Example sentences of "either an [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The ownership of newspapers has rarely been seen as either an easy or a sure way of acquiring fortunes . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | 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 . |