Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [adv] the [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 | Nor do I think that either the father or the court were exercising any rights of custody at the time of the removal . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I doubt if either the pole or myself could take it nowadays . ’ |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | The court quashed the conviction finding that only the Minister or the Committee had the power to issue such orders under the statute . |
| 8 | Rather more realistically , perhaps , the behemoth has been latterly identified as either the hippopotamus or rhinoceros . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Films were recorded while either the experimenter or an assistant was driving the Vauxhall Astra used in Study 1 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |