Example sentences of "either [adj] or [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When asked to appear in ’ Frankie 's On ’ for Central , the comedian answered , ’ Well it was either that or join the Chippendales . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's either that or take the job the youth employment officer has set up for me . ’ |
| 3 | It 's either that or taking a day 's leave on the Friday . |
| 4 | It was either that or tackle the beast with his bare hands . |
| 5 | Either that or find a robin who looks as if he has a purpose in life . |
| 6 | moon god of Thebes , child of Amun and Mut , who is either falcon-headed or has a moon disk on his head . |
| 7 | If you do n't tremble when Dave sings the line ‘ God , you 're beautiful , you really are ’ , you 're either comatose or possess the soul of a politician . |
| 8 | Such problems have led Neiss ( 1988 ) to conclude that the inverted-U relationship is probably true but only in the psychologically trivial sense that performance is impaired when the subject is either sleepy or facing an imminent external threat . |
| 9 | Their translations were often either incorrect or contained a word left in English for which the translator could find no equivalent in his language . |
| 10 | — either smiling or tensing the muscles around their mouths |
| 11 | In 47 of these tests , the rotors were used either alone or to supplement the power delivered by the ship 's 120 kW Diesel engine . |
| 12 | The libraries with the most extensive training programmes were most likely to be the ones who had clearly identified their training needs , and who were looking for ways of either increasing or maintaining the effectiveness of their training by developing methods that would enable them to get round the restriction of decreasing staff ‘ mobility ’ . |
| 13 | Both shifting the timing of the sleep period from the habitual 12 p.m. to 8 a.m. and either increasing or decreasing the total amount of sleep had similar effects in reducing accuracy and speed of response on a vigilance task . |
| 14 | There was a price agreement for a specific task , either coal-getting or doing the necessary stonework in preparation , and Trist et al. ( 1963 ) observe that management dealt with workers through the union to a far greater extent than in most industries . |