Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lieutenant Denholm is miscast as either a classicist or electronics officer . |
| 2 | It seemed that wherever a wall or something similar could be built , one had appeared . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | More than half of them have now perished and only a score or more will survive into the next century . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? ’ ) . |
| 9 | Yet any individual who tried to get away with that would be regarded as either a crook or a crank or most likely both . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |