Example sentences of "[adj] or [art] other [prep] " in BNC.

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1 However , there is evidence that Dune may be cannibalising Poison , which may require one or the other to be repositioned .
2 Narrowing the field to either one or the other of these , has sometimes trapped the theoreticians into claiming that they have identified a defining characteristic of their field .
3 In the past , as we have seen in earlier chapters , teachers have either confined themselves almost entirely to one or the other of the modes ( using terms like ‘ creative drama ’ in opposition to ‘ theatre ’ ) or they have seen them as separate stages in the child 's education .
4 But all of them endorse one or the other of the principles of political neutrality mentioned above and seek to implement it by some variant of the following principles of restraint which limit the political relevance of ideals of the good .
5 A learned paper from Paris has confirmed this opinion by declaring , after an exhaustive description of my son 's genius , that there was no doubt that this child would at the age of twelve write an opera for one or the other of the Italian theatres ; but everybody thought that a German should reserve such glory for his own country alone .
6 Incidentally , the working pattern of these bodyguards , so it transpired over the following days , entailed one or the other of them going up to sleep at unusual hours so as to ensure at least one was on duty throughout the night .
7 Through the centuries of developing life , the need to choose one or the other of the two routes indicated in the Choices has faced all human races .
8 This is now happening in Scotland and the kingdom is beginning to veer to one or the other of the two powerful families with such claims to the throne .
9 So at the SLP 's next annual conference I put forward a resolution that talks be opened with them with a view to supporting each other in seats where one or the other of us stood a chance of winning ; and to this end arranged a meeting between Jo Grimond and the SNP leader , Billy Wolfe .
10 But we do not have to opt exclusively for one or the other of these forms .
11 At those two points and most of the states of our day , old and new , are at one or the other of the two theory must be called in to buttress and justify obedience .
12 This proposal was further supported by a number of investigations in which in vitro DNA/protein crosslinking could be demonstrated after one or the other of the nucleoside analogues mentioned above was incorporated into DNA , either in vivo ( 10 , 11 ) or by DNA polymerase reaction in vitro ( 12 ) .
13 ‘ It was one or the other of your bright boy-friends who sent me this , was it ? ’ he demanded , tossing the paper down in front of her .
14 One or the other of us should leave Rose Cottage … go right away from here until this … this time muddle has corrected itself .
15 However , in each particular phase of an enquiry , the primary concern would be one or the other of these two types of query .
16 I will examine the strategies used in HARPY , HWIM and two more recent systems , SPHINX and RM1 , and discuss how each system has adapted one or the other of the basic admissible algorithms in order to reduce the potential combinatorial explosion of word string hypotheses .
17 All of the uses of the to infinitive with full verbs in the corpus fall into one or the other of these two categories .
18 It therefore becomes imperative that if we see an activation of the macroscopic current , that we are able to express that activation in terms of a change in one or the other of those so-called microscopic parameters .
19 Everyone thinks the implicit extension includes one or the other of these latter propositions , but they disagree which , because they disagree which solution best interprets the abstract goal on which they agree of equality of opportunity in court .
20 Was he just waiting for her to return so he could choose one or the other of them ?
21 One or the other of them would insist on having you to stay .
22 I know of one private home in the Darlington area where a number of elderly residents would give their eye teeth to be in one or the other of the two Darlington homes being closed .
23 Therefore the great extent of one or the other at various times in the past , might be no more than a measure of the width of the contemporary climatic belts .
24 Children are n't real people , in the sense that they are not small males and females but a separate species which will ( probably ) grow into one or the other in due time .
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