Example sentences of "one [coord] the other [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The position is put that the existing system ( here the method of dividing people into one or the other sex ) produces unfortunate consequences and should be abandoned .
2 Hence it is unlikely that one or the other constraint is truly redundant .
3 Hybridisation may result in the expression of traits that are characteristic of one or the other parent , but genome mixing occurs regardless .
4 He observed babies using ultrasound and discovered that each showed a preference for one or the other thumb .
5 It is assumed for the purposes of evaluation that either one or the other policy was implemented rather than both simultaneously .
6 Indeed , it will be seen that dare can express a sense very close to its meaning as a modal even while maintaining most of the syntactic characteristics of a full verb , in which case it is used with the bare form — eloquent proof that the use of one or the other version of the infinitive is conditioned by meaning and not by automatically operating syntactic rules .
7 Legs fly over tambourines held steady by one or the other partner .
8 I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature .
9 Sometimes , when one or the other partner grows obscenely fat , goes mad , is obsessed by TV or joins a monastery , the temptation to find ‘ a bit on the side ’ can be very compelling .
10 Accordingly , in allocating each of the matched subjects to either the control or to the experimental group , and to ensure that there is no surreptitious influence determining this allocation , the researcher randomly allocates one of each matched pair of subjects to one or the other group .
11 He 'll be cheering himself up in one or the other place by now without a backward glance .
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