Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] either [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would seem to imply little reliability as either a mirror or informer of public opinion . |
| 2 | Now there is more to this passage than either the story that it heralds , poignant and memorable though that is , or the condescending tone of the last sentence , for the innocence Davin embodies brings to Stephen as a brute fact from the real world the missing half of a truth which Stephen has known but so far been unable to admit even to himself , and which will go on mattering to Joyce for many years . |
| 3 | If the same dose and type of insulin are given at the same time each day and either the food intake or the amount of physical activity fluctuates to a significant degree , the consequences are going to be unacceptable hyperglycaemia or hypoglycaemia . |
| 4 | When it comes to the separation of powers and the system of checks and balances that the constitution asserted , it is also clear that the bureaucracy was given a much more equal share than either the Diet or the Judiciary . |
| 5 | There remained doubts over implementing the accord , particularly because right-wing factions in the military and the wealthy ruling oligarchy had not been party to the talks , and because hardline elements within the FMLN might not accept the dropping of a previous key demand that either the army be disbanded or its ranks be reduced and the remainder merged into those of the guerrillas . |
| 6 | A common lawyer , as in the 1520s , might seem a better choice than either a noble or a cleric in an office so concerned with the law , but in the early fourteenth century common lawyers were regarded with some suspicion by the king-witness the attempts to get them barred from parliament — and by people whose complaints about the corruption of lay judges were frequent until late in the century . |
| 7 | What John " auntres " , by contrast , is a trick he must know from elsewhere — he decides to try out what he can have learnt only from a fabliau such as the related English , French , Dutch , Italian and German examples , banking on the sure expectation that either the miller or his wife will eventually get out of bed to allow the plot to be fulfilled . |
| 8 | In this test a load is applied to the two ends of a long bar of uniform cross-section and either the displacement of the ends or that of two fiducial marks on the surface of the bar observed as a function of the applied load . |
| 9 | However , officials working on EC foreign policy co-operation discouraged any suggestion that either a statement or a special meeting to consider Panama was likely in the near future . |
| 10 | Hardraw is a good starting point for Shunner Fell and Lovely Seat , the two hills that flank the famous Butter Tubs Pass , and is known to many who have walked the Pennine Way as either the end or the beginning of the day that takes you from Tan Hill to Hawes or vice versa , depending on which direction you are walking . |