Example sentences of "that either [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 It is not a message that either a Conservative or a Labour government would listen to .
3 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 .
4 These regulation require that either a silencer , expansion chamber or other contrivance is fined as may be reasonable to reduce the noise .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 It will rarely be the case that either an animal or a human will be provided with the opportunity to mate with an absolutely ideal member of the opposite sex .
8 In other words they deny that education is necessarily a means to an end , and argue instead that either the content or the processes of teaching and learning can have intrinsic educational value .
9 Unless the landlord is prepared to agree that the insurance should be in the joint names of the landlord and tenant , which is unlikely as the landlord would wish to keep control of the policy and proceeds , the tenant should ensure that either the landlord will act reasonably in deciding which other risks it may wish to insure against , or that the tenant will also have the right to nominate risks .
10 Although denying the allegations that either the government or the SADF were involved in the instigation or promotion of township violence , he conceded the possibility that individuals in the security forces might have acted unlawfully .
11 The effect was to create the idea that either the wall did not exist or , if it did , it was of no possible significance .
12 If the ballvalve is faulty it is likely that either the washer has worn or that the seating needs replacing ( page 46 ) .
13 What John " auntres " , by contrast , is a trick he must know from elsewhere — he decides to try out what he can have learnt only from a fabliau such as the related English , French , Dutch , Italian and German examples , banking on the sure expectation that either the miller or his wife will eventually get out of bed to allow the plot to be fulfilled .
14 The apex of the arches was only some five feet six inches above floor level , indicating that either the floor had risen during repairs or men had become taller over the centuries .
15 Goldstein ( 1963 ) has shown that either the enthalpy or the entropy may be used to derive an equation of the WLF type , and that if either excess enthalpy He or excess entropy Se were used to determine Tg then whereas if excess volume Ve determines Tg we should expect .
16 The Sun has not been one of the newspapers which has in any way suggested that either the Queen or the Duke of Edinburgh have been other than supportive to the Princess of Wales . ’
17 Although on several previous occasions Mrs Whitehouse had felt that either the response , or the public face that the Church presented was unsatisfactory — for example over the Honest to God debate — this case , with the vociferous support for Gay News , made her feel particularly vulnerable .
18 There remained doubts over implementing the accord , particularly because right-wing factions in the military and the wealthy ruling oligarchy had not been party to the talks , and because hardline elements within the FMLN might not accept the dropping of a previous key demand that either the army be disbanded or its ranks be reduced and the remainder merged into those of the guerrillas .
19 Writing on behalf of News Group Newspapers Ltd , he denied that either the Sun or the News of the World ‘ has anything so grand as a ‘ marketing strategy ’ — whatever that is ’ .
20 So , here are my tips : if you 're buying a notebook computer to use as you sole system , make sure that there 's a docking station available for it and that either the machine or the docking station accepts a real keyboard .
21 Just aft of the fire a small motorboat was still secured to its davits : it was n't difficult to guess that either the explosion or the fire had rendered it inoperable .
22 Can he therefore confirm that either the Secretary of State has breached the security rules or that the excuse of national security has been used merely to cover the fact that the Government made the decisions on political rather than on military grounds ?
23 A further possibility is that either the prestige or the style of the journals has altered over the study period , thus encouraging submission ( or acceptance ) of larger studies .
24 Unless the gutter has split or cracked , it is most likely that either the gutter ( or downpipe ) is blocked and needs clearing ( page 78 ) or that a bracket has given way and the gutter is sagging .
25 These cases are ones involving insolvency , that is total net indebtedness ; in them we have seen that either the trust was invalid because the testator 's estate was insolvent , or the trust was valid in spite of the fact that the trustee was insolvent .
26 Held , dismissing the appeal , ( 1 ) that either the mother as donee of the power of attorney had possessed sufficient general understanding and capability to have satisfied herself regarding the purport and effect of the transfer document and had failed to do so , or she had lacked ordinary competence and capacity , in which case the defendant , as donor , could not be allowed to repudiate the transfer to an innocent third party ; that , if the case was that the defendant had failed to inform the donee of the power of attorney , that lack of care also precluded him from relying on her ignorance of the power ; and that , therefore , the fact that the mother had been tricked into signing the transfer document without reading it , was not sufficient to sustain a plea of non est factum ( post , p. 679A–F ) .
27 ‘ which was not fitted ’ This point means that either the motor vehicle in question had no horn fitted at all or that the one that was fitted did not conform to the requirements of the next point .
28 Lord Lyons , the British Ambassador in Paris , told the Foreign Office on two separate occasions that ‘ I do not believe that either the Emperor or his Ministers either wish for war or expect it . ’
29 But do n't delude yourself into thinking that either the practice of fieldwork or the understanding of other people 's fieldwork is at all easy .
30 In the end , recognising that either the tension must crack or she would , she found her voice .
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