Example sentences of "either [vb pp] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 On occasion there were more serious charges where preliminary hearings were held and the case either dismissed or passed on for trial at a higher court .
2 In other words , thirty-six ( or about two-thirds ) of the families that were resident in Willingham in 1575 had either moved or died out in the male line during the course of a century and a half .
3 When this happens , the shot is either pushed or sliced out to the right with no distance .
4 ‘ Orders can be either phoned or faxed in to us and delivered within 24 hours , ’ Trevor Thompson emphasised .
5 Everything had been either buried or blown out of them .
6 Items recovered are either reused or passed on to recyclers .
7 It has been argued persuasively that passages from the Bible which had been taken as prohibiting gay sex were either mistranslated or taken out of context ; that , in any case , the Bible could not be read as a set of rules to be unthinkingly obeyed ; that love and justice in sexual relationships mattered more than gender ; and that homophobia itself was sinful .
  Next page