Example sentences of "[was/were] not either " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and her friends seldom discussed the concept of happiness : when they were not either bored or depressed they were having a good time and enjoying themselves . |
| 2 | There were two of them , and themselves they looked young and harmless ( which probably meant they were n't either , but Doyle was satisfied to judge by appearances today ) . |
| 3 | With the partial exception of the two decades which followed the Treaty of Utrecht ( and even then there were probably never less than half a million men under arms in Europe ) there was scarcely a year in the century during which a large-scale struggle was not either raging or threatened in some part of the continent . |
| 4 | I was not either , which probably explained why my kicks went between the posts ! ’ |
| 5 | Sicily for Pound never but once had any existence that was n't either verbal ( as in the wordplay on ‘ Trinacria ’ or the Eleanors ) , or else notional , ideological ( as providing a sort of slender mnemonic crutch for a tendentious reading of history ) . |
| 6 | The therapist made me feel that my obsessions were not silly or trivial and , by implication , that I was n't either . |
| 7 | Tommy Nakajima was n't either of those things . |
| 8 | With its two twin towers of baroque grey stone , it was just about the only building in Moon Beach that was n't either white or pale-blue . |
| 9 | ‘ But it would seem that Andropulos was n't either . ’ |
| 10 | The truth was , Froebe 's almost entirely military life had left him unable to cope with anyone who was n't either a bloodthirsty volunteer , or a conscript to be whipped into shape . |
| 11 | ‘ No , he was n't either . |
| 12 | A full-scale round-the-clock watch obviously was n't either necessary or appropriate , but we did something to monitor his movements . ’ |
| 13 | Chairman , I , I , I , I object to that , because I think that that was n't either the tone of my question or or the implication of my question . |
| 14 | I did n't get on very well with Harriet and I was n't either of the Williams it 's Tim Annie or either of the Harriets , no shit . |