Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] either a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asthma was defined as discrete episodes of wheezing and either a previous diagnosis of asthma or documented reversible airway obstruction as determined by a 20% improvement in forced expiratory volume in one second ( FEV 1 ) after bronchodilator administration or a 20% decrease in FEV 1 after methacholine bronchoprovocation , performed in accordance with the American Thoracic Society guidelines . |
| 2 | ‘ Lieutenant Denholm is miscast as either a classicist or electronics officer . |
| 3 | It supports conventional , XMS and EMS memory for its buffers and can be installed as either a device driver or TSR program . |
| 4 | Voluntary work was no longer seen as either a stepping stone to bigger and better things or as a part of a women ‘ s mission , but rather as the exclusive province of married women . |
| 5 | On lifting financial sanctions , including allowing access to IMF and World Bank assistance , the communiqué said that such sanctions should remain until either a new democratic constitution had been agreed or until there was agreement to lift them " at South Africa 's all-party conference or by an interim government " . |
| 6 | The Jetwave Series 2 combination oven has a 700-watt microwave , a 2,400-watt infra-red grill , and can be used as either a forced air or natural convection oven . |
| 7 | They could be used as either a deck , or through span structure , and the length of spans varied on the light truss type from 45ft to 85ft , and on the standard type , 90ft to 1 50ft . |
| 8 | This can perhaps be interpreted as either a sign of policy changes feeding through into the yield curve or as a change in exchange rate expectations . |
| 9 | The negotiation of reputation ; how not to be defined as either a ‘ slag ’ or a ‘ drag ’ by men ; the juggling of male expectation with the pursuance of a career : these are all questions that the romantic novel consistently deals with in its narratives . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Well the fear of boring you because I 've said it before , I think that either a Trustee made up of an equal balance of members from the various interested groups which is very difficult to achieve in practice and additionally independent trustees certainly in our case , we believe would have stopped it happening because the movements in the direction it went was clear now that we have the information in front of us to the Trustees , it was quite clear what was gon na happen and nothing was done about it . |
| 12 | The hypothesis raises , however , one difficulty : if there was a shift towards the equator in both hemispheres , it would seem that either a climatic belt was squeezed out or one or more narrowed in latitudinal extent . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | These regulation require that either a silencer , expansion chamber or other contrivance is fined as may be reasonable to reduce the noise . |
| 15 | 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 ? ’ ) . |
| 16 | The D12 can be obtained as either a 300w or a 600w system . |
| 17 | Yet any individual who tried to get away with that would be regarded as either a crook or a crank or most likely both . |
| 18 | It also dates 1st century and could have been intended as either a key or a knife handle ( although the fact that it has a circular socket favours its use as a key handle ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |