Example sentences of "[prep] either [noun] or [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modernity , then , is incurably materialistic but it can look towards either collectivism or individualism . |
| 2 | Although I do not begin to claim the sort of historical breadth of either Brown or Bynum , I do believe that their approach is not only helpful but necessary if we are going , as we must , to use the lives of women before us to encourage us forward . |
| 3 | Since there was no meat left now , the ration from now on until the supplies were exhausted would consist of one handful of either rice or dal and one of flour per person , the men being given a more generous helping than the women and children . |
| 4 | • have a firm diagnosis of either tenosynovitis or writer 's cramp . |
| 5 | I 'm really upset , as all the birthday cards seem to be of either goldens or roans . |
| 6 | They had all grown used to the sounds of the camp : the low open-air roar of many voices , the lowing of cattle , the chiming of harness and smith-work , the continual creak of John 's waterpumps ; the intermittent discharge of either cannon or handguns . |
| 7 | Now equally of course organization can stultify progress , enmesh teachers and students alike in a nightmare of regulations and restrictions , tie up materials and equipment that could otherwise be productively used , and generally contribute more to the personal empires of individuals than to liberation of either teachers or students . |
| 8 | Instead there were no beggars on the city streets of either Pesth or Kinsai , and no one in any of the towns and villages through which he had passed seemed to be poorly clothed or underfed . |
| 9 | From the above results it appears that the positivity of either ANA-H or SMA-AA , although significantly associated with signs of marked immune stimulation ( higher hypergammaglobulinemia Table I ) , does not allow to rule out a coexistent hepatitis C virus infection . |
| 10 | Between 1985 and 2025 the number of pensioners was set to rise from 9 million to over 12 million ; and the total cost of pensions for the public would rise from £17 billion a year to almost £36 billion if pensions were linked with prices and to a colossal £50 billion if they were linked , as Labour wanted , to the higher of either prices or earnings . |
| 11 | Perhaps the strangest ‘ Christmas ’ internee festival of either country or war took place fifty years ago today . |
| 12 | The stereoscopic images were accurately synthesized to mimic the viewing of a flat , densely textured , fronto-parallel surface at a distance of either 28cm or infinity . |
| 13 | Note that the mole fraction of either A or B can be used to express the composition of the solution . |
| 14 | What is more worthy of comment is the high number of tonsillectomies for this cause , given the evidence that tonsillectomy does not enhance the effectiveness of either adenoidectomy or insertion of grommets in improving hearing . |
| 15 | It is very difficult in the circumstances of either Mozambique or Nicaragua to evaluate conclusively the effectiveness of policies which promote education as a means of transforming society , although in the case of Nicaragua , despite the problems , government-sponsored initiatives clearly scored successes , both in educational terms and in terms of social change . |
| 16 | ( see Overprinting ) printing over a previously printed area of either text or graphics . |
| 17 | The study by Williams et al reported no metabolism of either butyrate or glutamine by biopsy specimens taken from two UC patients , although there was no report on tissue viability . |
| 18 | This will avoid the inclination of either management or labour to wrongly allocate the time spent on work attracting bonus to other non-bonus operations . |
| 19 | Really Dersingham has his name and not very much else in the way of either sense or property . ’ |
| 20 | A more serious problem arises where the applicant does not rate highly in terms of either expertise or ability , that is where the content of the degree is irrelevant , and the quality of it uninspiring . |
| 21 | Control , in the form of either transformation or refusal to translate , is a minority practice even at this ‘ bottom ’ end of the occupation . |
| 22 | The hon. Member for Foyle ( Mr. Hume ) has , much more eloquently than I could , told us of the damage that it does and the effect that it has on the young people of Northern Ireland because it gives them a future of either migration or unemployment . |
| 23 | Distinction does not provide a theory of either consumption or material culture as the form of modern culture . |
| 24 | There should be approximate equivalence of numbers so long as there has been no preferential loss of either jaws or teeth , and the expected percentage values should be in the region of 100 per cent . |
| 25 | No it 's not this holiday gives you the choice of either hotels or self catering , situated in the beautiful coast coastal town of Travana , summer in cha , chateau six days , one bed and breakfast , four half board |
| 26 | well not posters , the horsewatch is a prime example where I wanted to look at setting a format in a particular way , and to sit at the side of either Alf or Tracey well now alter it to that or to that I 'm sure they 'd do it , but nevertheless it 's putting them off their work . |
| 27 | If this was delusion it was given a sense of realism in the immediate post-war world through the UK economy being clearly stronger than the economies of either Europe or Japan [ Barnett , 1972 ; Maddison , 1984 ] . |
| 28 | The age and history , ownership or use of either land or buildings , the date of any alterations and , importantly , the person or company by whom it was designed , built or altered , and the date are also covered by the Act . |
| 29 | With this in mind there is distinct reluctance about the direction of Working Paper 7 since it effectively takes no cognisance of either tradition or authority . |
| 30 | Because , Nizan asserts , Friedmann is unable to perceive the necessity of the organic link between theory and practice , he is led not only to the purely academic conclusion that it is incorrect to speak of the " philosophy " of either Lenin or Stalin , but also , and more significantly , to an inability to perceive the fundamentally different objectives pursued by Lenin and Trotsky . |