Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] either [noun] or [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 These findings were also confirmed in the USA , where Butler and Fuguitt ( 1970 ) and Hassinger ( 1957 ) from work in Wisconsin and Minnesota , found that rural settlements near larger albeit not very much larger towns , tended to grow faster than average , although the findings were not universal through either time or space .
2 one which does not exclude the bailor from possession , an action for conversion against a third person is maintainable by either bailor or bailee ; by the bailee because he is in possession , by the bailor because it is said that his title to the goods draws with it the right to possession , that the bailee is something like his servant and that the possession of the one is equivalent to that of the other .
3 Both responded by embracing democratic consensus so wholeheartedly that opposition became synonymous with either irresponsibility or extremism .
4 But the normal biological processes of ageing are not synonymous with either disease or loss of function .
5 We have no record of whether Miss McQueen — ‘ not inelegant in either mien or dress ’ , as Johnson found her : Boswell calls her ‘ a modest , civil girl , very neatly dressed ’ — found Cocker 's Arithmetick equally absorbing .
6 The phonetic sequences involved in either onomatopoeia or sound symbolism are clearly not to be considered semantic constituents .
7 This type is available in either brass or plastic , and often sold as ‘ quiet ’ ballvalves .
8 It carries a 10-year wear warranty and is available in either plank or tile form , £38 per sq m Accessories : Zeppo Viola halogen desk lamp , £35 .
9 Many of these people were conservative by either party or inclination — or both .
10 Then , by putting my ear to the handle , I hear sounds that tell me whether or not the blade is close to either rabbit or ferret .
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