Example sentences of "[prep] either [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modernity , then , is incurably materialistic but it can look towards either collectivism or individualism . |
| 2 | Since there was no meat left now , the ration from now on until the supplies were exhausted would consist of one handful of either rice or dal and one of flour per person , the men being given a more generous helping than the women and children . |
| 3 | • have a firm diagnosis of either tenosynovitis or writer 's cramp . |
| 4 | A ‘ renewable energy source ’ is one which does not depend on finite reserves of either fossil or nuclear fuels . |
| 5 | The consequences for the animal are ultimately identical , but for the humans their actions are couched in a class-ridden dressing of either romanticism or oafish brutality . |
| 6 | Perhaps the strangest ‘ Christmas ’ internee festival of either country or war took place fifty years ago today . |
| 7 | At the depth of a hundred feet , which is what we will be at , we could easily remain underwater for an hour without any risk of either oxygen poisoning or decompression illness . |
| 8 | The latter agents may not cause abnormalities of either carbohydrate or lipid metabolism ( Donnelly & Harrower , 1980 ; Faergeman et al , 1984 ; Rodjmark & Andersson , 1984 ) , despite several case reports ( Charles et al , 1981 ; Bhatnagar et al , 1984 ) , and they may have fewer side-effects than cardioselective β-blocking drugs . |
| 9 | What is more worthy of comment is the high number of tonsillectomies for this cause , given the evidence that tonsillectomy does not enhance the effectiveness of either adenoidectomy or insertion of grommets in improving hearing . |
| 10 | There was none of the so-called obscenity — real sex shops and real sex films or honest free-trading prostitutes of either sex , or any allied pleasurable activities : the scourge of the righteous . |
| 11 | Eventually , after appealing her case for years in the UK , she took it to the European Court which agreed that there must be equal opportunities to claim social security benefits , and that discrimination on the grounds of either sex or marital status must end . |
| 12 | However , I am not personally aware of any research revealing that adult British people of either sex or any size can live on 1,000 calories daily without shedding weight , whether they are aiming to do so or not . |
| 13 | The stars of either sex clustered in twos or threes , massing their power , or strode out alone , shining soloists , while the less attractive gathered for protection in groups outside the offices of some religious or political organization . |
| 14 | ( see Overprinting ) printing over a previously printed area of either text or graphics . |
| 15 | The study by Williams et al reported no metabolism of either butyrate or glutamine by biopsy specimens taken from two UC patients , although there was no report on tissue viability . |
| 16 | This will avoid the inclination of either management or labour to wrongly allocate the time spent on work attracting bonus to other non-bonus operations . |
| 17 | Really Dersingham has his name and not very much else in the way of either sense or property . ’ |
| 18 | Gel retardation was done in F9 EC whole cell extracts ( in which DRTF1/E2F resolves as complexes a , b and c ) with an E2F binding site ( E2A promoter sequences -71 to -50 ) in the presence of either preimmune or immune anti-peptide A serum with the addition of either unrelated peptide 1 ( tracks 3 and 7 ) or peptide A ( tracks 4 and 8 ) ; 3 and 4 represent two different rabbit antisera. c , DP-1 is in the affinity-pure DRTF1/E2F DNA-binding complex . |
| 19 | Gel retardation was done in F9 EC whole cell extracts with either a class 1 ( tracks 1–4 ) or class 2 ( tracks 5–8 ) binding site in the presence of either preimmune or immune anti-peptide A ( antiserum 4 ) , together with either unrelated peptide 1 ( tracks 3 and 7 ) or peptide A ( tracks 4 and 8 ) . |
| 20 | Another potentially significant resource is local authority training departments , as providers of either expertise or actual courses . |
| 21 | A more serious problem arises where the applicant does not rate highly in terms of either expertise or ability , that is where the content of the degree is irrelevant , and the quality of it uninspiring . |
| 22 | For larger areas and for more distant detached portions of parishes , a likely explanation is distant resources of either woodland or seasonal pasture shared with other villages . |
| 23 | Control , in the form of either transformation or refusal to translate , is a minority practice even at this ‘ bottom ’ end of the occupation . |
| 24 | The hon. Member for Foyle ( Mr. Hume ) has , much more eloquently than I could , told us of the damage that it does and the effect that it has on the young people of Northern Ireland because it gives them a future of either migration or unemployment . |
| 25 | Just how the wave crosses the gap junction is unknown , but it could depend upon the diffusion of either calcium itself or InsP 3 . |
| 26 | Distinction does not provide a theory of either consumption or material culture as the form of modern culture . |
| 27 | The age and history , ownership or use of either land or buildings , the date of any alterations and , importantly , the person or company by whom it was designed , built or altered , and the date are also covered by the Act . |
| 28 | With this in mind there is distinct reluctance about the direction of Working Paper 7 since it effectively takes no cognisance of either tradition or authority . |
| 29 | Everything presented to the court is designed to support their basic argument of either guilt or innocence . |
| 30 | The other favours reflux of either bile or duodenal content as the important carcinogenic factor . |