Example sentences of "either [adj] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , in many cases the previous foreign owners of those companies which passed into local ownership , either private or state , were invited to continue as managers for which they received a management fee . |
| 2 | All students take French as the major language and choose either Spanish or German as the minor language . |
| 3 | can be retained with either self-tapping or machine set screws . |
| 4 | Well it 's either that or TV and that is a lot of damp nonsense as per usual . |
| 5 | Well it was either that or stuff for the kids . |
| 6 | Either that or sculpture . |
| 7 | Many research projects concentrate on either siliciclastic or carbonate sediments ; few investigate combined carbonate-siliciclastic systems and fewer yet reference volcanogenic sediments , mudrocks or evaporites . |
| 8 | One was an elderly , rather exhausted man who was unable to produce either assistant or wife and had to borrow a lady from his neighbour for the purpose . |
| 9 | I found it preoccupied by a little company of artists , either professional or amateur , who made use of the rainy day by camping in the coach-house to sketch from its shelter a fine group of trees , with some good foreground rock and bracken , all within a stone-throw of the cottage . |
| 10 | On the other hand , many millions of people have left and are leaving villages , kin and family without becoming either emotional or nationalist . |
| 11 | During their fertile years they are either pregnant or breastfeeding . |
| 12 | The last class of small town to be considered in this chapter covers those which developed primarily around either extractive or manufacturing industries . |
| 13 | Scotland , Belgium , Luxembourg , Bulgaria , Spain , Malta , Hungary , Northern Ireland , Turkey , England , Poland , Albania and Latvia have all tried in either European or World Cup qualifiers and all have failed . |
| 14 | Breeds by either fresh or salt water on tundra and Arctic coasts , also inland in Scandinavia on mountains ; in winter on coastal waters , scarce inland . |
| 15 | Though the novel is not the sole domain of either narrative or fiction , in contemporary Western culture it exemplifies both . |
| 16 | He did n't smile in case he might seem either flippant or impertinent . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , time was when mines were either magnetic or acoustic . |
| 18 | and in different shapes too , check your truck for the correct shape you need , either top or bottom . |
| 19 | They can be either one-hole or two-hole depending on the fitting details for your sink . |
| 20 | Third , there will be a single unified social care budget which will cover all forms of care , either residential or domiciliary , purchased by local authorities . |
| 21 | These trains were all composed of covered wagons of either French or Italian make , used on the Continental Ferry Service , and left in this country . |
| 22 | Of the remainder , the music for viols and solo keyboard , the songs and domestic devotional consorts , and the large amount of music to religious or moralizing texts in either English or Latin , was all alike pre-eminently private chamber music . |
| 23 | This was to last two years and to be focused on public law and , once more , the study and analysis of diplomatic documents : the pupils were also to have a knowledge of either English or German . |
| 24 | Russell said that the police once used either steam-distillation or vacuum extraction to find traces of the common accelerants such as petrol , paraffin , paint thinners and white spirit , that spread fires . |
| 25 | Hagstom suggests that many curves labelled as ‘ logistic ’ may in fact be either linear or exponential . |
| 26 | Kampmann makes a range of this kind of heater in different sizes , colours and finishes and with either linear or roll-up grilles . |
| 27 | Right all the machines they 've got erm are either German or Italian , say we got dump trucks erm we |
| 28 | It is to be hoped that as the patient begins to feel better , there will be less need for either smoking or alcohol . |
| 29 | How far might either constituent or MP have to travel in order to make such a consultation possible ? |
| 30 | The intensity of the colour of either reactant or product can be followed during the reaction using a photoelectric colorimeter . |