Example sentences of "do either " in BNC.

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31 No doubt there are modern adepts who might scoff at our amateur efforts , but that 's just what we were , amateurs struggling in a land for the E6 leader or the A3 and A4 aider , without being able to do either .
32 I could n't make up my own mind whether to get him to lengthen or shorten and in consequence I did n't make his mind up to do either and we floundered over it untidily , his hooves rapping the wooden frames , my weight too far forward … a mess .
33 Too weak to do either , she had gone on the streets .
34 It did n't pick up specific vendors ' implementations of technologies the way COSE purports to do either .
35 In this case the Attorney-General refused to do either .
36 But then being a comedian was plainly not a useful thing to do either .
37 You have to do either your own or somebody else 's er bit of the story .
38 It usually takes you longer to decide whether to do either A or B than just how to do A. All I have to think of is how to do A.
39 Set up in I 978 with the twin missions of keeping Israeli troops out of southern Lebanon and helping the Lebanese government to control the Palestinians there , it was never given the strength to do either .
40 The decision to fight or pay can not therefore have been easy , not least because the Mercians and Northumbrians , who apparently saw considerably less of the enemy than the south and east , may often have been disinclined to do either .
41 Where there is insufficient time to do either a local authority may rely on its power under s3(5) of the Act to " do what is reasonable in all the circumstances of the case for the purpose of safeguarding or promoting the child 's welfare " .
42 You say hello to her , you assume she has been reading your mail or listening in to your private telephone calls ( actually I never did either ) , and you tell her when you do not wish to be disturbed .
43 And I never did either .
44 Did either or you know about this !
45 Did either Norman or Vera know Dominic ? ,
46 I 'm not sure they did either .
47 Comparative sensitivity of different imaging techniques in detecting gall stone recurrence — Ultrasound detected gall stone recurrence earlier and more frequently than did either the trial criteria or oral cholecystectography alone ( Fig 3 ) .
48 A and then what did either you or P C do ?
49 Did either you or him shout anything ?
50 Joint students do either a dissertation or a practical project .
51 If they do either , the whole corridor animates and attacks them as ‘ Part-Gargoyles ’ ( see Profiles ) .
52 If I am warned that my weight makes it highly likely that I will suffer health problems in hot climates , the probability of my being ill is reduced if I do either one of two things — lose weight and/or avoid the tropics , Thus , I have some choice about my life .
53 That nobody else , including the West Germans , does either , is little consolation .
54 Neither metaphysics nor ethics is the home of religion , nor does either hold the key to its real nature .
55 In none of these cases does either the first or the second element qualify as a semantic constituent :
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