Example sentences of "either [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly I expect that either I shall find Bill at home drunk or I shall find him at home sober . |
| 2 | At this point in the proceedings I was offered a choice ; either I would have to undergo a major operation , knowing that the surgeon did not know what was wrong , or I could go into a residential physiotherapy hospital , Farnhan Park , one of the largest of its kind in England . |
| 3 | And I thought well she 's got two chances that way , either I could win , or she could win , or neither of us 'll win . |
| 4 | I never either I 'd have said too . |
| 5 | If you do not have either you may find it helpful to use the following guidelines . |
| 6 | Any company that 's trying to sell computers is only too pleased to give demonstrations , and either you would go to their showroom , where they 've got it all set up , erm or they would bring the , the equipment in to you . |
| 7 | Either you must go to school or stay indoors here . ’ |
| 8 | Either you should ask your spouse to enter into the covenant or you could enter into a Joint Deed of Covenant signed by both you and your spouse . |
| 9 | there are two , there are two ways you could look at it , either , either you could say , you could say yes or , in , in one sentence if you have any barrs on membership at all you are preventing competition , but that would be er a highly unreal statement to make , erm , and what you 're , what you 're saying is that if you look at it that way , the prevention restriction or distortion of competition must be some er malign or bad prevention restriction or distortion and er there 's nothing bad about having objective criteria which would indeed erm prevent erm these people from competing cos they ca n't get into this , into the sugar market , er it will prevent them from competing in the sugar market , but that 's not the sort of prevention article eighty five is talking about . |
| 10 | Either you can sort through your collection looking for all the smallest items , or you can cheat and use parts of larger pieces of pressed flowers or foliage . |
| 11 | Either she could say that Derek was the biggest fool the world had ever seen — in which case she would stand , self-confessed , as an even bigger fool for having married him in the first place . |
| 12 | Either she could hear jungle drums or the beating of her own heart . |
| 13 | Either she must close her eyes against this or she must enter . |
| 14 | So either we shall have to disallow such a possibility and decree that nothing qualifies as a genuine proposition unless its truth-value is fixed for all time , i.e. that all propositions are what is sometimes called " eternal " propositions , or we shall have to accept that truth-value is not an integral part of the objective propositional content . |
| 15 | Either we 'll have to take a very heavy discount on it , or we 'll get our accounts qualified . |
| 16 | Either we may see them as qualifying the properties inherent in the nouns , or we may take the view that lawfulness and distance serve to mark out certain generally recognized subcategories of heirs and cousins ( whereas one can scarcely argue for any generally accepted subcategories of strangers and kids marked out by totality and mereness ) , so that they can be treated as ordinary ascriptive adjectives . |
| 17 | It depends , it depends what you 're doing with it , see we either we 'd put mums and tots which is something , erm |
| 18 | Either we can think of the UK and every other economy as a coherent whole with a dynamic of its own or we can think of it as subordinate to the world economy such that its parts are the cogs of an international economy and have no coherence on a national basis . |
| 19 | Either we can influence and help that to be to be good or or you know if that 's a failure then see whether they can help us to produce one for the town . |
| 20 | A speaker at the International Congress pointed out that there are two approaches to handicap — either we can adapt the environment ( e.g. by providing wheelchairs , ramps , etc ) or we can make the individual do the adapting . |
| 21 | Either we can know the position exactly , in which case we sacrifice all specification of momentum , or we make the converse choice . |
| 22 | I said I would make them a hundred butterfly cakes , and they either they 'll eat them or they 'll sell them , and I 'll hav I 'll try and have them ready for when rings up at half past one and if they sell them and she brings me any I would n't mind knocking a few more up for tomorrow , but I 'm not gon na give them all |
| 23 | Some mothers will be too disorganized to do this : either they may demonstrate a lack of concern about the problem or the stresses at home may be too great for it to be filled in reliably . |
| 24 | Either they would send a rescue party , or they would adhere to quarantine regulations and he would be marooned on Tarvaras . |
| 25 | ‘ At first I was upset by this development , ’ said one official , ‘ but then I realised that with so many places selling the same things either they would go bust or they would have to channel their efforts into other , more necessary things . ’ |
| 26 | Either they must draw back from the spotlight and forfeit their privileges or pick their partners based on purely practical criteria . |
| 27 | Either they can maintain their expectations and seek new ways of meeting them . |
| 28 | I think our view is that if that provision was to be any greater , then we would have significant difficulty in accommodating that provision within our part of Greater York , primarily for for greenbelt considerations , not reasons , erm any additional provision would require a rolling back of the greenbelt , er significant provision would have two implications , erm either it would mean peripheral expansion er of York into the greenbelt around York and into our district , we feel that would adversely affect the special character of York , lead to outward sprawl of the York urban area , encroachment into open countryside , and coalescence of the urban area with the villages in our district , er and we we would n't want to support that . |
| 29 | Either it would have to have made six separate trips , which was mad , or else there would have to have been six jackdaws . |
| 30 | Either it might see what could be done within the area which Kant had left to it ; or it might ask whether there might not after all be rather more to be said about the way in which genuine knowledge of God is made possible . |