Example sentences of "be [not/n't] either " in BNC.
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| 1 | She probably enjoys speaking to people who are not either obsequiously forelock-tugging or trying to upstage her . |
| 2 | Like Weber 's ‘ ideal types ’ , definitions in the sociology of religion are not either true or false , but more or less useful . |
| 3 | Composers , performers and other productive agents are not either wholly ‘ manipulated ’ or wholly ‘ critical ’ and ‘ free ’ ; their subjectivity — or the positions being continually constructed for that subjectivity — is traversed by a multitude of different , often conflicting lines of social influence , bringing them into multiple , often overlapping identities and collectivities . |
| 4 | Many traits , such as size in humans , vary continuously , or at least come in multiple forms ( i.e. humans are not either short or tall , but a wide range of heights ) . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not either . |
| 6 | No I 'm not either . |
| 7 | I 'm not either . |
| 8 | No , I 'm not either I think |
| 9 | I 'm not either . |
| 10 | They 've not much time for things that are n't either pleasurable or functional . |
| 11 | All the black kids stick together and all the white kids stick together , and you are n't either , are you ? ’ |
| 12 | If the reductivist is to be consistent , he will have to say not only that explicit existence claims are not a necessary constituent feature of a complete description of the world , but that explicit truth claims are n't either . |
| 13 | ‘ Presumably the children of the poor are n't either . |
| 14 | She and her friends seldom discussed the concept of happiness : when they were not either bored or depressed they were having a good time and enjoying themselves . |
| 15 | There were two of them , and themselves they looked young and harmless ( which probably meant they were n't either , but Doyle was satisfied to judge by appearances today ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Nothing which is not either documented by photograph or clearly indicated by surviving is replaced . |
| 17 | I hunt with a camera , to capture images of animals that may become extinct in Indochina if hunting is not either strictly controlled or stopped . |
| 18 | ‘ I can not find any precise definition of the term , it is not either in law or commerce a strictly technical term , or what is called a term of art . ’ |
| 19 | Even with his fancifulness , it is hard to imagine the civil service employing anyone who is not either a man or a woman . |
| 20 | Erm , and then erm he returns from the form of Socrates to being Socrates again and is not either er lost up in the soul erm or somehow tragically transported downward from the level of intellect into the wrong body . |
| 21 | Well it 's not either of those you 're looking for . |
| 22 | ‘ But I 'm not just enthralled , and I 'm sure Dr-I 'm sure Rose is n't either . ’ |
| 23 | Er it is n't either of the er ponds |
| 24 | Erm , I just think that over the generations er ma a er perhaps we 're forgetting that in the seventies , for instance , er well , cannabis was a at that time a popular , a popular thing , but you also had ecstasy is n't either the main thing in the in the papers |
| 25 | I 'm not too keen on just having an affair and I know he is n't either . |
| 26 | With the partial exception of the two decades which followed the Treaty of Utrecht ( and even then there were probably never less than half a million men under arms in Europe ) there was scarcely a year in the century during which a large-scale struggle was not either raging or threatened in some part of the continent . |
| 27 | I was not either , which probably explained why my kicks went between the posts ! ’ |
| 28 | Sicily for Pound never but once had any existence that was n't either verbal ( as in the wordplay on ‘ Trinacria ’ or the Eleanors ) , or else notional , ideological ( as providing a sort of slender mnemonic crutch for a tendentious reading of history ) . |
| 29 | The therapist made me feel that my obsessions were not silly or trivial and , by implication , that I was n't either . |
| 30 | Tommy Nakajima was n't either of those things . |