desirable aim in its own right , or as a valuable but secondary aim which may be pursued when imposing punishment which is justified on other grounds ( such as reductivism ) . |
| 8 | A feature of Pauling 's theory now largely forgotten is that the chain of amino acids in a protein can , at least in principle , be twisted either to the left or the right , giving both left and right-handed helical structures . |
| 9 | The synthesiser can be used either as a melodic or as a chorus instrument . |
| 10 | This can be used either as a stand-alone facility or in combination with an overdraft and other loans . |
| 11 | The heart of this new technology is , of course , a small chip of silicon , measuring less than 10 mm. square , containing extremely complex electronic circuitry which can be used either as the central processing unit or the memory of a computer . |
| 12 | A series of workshop sessions can be commissioned either by a particular museum , or by a local authority . |
| 13 | A further Conservative victory in the early 1990s might be avoided either by an electoral pact between Labour and the Democrats , or by increased support for Labour , particularly in southern England . |
| 14 | Investment business While a summary of the Solicitors ' Investment Business Rules 1990 may be found in Chapter 12 , it is appropriate at this point to note that every firm which carries on investment business within the meaning of the Financial Services Act 1986 is required to be authorised either through a Self-Regulating Organisation ( SRO ) such as FIMBRA or through a Recognised Professional Body ( RPB ) or directly from the Securities and Investments Board . |
| 15 | In these situations the position will be governed either by the common law or the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 . |
| 16 | The second chamber could be appointed either by the Prime Minister as under the present system for the appointment of life peers or by various interest groups who would be entitled to nominate representatives . |
| 17 | This could be caused either by a genetic change which altered the relevant attaching enzymes , or by a genetic change which altered the anticodon of a tRNA molecule without altering the attachment site for the amino acid ( or vice versa ) ; such mutations do occur as rare variants . |
| 18 | If this bracing action is not achieved at the top of the backswing , it will be caused either by the right foot folding over on its side during the backswing , or the right knee moving out of alignment with the toes , before or when you arrive at the top of the swing . |
| 19 | It should be identified either in a general way with matter as understood by the corpuscularians or , more specifically , with the particular arrangements or ‘ textures ’ of corpuscles which constitute real essences . |
| 20 | Coopers & Lybrand does not believe that the ED 's proposals ‘ should be issued either in the short term or in their present form ’ . |
| 21 | The MA(Honours) lasts four years and may be taken either in a single subject , or in two subjects ( a ‘ joint ’ degree ) . |
| 22 | In a letter to Suger , Robert of Montfalcon declared that a case over whether or not a certain man was his serf should be tried either in the royal court or before the archbishop of Bourges , provided that the proceedings were in accordance with the customs of Bourges ; for him , the consuetudines of his native town had assumed the status of a law binding on outside authorities . |
| 23 | Information regarding the ownership of churches belonging to the various non-conformist sects can be obtained either from the General Secretary of the Free Church Federal Council or from the appropriate denominational headquarters . |
| 24 | This may be expressed either as a single year figure or as some form of average over the life of the project . |
| 25 | The Fourth Army could be deployed either to the northern or southern sector as circumstances dictated . |
| 26 | Linguistics may be studied either as a single honours degree or as part of a joint honours degree . |
| 27 | Should a claim arise , the money received may , at the discretion of the Company , be paid either to an injured employee or ( in the case of death ) to the deceased employee 's dependants . |
| 28 | Interest can be paid either on an annual or monthly basis and Royal Reward has tiered rates which means the more the customer invests , the higher the rate they will attract and the faster their money will grow . |
| 29 | An innocuous bachelor party can be held either at a respectable restaurant where food is served along with drink , or with food and family present at home . |
| 30 | In law , property may be held either by a natural person , or by a number of such persons , or by an incorporated body such as a company . |