Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] either [art] [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will rarely be the case that either an animal or a human will be provided with the opportunity to mate with an absolutely ideal member of the opposite sex . |
| 2 | Theodora suspected that this was not an exercise that either the Bishop or the Archdeacon had had to perform before . |
| 3 | This is best controlled with either a tablet and either a stylus or a puck but , given a steady hand , it works pretty well with a mouse . |
| 4 | At present if either the applicant or the council ( though not objectors ) insist , a public inquiry must be held . |
| 5 | 233 seems to be that if a wife signs a security document at her debtor husband 's request , the creditor will be unable to enforce the security unless either the debtor or the creditor has taken positive steps to try and ensure that the wife understands the import of the security documents or unless she has obtained independent advice . |
| 6 | The long tradition that regards consent as either the foundation or a foundation of legitimate authority displays two separate strands of thought . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For each one that is removed , there is a 5% chance that either a Bloodletter or a Fleshhound ( equal chance for either ) suddenly appears and attacks . |
| 9 | If , within 5 minutes of a want demand being refused , Joanne had not started screaming ( or any other tantrum behaviour ) , she was rewarded with praise and either a toy or a sweet from a reward ‘ menu ’ kept for that purpose . |
| 10 | It is not a message that either a Conservative or a Labour government would listen to . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But still more important for the laity in the Church than either the decree or chapter 4 of Lumen Gentium ( precisely on the laity ) , remains chapter 2 , ‘ The People of God ’ , which located the basic roles of all Christians in aspects of the nature of the Church deeper than the hierarchical . |
| 13 | This occurs between a firm and either a supplier or an outlet . |
| 14 | A child born abroad will be a British citizen by descent if either the father or mother was born or adopted in the United Kingdom or acquired citizenship by registration or naturalization . |
| 15 | This was a gambler 's reward , because the chance of war might leave a man as either the recipient or the payer of a large sum . |
| 16 | Only decimal arithmetic may be provided , or separate instruction sets might treat each computer word as either a binary or a decimal value . |
| 17 | This can be contrasted with hospital care where either the patient or his relatives or both are not informed about the imminence of his death . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Each computer on the network should have its own registered copy of each piece of software unless either a site or networking licence is obtained . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In what circumstances would it be inappropriate to recognize a cost as either an expense or an asset ? |
| 23 | That would seem to imply little reliability as either a mirror or informer of public opinion . |