Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] or [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inch loss from others varied according to their size but those with a 34–36 inch bust measurement either lost nothing at all or only an inch or an inch and a half . |
| 2 | Thus we have seen that British capitalism in the 1860s abandoned non-economic compulsion of labour ( such as the Master and Servant Acts which punished breaches of contract by workers with jail ) , long-term hiring contracts ( such as the ‘ annual bond ’ of the northern coalminers ) , and truck payments , while the average length of hiring was shortened , the average period of payment gradually reduced to a week , or even a day or an hour , thus making the market bargain more sensitive and flexible . |
| 3 | My father 's a refuse collector — or maybe an accountant or a barrister and I 'm the rebel of the family . |
| 4 | The court quashed the conviction finding that only the Minister or the Committee had the power to issue such orders under the statute . |
| 5 | More than just a pastime or a pursuit of Olympic excellence performed by an elite few , the worthy aim of teaching every child to swim 25 metres by the age of 11 will soon be a part of the national curriculum . |
| 6 | A common lawyer , as in the 1520s , might seem a better choice than either a noble or a cleric in an office so concerned with the law , but in the early fourteenth century common lawyers were regarded with some suspicion by the king-witness the attempts to get them barred from parliament — and by people whose complaints about the corruption of lay judges were frequent until late in the century . |
| 7 | In addition , the ITVA has some criteria of its own , being stricter than either the Act or the Code in its judgement of the admissibility of some statements of apparent fact or of ‘ knocking ’ copy . |
| 8 | Finally , although both tRNA species competed with the ds LTR rather efficiently ( lanes 11–14 ) , NCp7 bound the tRNAs less strongly than either the RNA or the DNA species . |
| 9 | Their smaller size — an adult male weighs around 150 lb ( 70 kg ) and a female perhaps 30 lb ( 14 kg ) less — makes them more adaptable than either the lion or the tiger , as does their athleticism . |
| 10 | When it comes to the separation of powers and the system of checks and balances that the constitution asserted , it is also clear that the bureaucracy was given a much more equal share than either the Diet or the Judiciary . |
| 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 | It is not a message that either a Conservative or a Labour government would listen to . |
| 13 | For each one that is removed , there is a 5% chance that either a Bloodletter or a Fleshhound ( equal chance for either ) suddenly appears and attacks . |
| 14 | However , officials working on EC foreign policy co-operation discouraged any suggestion that either a statement or a special meeting to consider Panama was likely in the near future . |
| 15 | It will rarely be the case that either an animal or a human will be provided with the opportunity to mate with an absolutely ideal member of the opposite sex . |
| 16 | In other words they deny that education is necessarily a means to an end , and argue instead that either the content or the processes of teaching and learning can have intrinsic educational value . |
| 17 | Although denying the allegations that either the government or the SADF were involved in the instigation or promotion of township violence , he conceded the possibility that individuals in the security forces might have acted unlawfully . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | So , here are my tips : if you 're buying a notebook computer to use as you sole system , make sure that there 's a docking station available for it and that either the machine or the docking station accepts a real keyboard . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A further possibility is that either the prestige or the style of the journals has altered over the study period , thus encouraging submission ( or acceptance ) of larger studies . |
| 24 | But there are no signs that either the phrase or the policy which it expressed ever became part of his own thinking either about the Church as a whole or about his own duties as archbishop . |
| 25 | Nor do I think that either the father or the court were exercising any rights of custody at the time of the removal . |
| 26 | Theodora suspected that this was not an exercise that either the Bishop or the Archdeacon had had to perform before . |
| 27 | It was a zip-up pocket intended for golf balls and perhaps a pipe or a pair of gloves . |
| 28 | to your sandwiches and perhaps an apple or an orange instead |
| 29 | The children were the first to greet me , their brown eyes looking up , asking silently and then audibly for presents , knowing that my cases must hold something for each of them , if only a ribbon or a sweet . |
| 30 | Yet in our bones we all know that there is such a thing as national character , even if only a fool or a racist would attempt to define its precise ingredients . |