Example sentences of "is either [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exact date is not known for certain , but is either July 12th or 19th 1958 . |
| 2 | Actually most is either hills or mountains , if you look actually you can draw a picture of a hill or a mountain , but most , most of the land er hills or mountains which is very interesting is n't it ? |
| 3 | ( iii ) Additional award The maximum additional award is either £5,330 for ordinary cases or £10,660 for discriminatory cases . |
| 4 | It is not the book that you stay up huffing and mewing with laughter over until the middle of the night — that is either Dervla Murphy 's Muddling Through in Madagascar ( Arrow Books , 1990 ) or Sir David Attenborough 's original Zoo Quest to Madagascar , which richly deserves reprinting . |
| 5 | Accounting software house Sage Plc has finally launched the Macintosh version of its mid-range Sterling +2 package software , along with a revamped version of its MainLan peer-to-peer networking system and enhanced version of its Sovereign high end accounting system : the announcements were accompanied by the news that Sage Sterling +2 has now been included in the IT Recommended Product Scheme run by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ; the Bookkeeper version of Sterling +2 for the Mac , available now , is £150 , the Accountant version is £350 ; MainLan 4.0 for MS-DOS and for Windows said to be faster and takes up 20% less memory than its predecessor is either £400 for the 16-bit starter kit boards or £200 with 8-bit boards ; the ‘ super enhanced ’ Sovereign 4.7 now has full EuroVAT reporting and improved profit and loss , stock take and help facilities and costs £350 for single users or £600 for multiple users . |
| 6 | Example 4:7 Side by side rent sharing SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule : ( a ) " rental income " means the aggregate of : ( i ) any yearly or other periodical sums payable under an occupational lease including sums payable by virtue of any enactment ; ( ii ) any sums payable by way of interest under an occupational lease ; ( iii ) any sums payable by way of damages or compensation for any breach of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease ; ( iv ) any sum payable by a guarantor of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease pursuant to his guarantee ; ( v ) any premium paid or other capital payment made by a tenant under an occupational lease in connection with the grant assignment variation or surrender of an occupational lease ; ( vi ) any sum payable under a policy of insurance in respect of loss of rent or other income ( b ) " permitted deductions " means the aggregate of : ( i ) expenses reasonably incurred by the tenant in order to comply with its obligations as landlord under an occupational lease ; ( ii ) legal costs incurred by the tenant in enforcing obligations under occupational leases except to the extent that the tenant recovers those costs from a party to an occupational lease ; ( iii ) the amount of any compensation or damages which the tenant is liable by statute or ordered to pay to any party to an occupational lease whether for non-renewal of a tenancy breach of covenant breach of obligation compensation for improvements or otherwise ; ( iv ) the cost of management and rent collection not exceeding … per cent of rental income ( c ) " notional rental income " means the rack rental value of any lettable unit which is either unlet or vacant or occupied by the tenant or by a group company the value to be determined as at the date on which the unit in question ceased to be let or occupied or as the case may be become occupied by the tenant or a group company and redetermined every year ( d ) " lettable unit " means a part of the property which is designed constructed or adapted for letting to an occupying retail trader ( e ) " occupational lease " means a lease under which physical possession of a lettable unit was granted by the tenant ( f ) " rack rental value " of any lettable unit at any time means the rent at which that unit might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market for a term of not less than ten years with an upwards only rent review on every fifth anniversary of the beginning of the term and on such other terms as would be expected to be negotiated in the open market ( including such financial inducements and concessions as are usual in the market at that time ) ( g ) " group company " means a company which would be treated as a member of the same group of companies as the tenant for the purposes of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 ( h ) " divisible income " means the difference between : ( i ) rental income plus notional rental income ; and ( ii ) permitted deductions but divisible income shall never be less than nil ( i ) " the first slice " means such part of divisible income as does not exceed £ ( j ) " the second slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ but does not exceed £ ( k ) " the top slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ ( 2 ) The rent payable by the tenant is the aggregate of : ( a ) … per cent of the first slice ; ( b ) … per cent of the second slice ; and ( c ) … per cent of the top slice to be paid by equal quarterly payments on the usual quarter days |
| 7 | That is either voltage or ligands , in the cases respectively of voltage activated channels or ligand activated channels , both of those factors will act at the level of gating . |
| 8 | Depending on the rock type , the tunnel is either self supporting or shored with metal arches and stabilised by spraying the walls with concrete . |
| 9 | In Europe , the southern limit is either Cabo Sagres ( Nobre , 1931 ) close to Cape St. Vincent ( Portugal ) at 37°N or the Straits of Gibraltar ( Fretter & Graham , 1985 ) from whence it extends northwards , around the North Cape of Norway , into the White Sea to reach 73°N on the west coast of Novaya Zemlya ( Cooke , 1915 ) . |
| 10 | Some critics feel that she is either Emma returned from the grave , or a supernatural vision ; though both these interpretations make some sense , I feel that the most obvious possibility is the true one . |
| 11 | Edit the RDBI configuration file and ensure that the relational database type specified is either RDB or ORACLE . |
| 12 | All I can say is , this is either bullshit , or it 's the biggest story in the history of mankind . ’ . |
| 13 | The browning on the lower plants is either algae or the plants are dying . |
| 14 | In neither class group is either norm — satisfaction or dissatisfaction — adhered to absolutely . |
| 15 | She is either Joan of Arc or the She-Devil . |
| 16 | Almost three-quarters of the 398,000 tonnes of cheese sold in the UK each year is either cheddar or ‘ territorial ’ cheeses such as Cheshire and Red Leicester . |
| 17 | All true art is either Apolline or Dionysiac or both . |
| 18 | For example , many adult education institutes , traditionally non-vocational , now put on courses for specific language examinations , that is either GCSE or A-levels with a choice of examination boards , those of the Institute of Linguists , the RSA or in the case of EFL , the Cambridge examinations amongst many others . |
| 19 | The treatment prescribed in may cases is either vitamin B6 or the contraceptive pill ( only around 20% of respondents found either to be helpful ) . |
| 20 | Edit the RDBI configuration file and ensure that the transfer category specified is either ASSESSMENTS or NOASSESSMENTS . |
| 21 | This module is either Source or Foreign . |
| 22 | The simplistic rule seems to be that almost everything in Europe ( in modem terms ) is either north-east-south-west or else it is east-west . |
| 23 | If you 're buying a car stereo , try to get one which is either security coded or can be easily removed and taken with you when the car is parked . |