Example sentences of "[prep] either [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Event risk protection has generally taken the form of either protective covenants or a put-at-par option , which is exercisable if specific designated events occur that lead to a deterioration of credit quality rating to non-investment grade level .
2 Devoid of either anxious friends , or triumphant adversaries .
3 In the absence of either methanogenic bacteria or sulphate reducing bacteria in the colon , H 2 accumulates in excessive quantities and this may be an important factor in pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis .
4 Did you realise that even now there are no legal standards for the manufacture of either sanitary towels or tampons ?
5 ‘ Retention of a certification facility at Barnard Castle can not be justified in terms of either efficient administration or public expenditure , ’ he said in a letter to Mr Derek Foster , MP for Bishop Auckland .
6 But it should be kept in mind that the home visit , for reasons of either vocational guidance or after-care , was intended to do more than simply attend to the school-leaver , who was urged to ‘ put your shoulder to the wheel ’ in order ‘ to reduce to a minimum the number of inefficient citizens ’ .
7 However , and this could easily be the case in the larger surveying organisation , it may not be in the interests of either effective management or particular individuals to maintain this full-scale participation of all members .
8 These cells were transfected by the CaPO 4 -DNA precipitate method [ 16 ] with 10 µg test gene plasmid , 1 µg reference gene plasmid and the indicated amount of either trans-activator plasmid or herring sperm DNA overnight .
9 In one of their experiments ( the results of which are presented in Fig. 3.14 ) rats were given a serial conditioning procedure in which presentations of a light were followed , after an interval of either 10 s or 30 s , by food .
10 After complete gall stone dissolution , most ( n=77 ) of the patients had taken no post-dissolution treatment but 16 had been given maintenance treatment with half the full dissolution doses of either chenodeyxholic acid or ursodeoxycholic acid .
11 Outside London there was a strong swing to Labour regardless of either political control or the level of the community charge .
12 Suites of either two twins sharing a bathroom or one twin , one single sharing a bathroom are available .
13 For , plainly , such a procedure and the acknowledgement of either authoritative text or persons involve the existence of rules of a type different from the rules of obligation or duty which ex hypothesi are all that the group has .
14 The classification will state that the hardware is unaffected by fields of either 1 volt/metre , 3 v/m , 10 v/m or an unspecified strength of field .
15 Once you have the technique in hand you can use 24 stitch repeats by punching them into 12 stitch repeat cards , provided that they are a repeat of either four stitches , six stitches or 12 stitches .
16 Corporal punishment was used sparingly but consisted of either four strokes or six across the behind with a whippy cane .
17 ‘ If nuisance from smell of either animal waste processing or any other industry is to be minimised , good planning is important . ’
18 [ Though well received by the public schools , the scheme never came into effect , mainly because of the unwillingness of either central government or LEAs to take responsibility for payment of the grants . ]
19 It is in this context that we find the constant reference or allusion to ‘ sensuality ’ or the ‘ sensour ’ : an agenda for the analysis of either sculptural production or viewer-response , and in particular the question of how this description of works produced across distinct periods may be attempted .
20 In some ways that was the classic sound that I had with Whitesnake , but that sound was n't usable in later , more AOR versions of either that band or even other things that I 've done ; all you can say is that it was right for that particular music .
21 The only change Pache indicated in Lorentz 's strategy was an allusion to studying an ‘ expanded ’ alliance with existing shareholder NEC Corp. to share the costs of either personal computer development or manufacture .
22 They were given a daily dose of either 100 mg ( group A , n=10 , mean age 4 ( 2 ) years ) or 500 mg of gliadin ( group B , mean age 5 ( 3 ) years ) .
23 Political paralysis has prevented the evolution of either clear tactics or a coherent strategy .
24 This difference could not be explained by the distribution of either histological types or admission types between the erm sites that had less than one hundred cases and those that had more than one hundred cases .
25 Usually a limited number of offers can be rejected but there is no guarantee that a subsequent offer will be an improvement , so in many rural districts applicants may have to make the best of either inappropriate housing or housing not ideally located with regard to their workplaces or existing patterns of use of facilities .
26 They won a choice of either High Street store vouchers or a flying or gliding lesson .
27 During 1963–83 and 1984–90 the incidence of malignant disease , particularly lymphoid leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphomas , in young people aged 0–24 in Seascale was higher than would be expected on the basis of either national rates or those for the surrounding areas .
28 If , as seems likely , the trend continues for the curricular domination of individual subjects to be supplemented or indeed replaced by a more fluid organization of learning in terms of either modular units or work-related competencies , this is also likely to strengthen the support for records of achievement with or without a component of external examination .
29 Docherty was on the verge of signing a new contract with United who had just won the FA Cup and in an act of either remarkable honesty or unmitigated stupidity , he decided to inform the board that he was romantically involved with the physiotherapist 's wife .
30 With the exception of an occasional haemorrhoid , findings were negative for all types of colorectal pathology , and none of the control patients or their families had histories of either colorectal malignancy or inflammatory bowel disease .
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