Example sentences of "than either [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His party was ready and able to fight a second campaign and ‘ immeasurably better placed ’ than either Labour or the Tories . |
| 2 | Women in second marriages are more likely to have had an affair than those in their first , and women who work full-time are , it seems , more prone to extra-curricular passions than either part-time workers or housewives . |
| 3 | In addition , unmarried women carers are more likely than either married women or men to be carrying particularly heavy caring responsibilities . |
| 4 | The consensus thus established is much more likely to create an environment which reflects the now in education ; it will certainly be more effective than either radical revolution , deschooling or free schooling . |
| 5 | If the red sunset was anything to go by , those rocks would really have their work cut out next day to be anything less than either hot or sunny . |
| 6 | In some respects a much more significant piece of legislation than either Mortmain or Circumspecte agatis was chapter 41 of the second statute of Westminster in 1285 . |
| 7 | It is again a network but it is more like a computer program flow diagram than either PERT or CPM . |
| 8 | It is again a network but it is more like a computer program flow diagram than either PERT or CPM . |
| 9 | Noticeably more women referred by GPs were admitted informally than either male GP referrals or other female referrals . |
| 10 | There was , amongst those sectioned , considerably less use of section 3 among women referred by GPs than either male GP referrals or other referrals of women . |
| 11 | Secondary females typically lay fewer eggs than either primary females or monogamously mated ones . |
| 12 | In its dependence on those presuppositions his biology was more like statistical than either celestial or quantum mechanics ( Hull , 1974 ) . |
| 13 | Unruh found that the commercial database vendors provided more reference material than either non-profit or government producers , with the exception of controlled vocabularies . |
| 14 | Dyson , besides , though unpublished and ‘ a don at Reading ’ ( as he always half-ironically described himself ) rather than at Oxford , was more a man of the world than either Tolkien or Lewis . |
| 15 | In spite of Virtues 's dogma , cleanliness is neither essential nor effective against an established infestation , and gamma-benzene hexachloride or benzyl benzoate are preferable and more effective than either carbolic acid or tobacco . |
| 16 | Some of the strategies entered in Axelrod 's tournament were much more sophisticated than either Remorseful Prober or Naive Prober , but they too ended up with fewer points , on average , than simple Tit for Tat . |
| 17 | In terms of energy , however , H 2 /CO 2 acetogenesis , with a free energy change of -95 kJ per mol , is considerably less efficient than either dissimilatory sulphate reduction or methanogenesis , and in most anaerobic ecosystems , hydrogen metabolism is dominated by one or other of these processes . |
| 18 | While the table shows that the worst graduate unemployment in 1984 was among the arts ( other than languages ) group , it also shows that scientists were more likely to be unemployed than either social studies or language graduates ( social studies here includes business , accountancy and law ) . |