Example sentences of "[art] [noun] either [verb] or " in BNC.
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| 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 | And Salsburg found that , when he applied statistical tests to the NCI data , between 3 and 70 per cent of the compounds either caused or protected against cancer , depending on the stringency of the decision rule used . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | With regard to points three and four above , the prosecution has the choice of proving that the tippee either knew or had reasonable cause to believe the stipulated circumstances . |
| 5 | While this may be " absurd " , there are other hints that the position was more complex than the Encomiast either knew or wanted to admit . |
| 6 | The former is a tenancy made by the agreement of the parties on the terms that either may put an end to it at any moment at the shortest notice ; the latter arises where a tenant whose interest has expired continues in possession without the landlord either assenting or dissenting . |
| 7 | Any horse hitting one more than six inches from the top either fell or , at best , landed at an angle too steep for comfort . |
| 8 | Husband and wife pass , the wife either spinning or knitting ; for the island economy depends on sales of its fine weaving and knitting . |
| 9 | Faced with evidence to the contrary , which the government of the day either believed or at least affected to believe , they resort to describing the reports of arms , oaths and plans for insurrection sent in by government spies as exaggerations or fabrications , especially those of Bent , from Lancashire : " The Home Office Papers contain numbers of illiterate communications from him , full of lurid hints of the approaching outbursts of the lower orders , encouraged by mysterious beings in higher places . " |
| 10 | Marines hit the ground either running or flopping on to their stomachs at three points along the 10,000ft runways as they took up positions . |
| 11 | After careful consideration of all the evidence and relevant law the Tribunal either upholds or dismisses the appeal . |
| 12 | Universal franchise has not produced the working-class political dominance which so many people in the nineteenth century on both sides of the debate either feared or hoped that it would . |
| 13 | and we must insist that the Government either justifies or reports its position . |
| 14 | The sixteen giant stainless steel tanks in which this waste is kept have to be constantly agitated and cooled to stop the liquid either precipitating or becoming too hot . |
| 15 | The man either feared or greatly respected Michael Collins . |
| 16 | The master , nevertheless , will always retain the power either to accept or reject the advice . |
| 17 | Felicity had come out in a severe facial rash and spent the time either screaming or staring fixedly at the paperknife on her desk . |
| 18 | In the early 1970s something of a similar competitive battle emerged in which a series of well known holiday firms at the time either collapsed or got into severe financial difficulties ( Clarksons , Horizon Midland , Court Line amongst others ) . |
| 19 | If it was not for her , this Council would have had more opportunity of addressing some of the deep problems the Tories either created or left behind . |
| 20 | In writing this book we have assumed that the reader either owns or has access to copies of both Warhammer and Warhammer Battle Magic . |
| 21 | When we are sinned against we have a decision either to forgive or harbour resentment . |
| 22 | In a closed economy with no government sector where no money either enters or leaves the system it would be possible for total liquidity adjustment between banks to occur in such a way . |
| 23 | He said Mr Lamont declared in last year 's Budget he had ‘ no need , no proposals and no plans either to raise or to extend the scope of VAT ’ . |
| 24 | So was Mr Lamont in last year 's , pre-election , Budget : ‘ I have no need , no proposals and no plans either to raise or to extend the scope of VAT . ’ |
| 25 | But Ruth had no heart either to appreciate or to envy her mistress . |
| 26 | These people will have no right to enter Britain and no right either to work or vote in Britain or elsewhere . |
| 27 | Will the Prime Minister join me in reaffirming that no group either using or supporting violence will be allowed by any Government to bomb its way to the conference table ? |
| 28 | Whilst it is hoped that this text as a whole will contribute to the development of the personal qualities necessary for successful salesmanship , this chapter concentrates specifically on those aspects of international selling with which a firm either exporting or contemplating the same should be familiar . |
| 29 | But the villagers regarded the new name as no more than a foreigner 's eccentric fancy which they were under no obligation either to use or recognise . |
| 30 | Rapeman 's brief British college tour was a shambles , every show either cancelled or picketed by irate student unions . |