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

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1 Modernity , then , is incurably materialistic but it can look towards either collectivism or individualism .
2 Since there was no meat left now , the ration from now on until the supplies were exhausted would consist of one handful of either rice or dal and one of flour per person , the men being given a more generous helping than the women and children .
3 • have a firm diagnosis of either tenosynovitis or writer 's cramp .
4 A ‘ renewable energy source ’ is one which does not depend on finite reserves of either fossil or nuclear fuels .
5 The consequences for the animal are ultimately identical , but for the humans their actions are couched in a class-ridden dressing of either romanticism or oafish brutality .
6 Perhaps the strangest ‘ Christmas ’ internee festival of either country or war took place fifty years ago today .
7 The latter agents may not cause abnormalities of either carbohydrate or lipid metabolism ( Donnelly & Harrower , 1980 ; Faergeman et al , 1984 ; Rodjmark & Andersson , 1984 ) , despite several case reports ( Charles et al , 1981 ; Bhatnagar et al , 1984 ) , and they may have fewer side-effects than cardioselective β-blocking drugs .
8 What is more worthy of comment is the high number of tonsillectomies for this cause , given the evidence that tonsillectomy does not enhance the effectiveness of either adenoidectomy or insertion of grommets in improving hearing .
9 Eventually , after appealing her case for years in the UK , she took it to the European Court which agreed that there must be equal opportunities to claim social security benefits , and that discrimination on the grounds of either sex or marital status must end .
10 However , I am not personally aware of any research revealing that adult British people of either sex or any size can live on 1,000 calories daily without shedding weight , whether they are aiming to do so or not .
11 ( see Overprinting ) printing over a previously printed area of either text or graphics .
12 The study by Williams et al reported no metabolism of either butyrate or glutamine by biopsy specimens taken from two UC patients , although there was no report on tissue viability .
13 This will avoid the inclination of either management or labour to wrongly allocate the time spent on work attracting bonus to other non-bonus operations .
14 Really Dersingham has his name and not very much else in the way of either sense or property . ’
15 Gel retardation was done in F9 EC whole cell extracts ( in which DRTF1/E2F resolves as complexes a , b and c ) with an E2F binding site ( E2A promoter sequences -71 to -50 ) in the presence of either preimmune or immune anti-peptide A serum with the addition of either unrelated peptide 1 ( tracks 3 and 7 ) or peptide A ( tracks 4 and 8 ) ; 3 and 4 represent two different rabbit antisera. c , DP-1 is in the affinity-pure DRTF1/E2F DNA-binding complex .
16 Gel retardation was done in F9 EC whole cell extracts with either a class 1 ( tracks 1–4 ) or class 2 ( tracks 5–8 ) binding site in the presence of either preimmune or immune anti-peptide A ( antiserum 4 ) , together with either unrelated peptide 1 ( tracks 3 and 7 ) or peptide A ( tracks 4 and 8 ) .
17 Another potentially significant resource is local authority training departments , as providers of either expertise or actual courses .
18 A more serious problem arises where the applicant does not rate highly in terms of either expertise or ability , that is where the content of the degree is irrelevant , and the quality of it uninspiring .
19 For larger areas and for more distant detached portions of parishes , a likely explanation is distant resources of either woodland or seasonal pasture shared with other villages .
20 Control , in the form of either transformation or refusal to translate , is a minority practice even at this ‘ bottom ’ end of the occupation .
21 The hon. Member for Foyle ( Mr. Hume ) has , much more eloquently than I could , told us of the damage that it does and the effect that it has on the young people of Northern Ireland because it gives them a future of either migration or unemployment .
22 Distinction does not provide a theory of either consumption or material culture as the form of modern culture .
23 The age and history , ownership or use of either land or buildings , the date of any alterations and , importantly , the person or company by whom it was designed , built or altered , and the date are also covered by the Act .
24 With this in mind there is distinct reluctance about the direction of Working Paper 7 since it effectively takes no cognisance of either tradition or authority .
25 Everything presented to the court is designed to support their basic argument of either guilt or innocence .
26 The other favours reflux of either bile or duodenal content as the important carcinogenic factor .
27 We can not explain our hostility to internal compromise by appeal to principles of either fairness or justice as we have defined those virtues .
28 In my own view there is no significant discontinuity in terms of either structure or form between " modern " societies and " primitive " societies .
29 The cells are supported in a rotor of either titanium or aluminium alloy , which is attached to the drive motor by a fine steel wire , thereby allowing limited self-balancing to take place .
30 A ‘ grey goose ’ ( p. 46 ) , a rare visitor from Arctic North America , in two colour forms : Snow Goose , all white with black wing-tips ; and Blue Goose , with bluish grey-brown back and wings , white head , neck and tail coverts , and underparts of either colour or a mixture .
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