Example sentences of "[prep] either [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Outside London there was a strong swing to Labour regardless of either political control or the level of the community charge . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ If nuisance from smell of either animal waste processing or any other industry is to be minimised , good planning is important . ’ |
| 10 | [ 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 . ] |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They won a choice of either High Street store vouchers or a flying or gliding lesson . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Only ministers who have no understanding of either Local Government or Social Services would shrink from their own responsibilities in this way . |
| 19 | Yes , I heard two men speaking and the possibility of either another man or a woman also in the premises . |
| 20 | The histological assessments were made without knowledge of either patient group or the order of biopsies . |
| 21 | The proportion of students decreased and the proportion who cited ill health increased with age , and there were significant sex differences in the reasons given for unemployment — more women than men were not in paid employment because of either ill health or homemaking ( table III ) . |
| 22 | The methods used did not allow continuous monitoring of UOS pressure or examination of motor events associated with occurrence of either gastro-oesophageal reflux or oesophagopharyngeal reflux . |
| 23 | There are presses which are strictly private in the Carter sense , operating in anything from a back kitchen to a fully equipped shop , perhaps content simply to joy in the smell of printer 's ink and the magic of creation , without aiming to sell a single book ; publishing firms calling themselves presses who rightly pride themselves on the high quality of their output ; commercial printers who are equally jealous of the standard of their press work ; teaching establishments attached to universities , colleges and schools for experimental and training purposes ; official presses , controlled by governmental or other agencies ; fugitive and clandestine presses , often short-lived and hazardously operated , because of an adverse political or religious climate , or because their owners are dodging copyright laws ; and there is a hotch-potch of firms who pretentiously arrogate to themselves the word ‘ press ’ , to which they have little or no right in terms of either fine printing or independence . |
| 24 | If the balance is upset , the work inevitably degenerates into either aesthetic mystification or ideological propaganda . |
| 25 | If your army includes six to ten Trolls these may be organised into either one unit or into two as near as possible equally sized units . |
| 26 | If your army includes six to ten Snotling bases these may be organised into either one unit or into two as near as possible equally sized units . |
| 27 | Similarly , a very restricted comparison — perhaps of only two or three cases — permits a more intensive analysis than may be possible with multi-country studies and if the cases are dealt with in a consistent and systematic way minimises ‘ the danger of lapsing into either vacuous description or superficial comparison ’ ( Shalev , 1980a , p. 40 ) . |
| 28 | Originally the parable was a story which warned against the coming catastrophe of the end , when a person may be faced with either personal death or the end of the world . |
| 29 | Or use a section of garden hose slit lengthwise and secured with either strong wire or Jubilee clips to make a temporary repair . |
| 30 | Polish nationalism , as Rosa Luxemburg pointed out to Lenin on several occasions , was unusual in that it was not primarily a bourgeois phenomenon , but rather a substitute for ideology taken over from the szlachta by the Polish peasantry as they and the lower ranks of the gentry coalesced to form an industrial working class and a commercial bourgeoisie.14 An important component of Polish political life , and part of the damage wrought by partition , was the continuing failure to produce an ideology that went beyond the purely national to link the aspiration to exist as an independent nation with either capitalist organisation or a socialist vision of society . |