Example sentences of "[verb] to be either [verb] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , Morrison 's narrative of violent neighbourhood rivalries , robberies and attacks on policemen — ‘ for kicking practice ’ as he put it — did not need to be either borrowed or invented in late nineteenth-century London . |
| 2 | Those that advocated social or political change in a reasoned and intelligent manner seemed to be either ignored or ended up defeated and disillusioned by the whole sorry mess . |
| 3 | It occurs naturally in Palestine , but the hyssop of the Bible is thought to be either marjoram or the caper plant ( Capparis spinosa ) . |
| 4 | Labour is typically characterised as simply waiting to be either exploited or abandoned by capital . |
| 5 | It was obvious to me my projected work on Italy would have to be either abandoned or drastically modified . |
| 6 | Over 1500 teeth were examined from pellet samples of adult birds from South Africa , Kenya and England , and none were found to be either digested or broken . |
| 7 | Walker ( 1981 ) , for example , has shown how psychology regards the male as ‘ norm ’ ; any results which show that women behave differently tend to be either ignored or dismissed as an anomaly . |
| 8 | Although printed indexes tend to be either controlled or natural language , many large databases can now be searched in both ways . |
| 9 | Now in the eyes of the law , they have committed a crime , but if you put that situation before a jury , and even though the judge may instruct the jury , a crime has been committed , you must find them guilty , the jury 's inclination will probably be to say , natural justice , you , that you you done what was required of you , that you do n't deserve to be either convicted or sent to prison for it . |
| 10 | She knelt down on the cushion , placed her ungloved hands together , closed her eyes and appeared to be either thinking or sleeping in an upright kneeling position . |
| 11 | The trade deficit had to be either financed or reduced : the former course meant courting the international financial institutions with their implicit or explicit power of veto over domestic policy , while the latter meant either fiscal deflation in excess of the deflation of demand already induced by the OPEC financial surplus ( in paradoxical combination with cost-inflation ) or setting up stringent import controls . |