Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adv] [noun] or [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If this card had been with either North or South the slam would have been a 75-per-cent chance .
2 Every time this matter 's been before either committee or council there has been a majority in favour of the merger principles .
3 ‘ It is clear that when the section 8(6) procedure comes into operation it is for the police officer to make the decision whether the sample to be provided shall be a sample of blood or urine , but the police officer must convey to the defendant that the sample to be required may be of either blood or urine and must give the defendant an opportunity to consider which sample he would prefer to give if the choice were his and any reasons he has for that preference .
4 Effects of incompatibility between product and this primary container , which may be on either product or package or both , e.g. , corrosion of metal tubes ; stress-cracking of plastic tubes ; absorption of constituents of the product such as preservatives by the container ; leaching of constituents of the container by the product .
5 Perhaps it is merely to accommodate the moths , but what the benefits are to either sloth or moth in their relationship is still not understood .
6 However , the Thatcher government 's antipathy towards local government is less clearly seen in the personal social services than it is in either education or housing .
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