Example sentences of "either [vb pp] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coaching involves knowledge which can be either taught or practically applied and Thornton looks helpfully at the role of the director as spiritual coach : |
| 2 | An apparently large number of applications were either delayed or temporarily lost . |
| 3 | A rabbit in fear of an enemy will sometimes crouch stockstill , either fascinated or else trusting to its natural inconspicuousness to remain unnoticed . |
| 4 | Ideologies have been either discarded or else molded to fit with the experience of history . |
| 5 | Within them , the companies either owned or effectively controlled the services , so that the miners and their families shopped at company shops , drank at company pubs , and played sports at colliery clubs . |
| 6 | In practice , prayer in common , above all within a non-Catholic church , theological dialogue and practical co-operation were all either forbidden or highly restricted until the Council . |
| 7 | Hotel swimming pools also fall within the framework of the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations ( COSHH ) which require that exposure to substances hazardous to health , such as water disinfectants , is either prevented or adequately controlled . |
| 8 | Radio listeners and newspaper readers were generally far better informed , but investigation showed that a great deal of news was either misunderstood or not listened to because it was incomprehensible . |
| 9 | In the reactions with NCp7 , the NCp7 was either preincubated or not preincubated with the oligonucleotide for 7 min at 37°C prior to addition of IN . |
| 10 | The industries which used to provide employment for inner city residents have either died or long since gone to the new towns or to green field sites and industrial estates on the outskirts of the towns . |
| 11 | There is evidence of a religious enthusiasm more acceptable to the establishment among the nobility , some of whom appear to have either anticipated or eagerly embraced the official establishment of new liturgical feasts in devotional offices in their private chapels . |
| 12 | Detective Sergeant Mick Ornellus , of Clacton CID , said the two men either offered or already had carried out a number of jobs for her and tricked her into parting with the money . |
| 13 | Further , one after another these theories either overlooked or actively disallowed the erotics of other kinds of difference ; as Mandy Merck observes , in such theories ‘ no non-genital differences ( of race , class , age , etc ) can signify such total Otherness , no genitally similar object can be legitimately eroticised ’ ( Merck , ‘ Difference and its Discontents ’ , 5 — 6 ) . |
| 14 | Following an open letter from a group of Northern business leaders backing the Tory cause and 13 years of Thatcherism , Tyneside director Ken Bell said : ‘ If they vote Tory there are either misled or very stupid . ’ |
| 15 | They have either demonstrated or explicitly acknowledged influences from Beckett , Nabokov , and Borges , or , within the American tradition , from Kerouac ( himself the heir of such modernists as Thomas Wolfe ) who opened up new possibilities of voice and open structure . |
| 16 | I have never in my life , in public or in private , in earnest or in jest , either called or even thought myself a fascist . |
| 17 | When someone dies unmarried [ either divorced or never having married ] and without a will their property goes to their children . |
| 18 | The man either feared or greatly respected Michael Collins . |
| 19 | The object was to recover stolen property for the owners and obtain evidence against persons who had either stolen or dishonestly handled it . |
| 20 | Some transactions were conducted with honest customers but the object of the exercise was to recover stolen property for the owners and obtain evidence against those who had either stolen or dishonestly handled it . |
| 21 | If any relationship did exist between recall and previous knowledge it may simply have been obscured by the binary nature of scoring junctions as either known or not known and the fact that most of the subjects actually knew most of the junctions previously . |
| 22 | It was obvious to me my projected work on Italy would have to be either abandoned or drastically modified . |
| 23 | And because pollarding has not been carried out , tall , heavy shoots are growing up from the ancient trunks , which are usually rotten and hollow inside , and these too often either split or simply collapse " . |
| 24 | The undeniable fact is that all worshipped ‘ gods ’ have in the past been man-made , either imagined or physically made in the form of idols . |
| 25 | At no other time has either left or right been able to form a government without the support of the FOP , which has therefore been the essential junior partner in coalition either with the CDU/CSU or , less often , with the SPD . |
| 26 | Although sequencing errors may occur as a result of either left or right sided lesions ( Kim , Royer , Bonstelle and Boller , 1980 ) it is generally held that left hemisphere damage more frequently leads to impairment . |
| 27 | The bar also has pressed ribbing to make it non-slip and can be supplied either left or right handed . |
| 28 | Bearing in mind that 500,000 Nepalese soldiers served with the British forces in the two world wars , that no fewer than 50,000 were either killed or seriously wounded , that 13 won Victoria Crosses , that 13 British officers serving with the Gurkhas also won Victoria Crosses , and that under ’ Options for Change ’ we are proposing to reduce the number of Gurkhas from 8,000 to 2,500 , can my hon. Friend assure the House that the Foreign Office will take into account the reduction in what amounts to aid , currently provided through pay and pensions , in its future plans for aid to Nepal ? |
| 29 | All the seventeen mosques in the town of Foca either destroyed or severely damaged . |
| 30 | Within two hours eight battleships and over 180 aircraft had been either destroyed or severely damaged , and there were over 3000 casualties . |