Example sentences of "either [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other end emerge still useful uranium , for potential reuse in reactors , plutonium , which , according to its quality , can be used for either bombs or as fuel in a fast breeder reactor ( see Chapter Three ) ; and a cocktail of liquid waste products . |
| 2 | The amateurs were unable to distinguish one shaft from another for either woods or irons . |
| 3 | It has been pointed out by Gospel that ‘ managers ’ themselves can not be defined simply as being either employers or employees , since for the majority of them their role is ( simultaneously ) of a dual nature : |
| 4 | Marital status has a positive effect , agreeing with the interpretations that either employers favour men who are married and/or that married men search harder . |
| 5 | The Commission 's original proposal on maternity leave would have added £0.5 billion to the costs or either employers or taxpayers in this country . |
| 6 | Either copies of the forms , or appropriate information drawn from them , will have to be submitted to the Secretary of State . |
| 7 | Another way of putting this is to say that human linguistic thought is such that all particular thoughts ( whether expressed overtly or not ) can be constructed only in terms of ideas classified as either entities or properties , and put together by means of some combination of the four fundamental relations already alluded to . |
| 8 | Either attempts can be made to ensure that corporate managers behave as profit-maximizers by making them responsive once again to the market ; or , alternatively , new life can be breathed into the legal model of the company so that managers are once again forced to act in the interests of the shareholders . |
| 9 | When repetitive steps are present in either activities or resources a copy command performs these with minimum effort . |
| 10 | If the overcrowding which Howard so decried is not to become worse , let alone be diminished , either courts must change their sentencing practices or more prisons must be built ( Howard 1792 : 170 , 221 , 224–5 ) . |
| 11 | At one stage in the lineage , for example , there is a cell which can produce either granulocytes or macrophages , and the decision to follow a macrophage or granulocyte pathway can be controlled by the concentration of a protein factor which , if the concentration is high enough , will direct differentiation exclusively along the macrophage pathway . |
| 12 | Traditionally the visionaries of the Church have been either opponents of Christ , like St Paul or St Eustace , who were converted by their visions , or men and women already leading lives of heroic sanctity , like St Teresa or St Francis . |
| 13 | Most have degrees in art and are either artists or historians . |
| 14 | At the time er when I was a firearms instructor er that was the job that I did every day I went to work either firearms training or firearms operations . |
| 15 | Unfortunately there is confusion in the literature and the required procedures may be referred to as either skills analysis or task analysis ( Seymour 1968 , Singer and Ramsden 1969 , Miller 1962 ) . |
| 16 | Out of sixteen instances , four were shopkeepers , one a hotel proprietor , one in insurance , and four were farmers ; and nearly all provided either houses — in one case paying for the maids , coal , and gas as well — or land . |
| 17 | Either taxes will have to increase to cover the social and medical needs of the retired and elderly , or their standard of living will diminish sharply . |
| 18 | Almost all coroners are either solicitors ( a few are barristers ) or doctors and a very small number have both legal and medical training and qualifications . |
| 19 | There are no special requirements in relation to the formation of a multi-national partnership — save that all the partners must be either solicitors or RFLs and there must be at least one of each to make it an MNP . |
| 20 | Defects in β2 may be either mutations , which affect the structure of the protein , or greatly reduced expression or absence of mRNA . |
| 21 | Most of these were either widows or deserted wives , or as the survey put it " from drinking families " . |
| 22 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that many of those who live on their income from savings are either widows or those who retired early , very often to look after an elderly dependant ? |
| 23 | So the tremendous burst of controversy in the third week of television 's campaign coverage failed to stimulate either grass-roots discussion or public interest . |
| 24 | This is in spite of the emerging medical consensus that people who drink up to four drinks or so a day live longer and are less likely to suffer from heart disease than either abstainers or heavy drinkers . |
| 25 | All of them were either accounts of measures taken by the pope , or — in the letters to the king of Jerusalem and the count of Flanders — recommendations of obedience to the papal policy . |
| 26 | The other favoured location was in the land immediately behind the frontage properties , served by either side-lanes or streets ; examples are known at Chelmsford , Godmanchester and Wanborough . |
| 27 | But that does not mean that either institutions of higher education or their staff are obliged to conduct research . |
| 28 | This , combined with external concept/keyword access — through either maps or the Housing Unit datafile — will help pupils identify the true relationships between topics , which may not be so clear using a program such as EDFAX . |
| 29 | Although the army , still sceptical of the new weapon and uncooperative , were unable to provide him with either maps or even straw for the pilots ' bunks , within a week he had installed on the Verdun front six out of France 's total of fifteen fighter squadrons , and a further eight reconnaissance squadrons ; equalling 120 machines . |
| 30 | The accommodation in La Penita consists of apartments which sleep 2–3 people , and are fully equipped with kitchenette , private facilities and either balconies or terrace . |