Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just aft of the fire a small motorboat was still secured to its davits : it was n't difficult to guess that either the explosion or the fire had rendered it inoperable . |
| 2 | ‘ Lieutenant Denholm is miscast as either a classicist or electronics officer . |
| 3 | Nor do I think that either the father or the court were exercising any rights of custody at the time of the removal . |
| 4 | It seemed that wherever a wall or something similar could be built , one had appeared . |
| 5 | Lord Lyons , the British Ambassador in Paris , told the Foreign Office on two separate occasions that ‘ I do not believe that either the Emperor or his Ministers either wish for war or expect it . ’ |
| 6 | Goldstein ( 1963 ) has shown that either the enthalpy or the entropy may be used to derive an equation of the WLF type , and that if either excess enthalpy He or excess entropy Se were used to determine Tg then whereas if excess volume Ve determines Tg we should expect . |
| 7 | The Editor agreed and so a day or two later my edited statement was published in Burmese on the front page of the New Light of Burma in a translation which U Khin Maung , my talented and faithful Information Officer , approved . |
| 8 | More than half of them have now perished and only a score or more will survive into the next century . |
| 9 | ‘ I doubt if either the pole or myself could take it nowadays . ’ |
| 10 | So said the Court of Appeal in Dobie v Burns International Security Services ( UK ) Ltd ( 1984 ) , a case in which the employer 's services were governed by a contract with a local authority that gave the council the right ‘ to approve or otherwise the employment or continued employment of any member of the company ’ . |
| 11 | Rolls-Royce wrote personally to all its employees yesterday claiming that either a strike or a cut to a 35-hour week would be ‘ disastrous ’ for the company . |
| 12 | The court quashed the conviction finding that only the Minister or the Committee had the power to issue such orders under the statute . |
| 13 | Rather more realistically , perhaps , the behemoth has been latterly identified as either the hippopotamus or rhinoceros . |
| 14 | This qualification can be taken as either a post-graduate or a post-experience course and is equally relevant to a young graduate starting a career in management or to an older man with some experience of management , who wishes to bring himself up to date with the latest practice . |
| 15 | Um , said Tor , but then went on to explain that only a week or two before he had been within a hundred metres or so of a school of orca . |
| 16 | Writing on behalf of News Group Newspapers Ltd , he denied that either the Sun or the News of the World ‘ has anything so grand as a ‘ marketing strategy ’ — whatever that is ’ . |
| 17 | Films were recorded while either the experimenter or an assistant was driving the Vauxhall Astra used in Study 1 . |
| 18 | The same sentence may be expressed as either a question or a statement simply by varying it 's pitch ( e.g. ‘ They 're here ! ’ and ‘ They 're here ? ’ ) . |
| 19 | The third jet is evidently created when either the quark or the antiquark radiates a gluon , which in its turn creates another shower of particles . |
| 20 | Yet any individual who tried to get away with that would be regarded as either a crook or a crank or most likely both . |
| 21 | The Sun has not been one of the newspapers which has in any way suggested that either the Queen or the Duke of Edinburgh have been other than supportive to the Princess of Wales . ’ |
| 22 | Energy is released when either a neutron or a proton is shaken loose , the reactions being written ( n referring to neutron and p proton ) : The combined mass of the final products is smaller than the combined mass of the initial nuclei . |
| 23 | A physically brave man ( he was a noted wrestler and had instructed Harry Pascoe in the art at one time ) he was doctrinally circumspect , so he conducted the marriage service in such a way that he could not be labelled as either a papist or a puritan . |