Example sentences of "[adj] either [verb] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a measure of the importance we now attach to sport , that although few either know or care who the latest Minister of Sport is , we pay our national team bosses far more than members of the Cabinet . |
| 2 | ‘ Their fundamental hypothesis was that ecosystems were too diverse and complex either to study or manage as one unit , ’ says DeMoss . |
| 3 | Later Bede , William of Malmesbury , Leland and Camden all either recorded or made comments on Roman remains at Carlisle . |
| 4 | However , when the risk-free asset is introduced to this situation investors will all either borrow or lend at the risk-free rate . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In milder manifestations , counselling in its true sense may help the individual concerned either to overcome or to come to terms with the tendency . |
| 7 | You may not feel able either to explain or express your own anger . |
| 8 | ‘ Vinnie had an agent who did not take the necessary precautions of being able either to edit or vet what was said on the video . |
| 9 | The condition unc asserts that the process must be able either to terminate or to stop . |
| 10 | But as he was at first without a seat in Parliament and in any event left almost immediately for extended duty in the United States , he was unable either to galvanize or to discharge any of the traditional functions of his office . |
| 11 | ‘ Nothing , ’ said Comfort , who had been unable either to forget or justify some of the things she had said to Julia during the war . |
| 12 | A lower profit margin meant that industrialists could not afford to invest enough either to expand or to modernise their plant . |
| 13 | Rain is hard on your hands during ferreting , nets become unmanageable and less effective and it is n't possible either to kneel or lie on the ground in any comfort . |
| 14 | ‘ It was one of those waves , ’ he recalled , ‘ that either make or break you . |
| 15 | Since the two groups are as alike in all respects except that one of them , the experimental group , has received the supposedly causal treatment , the new teaching style , then any differences in academic attainment between the two groups must be due either to chance or to the causal factor . |
| 16 | Due either to age or lack of an appropriate patron , he held no central office again until 1668–9 , when he was secretary to the public accounts committee , the body charged with investigating whether financial malpractice had contributed to the naval disaster at the end of the second Dutch war . |
| 17 | And on days when you feel altogether too slobby either to run or swim , you can weigh yourself , confident in the knowledge that because you have cut out all alcohol and fat and have been doing the running and swimming , your weight will have fallen . |
| 18 | To darken and dull either mixed or prepared violets , simply look to the other side of the palette for the mixing complementary . |
| 19 | The ability to move around in the competition area is essential if you are always going to be poised and ready either to attack or to respond . |