Example sentences of "either a [noun] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was either a passage or a long , thin room , a stone-walled storage space lined with gunpowder plot-style wooden barrels . |
| 2 | Nineteenth-century choreographers creating either a character or a national ballet used both occupational and natural emotional gesture in their dance designs . |
| 3 | To women , man is often either a god or a beast . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , these encouraging results have not been substantiated in prospective studies of special forms of treatment , although it is worth noting that no proper , prospective controlled study in which patients have been randomly assigned to either a treatment or a no-treatment group has been carried out . |
| 5 | Presumably either a creditor or a debtor could commit the offence of ‘ Knowingly or recklessly giving false information to the Director ’ , which carried a penalty of £400 , two years in gaol , or both . |
| 6 | At one time there was a mill at Kexby , either a windmill or a horse mill , according to one resident . |
| 7 | ‘ It was a ferocious attack on his groin using either a knife or a screwdriver . |
| 8 | It 's thought the attackers used either a knife or a wooden stake . |
| 9 | That 's either a knife or a steel , yeah just a steel you sharpen and that 's a bigger steel than what they use , I 've got a big steeler now what I use and that 's what that would be a steel . |
| 10 | If you have not worked regularly at some time since 1978 because you have had to stay at home to care for either a child or a sick or elderly person you may have protected your right to a pension by claiming HRP . |
| 11 | The same sentence may be expressed as either a question or a statement simply by varying it 's pitch ( e.g. ‘ They 're here ! ’ and ‘ They 're here ? ’ ) . |
| 12 | An occupier of residential accommodation at a rent for a term is either a lodger or a tenant . |
| 13 | Your Land Rover may be fitted with either a Solex or a Zenith carburettor . |
| 14 | The general standard of farming was good , reflecting the influence of the sons who had attained either a degree or a diploma in agriculture before returning home . |
| 15 | Results show that the majority of students involved in the DipHE courses progressed to a degree course of some kind , and that no less than 75% of mature students achieved a degree , and 85% of the ‘ under-qualified ’ on entry achieved either a degree or a DipHE . |
| 16 | ALL OF the options being considered for block vote reform leave the trade unions with either a majority or a veto . |
| 17 | To every humble last one of these boys , Jack Cornelius was either a devil or a god . |
| 18 | She wore a smart Gor-Ray skirt , always with either a twinset or a wool blouse . |
| 19 | A physically brave man ( he was a noted wrestler and had instructed Harry Pascoe in the art at one time ) he was doctrinally circumspect , so he conducted the marriage service in such a way that he could not be labelled as either a papist or a puritan . |
| 20 | He is now in danger of receiving either a kick or a foot stomp . |
| 21 | Yet any individual who tried to get away with that would be regarded as either a crook or a crank or most likely both . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It is all right to tell a whopper on an answering machine ( ‘ We 're sorry that we can not answer your call right now ’ is either a lie or a statement of the obvious ) , but no one will forgive you for not ‘ getting back ’ to him later . |
| 24 | Each religion developed its own particular insight , but had to cater for a number of different needs : if you were born in India , for example , you were likely to be either a Buddhist or a Hindu . |
| 25 | Rolls-Royce wrote personally to all its employees yesterday claiming that either a strike or a cut to a 35-hour week would be ‘ disastrous ’ for the company . |
| 26 | He seemed a man without either a past or a future . |
| 27 | They took out large orders of tea and coffee on cardboard trays , and after wondering for a while if they were anything to do with the film business Lucy finally decided that every last one of them was probably either a builder or a shopfitter . |
| 28 | For the sit-ups either a dumb-bell or a weight disc is held to the chest , and the back is kept slightly rounded with the chin on the chest . |
| 29 | It is not a message that either a Conservative or a Labour government would listen to . |
| 30 | Early parsing algorithms worked in either a bottom-up or a top-down manner . |