Example sentences of "[conj] either a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A common lawyer , as in the 1520s , might seem a better choice than either a noble or a cleric in an office so concerned with the law , but in the early fourteenth century common lawyers were regarded with some suspicion by the king-witness the attempts to get them barred from parliament — and by people whose complaints about the corruption of lay judges were frequent until late in the century . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is not a message that either a Conservative or a Labour government would listen to . |
| 4 | For each one that is removed , there is a 5% chance that either a Bloodletter or a Fleshhound ( equal chance for either ) suddenly appears and attacks . |
| 5 | These regulation require that either a silencer , expansion chamber or other contrivance is fined as may be reasonable to reduce the noise . |
| 6 | However , officials working on EC foreign policy co-operation discouraged any suggestion that either a statement or a special meeting to consider Panama was likely in the near future . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Data is held temporarily within the cache until either a time delay expires , the computer is idle or the cache becomes full . |
| 9 | This occurs between a firm and either a supplier or an outlet . |
| 10 | If , within 5 minutes of a want demand being refused , Joanne had not started screaming ( or any other tantrum behaviour ) , she was rewarded with praise and either a toy or a sweet from a reward ‘ menu ’ kept for that purpose . |
| 11 | These tend to cause offshore movements of surface water and either a return movement along the bottom or in certain restricted zones . |
| 12 | This is best controlled with either a tablet and either a stylus or a puck but , given a steady hand , it works pretty well with a mouse . |
| 13 | The complexity of variables thus introduced is almost literally dizzying , and either a lot of complicated sums or ( more likely ) much trial and error , rehearsing with stand-ins , must have been done . |
| 14 | Sandra Bishop , who lives in a new two-bedroomed council flat on a new estate with her husband ( a painter and decorator ) and one child aged eighteen months , lacks several aids which many women would consider essential , including a hoover and either a washing machine or access to a launderette . |
| 15 | For his tea , for the sixpence he got bread , bread , margarine and either a piece of cheese or some jam . |
| 16 | The identification and correction of coding errors may be virtually impossible unless either a cost centre is obviously incorrect or a fairly detailed manual backup , such as is outlined in ( b ) above , is utilised . |
| 17 | Each computer on the network should have its own registered copy of each piece of software unless either a site or networking licence is obtained . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Lieutenant Denholm is miscast as either a classicist or electronics officer . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The first step towards such a combination would be for universities and polytechnics to demonstrate their interest in using graded test results as either a part or the whole of entry qualifications . |
| 24 | That would seem to imply little reliability as either a mirror or informer of public opinion . |
| 25 | Yet any individual who tried to get away with that would be regarded as either a crook or a crank or most likely both . |
| 26 | Arnold Denney , of Trumpet Terrace , Cleator , who has worked on the production line for 42 years as either a machine knotter or twister and for a number of years has been a foreman . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The NCR 3450 departmental or workgroup server is available as either a uniprocessor or multiprocessor , expandable to four iAPX-86 microprocessors and the NCR 3550 is designed for use as a powerful symmetric multi-processing server for transaction processing and database applications and is expandable up to eight microprocessors . |
| 29 | The NCR 3450 departmental or workgroup server is available as either a uniprocessor or multiprocessor , expandable to four iAPX-86 microprocessors and the NCR 3550 is designed for use as a powerful symmetric multi-processing server for transaction processing and database applications and is expandable up to eight microprocessors . |
| 30 | 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 ? ’ ) . |