Example sentences of "[conj] either the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is [ he added , engagingly ] quite clear to me that an organisation … of this character is not something that can be handled by the ordinary … machinery or either the British Civil service or the British military machine . |
| 2 | Where either the High Court or a county court is satisfied that proceedings before it are required to be in the other court whether by reason of the 1991 Order or any other provisions made under s 1 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 , or by reason of any other enactment , then it must either transfer the proceedings to the other court or strike them out ( CCA 1984 , ss 40 and 42 ) . |
| 3 | I suppose this might be taken as perhaps a basic statement of Impressionist doctrine , and we know , incidentally , that the fictional painter in À la recherche , Elstir , who plays a very important role in the novel , perhaps more important than either the fictional writer , Bergotte , or the fictional musician , Vinteuil , that Elstir was modelled in considerable part on Monet . |
| 4 | The Conservatives won an overall majority of ninety , with the opposition split into three factions , but the Labour Party much stronger than either the Asquithian or the Lloyd George Liberals . |
| 5 | Yet the documents , which for the second time this decade give Solidarity the right to exist , go much further than either the communist party feared or Solidarity dreamed nine years ago . |
| 6 | Although all parts of Sri Lanka were affected by the depression , the areas covered by the organized networks were less integrated into the market economy , and were affected less by the coffee crash , than either the central highlands or the coastal strip . |
| 7 | Jane Austen is less descriptive than either the Gothic novelists or Scott , for although her letters are full of domestic detail and she enjoins her sister , Cassandra , to omit nothing in her account of a house — ‘ For one 's own dear self , one ascertains & remembers everything ’ — novels are not written for ‘ one 's own dear self ’ , and she was not one to inflict what she did not enjoy — ‘ your descriptions are often more minute than will be liked ’ , she warns her niece , Anna Austen , an aspiring writer . |
| 8 | The rock is excellent , climbing quality equally so , and the grade and commitment are at a more amenable level than either the Old Man of Hoy or Am Buachaille . |
| 9 | Or it may sit tight in the reasonable hope that either the economic strain proves too great and Syria 's military strength is sapped by political and economic instability , or that Syria will dissipate its strength against its eastern adversary , Iraq . |
| 10 | Where they do not exist it can be presumed that either the genuine silver-gilt coronet was used at the funeral and then put back into the strongroom after the funeral , or they have disintegrated . |
| 11 | And there is no guarantee that either the metabolic pathways or the ability to repair genetic damage is comparable in mouse and man . |
| 12 | The suggestion has therefore been made that either the right hemisphere can process concrete words and/or that such words survive , better than abstract words , transmission across the corpus callosum from the right to the left hemisphere ( Lambert and Beaumont , 1981 ) . |
| 13 | From the above observations one can deduce that either the tensile strength is zero due to pre-fracturing , or that the tectonic component of was underestimated . |
| 14 | These variable data give us a basis for examining processes of change , since they suggest initially that either the higher or lower variants are innovatory , or — more properly — that the direction of change is either raising or lowering of /Ε/.; |
| 15 | This suggested that either the NF-L gene carries a developmental specific element in the gene or that a known brain-specific element ( in the first intron ) of the Thy-1 gene has a dominant effect . |
| 16 | He thought that either the military were arresting all the leading dissidents and had cut his communication links with the outside world , or the rebels had succeeded in crippling the vidphone network . |
| 17 | … it seems clear that either the basic subscription should be increased to say £12 so as to recover the cost of four issues of the journal and leave £7 for the lifeboat service , or members should be asked to pay a subscription for the journal . |
| 18 | She also submitted that either the social worker had assessed him or ought to have assessed him . |
| 19 | This ( comment ) just goes to show that either the Chinese leadership is totally insensitive to the feelings here or they do n't care what happens anymore . ’ |
| 20 | They were valued on the basis of the quoted share price , but the shareholders argued that , since all the shares were being acquired , stock exchange prices were not a true criterion and that either the whole undertaking should be valued and the price thus determined apportioned among the shareholders , or the value should be the price which one buyer would give for the whole block , which price should then be similarly apportioned . |
| 21 | The clock goes off , the cuckoo goes cuckoo , and then a little door opens and either the good-weather weatherman comes out , all grinning and dressed for the sunshine , or else another door opens and it 's the bad-weather weatherman who comes out with an umbrella and a raincoat and a grumpy expression . |
| 22 | If a fundamental disagreement on matters of principle were to occur between the TAC and either the Financial Reporting Committee or the Auditing Committee , then the TAC has the right to challenge the draft Institute response at a meeting where the chairmen of all the Institute 's technical committees sit together with certain coopted volunteers . |
| 23 | In the final structure it is clear that protein G binds exclusively to this domain and there are no direct contacts between protein G and either the light chain or the variable region of the heavy chain ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 24 | Moreover , reform is ruled out because either the new second chamber would be less democratic than the Commons in which case it should not be able to delay legislation , or if it was just as democratic then there is no point in having two chambers , the more so since there is the potential problem of constitutional deadlock between them . |