Example sentences of "[prep] either [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Councillors are being asked to either refuse the snack bar application or agree in principle and refer the fee and conditions to the Works and Health Committee . |
| 2 | It is no longer possible to either create a toner particle small enough to stick to a single pixel of charge or to maintain that pixel of charge in isolation long enough for the toner , were it there , to stick . |
| 3 | This index page enables you to select the option to either create a Design Change ( DC ) , update a DC , or submit a DC . |
| 4 | This index enables you to select an option to either create a Product , update a Product , or register a Product . |
| 5 | This index enables you to select the option to either create a Client or update a Client . |
| 6 | This index enables you to select the option to either create an Issue or update an Issue . |
| 7 | Pedestrians going down the steps from the bus stop are hidden by trees and shrubs and have to either walk in the road or cross over to find a pavement . |
| 8 | Well I heard not so long ago that they were going to either pull it down or |
| 9 | As a consequence of this you are tempted to either stop your regime entirely and remain fat , or start a crash diet . |
| 10 | He longed for her to either finish her job and go back to Germany , or do something blatantly treacherous so he would have an excuse to get rid of her . |
| 11 | Most have been down to either rank bad defending or bad luck . |
| 12 | To discriminate clearly between various L1 containing cell types in the same section , five step three colour staining was performed as follows : ( a ) monoclonal antibody to either eosinophil cationic protein or neutrophil elastase or a mix of both was first applied ; ( b ) biotinylated horse anti-mouse IgG ; ( c ) mix of FITC-labelled Streptavidin , monoclonal antibody to CD68 , and unconjugated antiserum to L1 ; ( d ) biotinylated horse anti-mouse IgG ; and ( e ) AMCA-conjugated goat anti-rabbit IgG mixed with Streptavidin Texas Red . |
| 13 | The major national breweries themselves began to either acquire or be acquired by non-brewing companies so as to form larger conglomerates such as Allied-Lyons ( formed when Allied Breweries took over the catering group J. Lyons in 1978 ) , Grand Metropolitan ( formed when Grand Met Hotels took over Truman Hanbury and Buxton in 1971 and Watney Mann in 1972 ) and Imperial ( formed when Imperial Tobacco acquired Courage Breweries in 1972 ) . |
| 14 | When we have finished ( in the last main chapter ) with the theory of island biogeography , we still end up concluding ‘ that there are insufficient data to either validate or falsify the hypothesis that caves or cave regions are virtual islands ’ . |
| 15 | Take a small water boiler such as those used for making tea — they are great for boiling water to either drink or clean your teeth . |
| 16 | Patterns can be set to either remain fixed while shapes rotate over them or they can rotate with the shape , the two modes can not be mixed within an illustration . |
| 17 | It had been a long time since she had had to stop herself simply blowing away an enemy that she found herself unable to either maim or restrain . |
| 18 | You strike me as an intelligent young woman and I refuse to believe that you were silly enough to go to Mr Riddle with such proposals unless you were in a position to either bribe or threaten him . ’ |
| 19 | Ideally mobile units of 100 or 200 bird houses are preferable if it is possible to either move regularly , or at the end of a laying period on to new pasture . |
| 20 | During the union 's last strike on April 16 , Britain 's 11,000 mile rail network was brought to a standstill and nearly 100,000 London-bound East Anglian passengers were forced to either stay at home or make alternative arrangements to reach the capital . |
| 21 | Both the county and the city councils are to ask the Government to either meet the full costs of the 7.5pc rise or lift the authorities ' charge-capping limits . |
| 22 | This option enables you to either grant or deny approval to a package . |
| 23 | They can often appear normal at birth but then start to either wander about aimlessly as if blind or even in more serious cases show convulsions . |
| 24 | WHEN Mrs Norma Major first came to our attention , she was reported to either make her own clothes or buy them off the peg from John Lewis . |
| 25 | As well as being subjected to extreme temperature changes outside , having to constantly leave a warm room to either make a cup of tea or go to the toilet , for example , meant that they were doubly exposed to cold stress as well as to daily stress . |
| 26 | These characteristics suggest that a number of preconditions are necessary before the addition of Rhizobium to either plant or soil will be effective in promoting nitrogen enhancement . |
| 27 | That would force Mr Reynolds to either announce a general election or struggle on with minority status and face defeat on an inevitable no-confidence motion within the week . |
| 28 | This technique retains the constant mean heat input but instead of measuring the temperature difference during a change a servo-system immediately increases the energy input to either sample or reference to maintain both at the same temperature . |
| 29 | Forcing me to make that dreadful decision when we were first married — to either go abroad with him , or look after my father — was something I 've always found terribly hard to forgive . |
| 30 | The ideas expressed may well be wide of the mark , or they may not be , but this does not really matter since the purpose of hypotheses is to stimulate more ideas , and the research to either confirm or refute them . |