Example sentences of "either [prep] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The patient may be referred to such agencies either during or at the end of treatment .
2 This is to prevent legal problems arising either during or at the end of the tenancy .
3 It certainly does not per se affect the nature , quality or value of the land either during or at the end of the term .
4 For a small minority , success led to A level courses the following year , but for the great majority the goal was employment either during or at the end of the year .
5 After all , you do n't want to die of AIDS — either during or after your college career .
6 the separate insertion of a single page into a book either during or after binding by pasting one edge .
7 I confess to finding some of his Freudian speculations , unleavened as they are by the faintest suspicion of humour , hard to follow , in the sense that I am unsure what would count either for or against them .
8 There was also one further desk at the front , set just below the Inspector , where ‘ witnesses , gave evidence either for or against the proposal .
9 People soon took sides either for or against what came to be known as the Council 's ‘ green belt ’ or ‘ anti-dispersal ’ policy .
10 Viewers tended to be either for or against the main thrust of its argument ; few were able to take a neutral stance and discussions were often quite heated between students and their teachers , academics and party members .
11 A powerful Japan could work either for or against South Korea ; so long as the United States exercised a controlling influence over Japan , it would work for rather than against South Korea .
12 This conflict arises because any directives towards making nationalized industries more fully accountable would , on the one hand , lead to the release of commercially confidential information that would be readily available to private sector competitors , and , on the other hand , would provide for potential political exploitation by those either for or against the concept of nationalization .
13 But does anyone have any strong feelings either for or against changing the time , and for or against nine thirty .
14 There is varied evidence that suggests that major geographical moves , either between or within countries , not only have a disruptive effect on people 's lives , but may produce lasting changes .
15 Each situation under which law is being used either against or by the peace movement will have to be analysed extensively by looking at the specific arena and the specific legal language spoken .
16 A pronunciation is addressed either with or without the mediation of the semantic system — our store of word meanings .
17 The winding-sheet with its top- and bottom-knots had been in steady decline during the last quarter of the seventeenth century , its place being taken by the open-backed long-sleeved shift with draw-strings at wrist and neck , either with or without an integral hood .
18 Various Rat-1-derived cell lines were transferred into medium containing 0.05% fetal calf serum either with or without 2μM β -oestradiol and observed after 48h .
19 Rat-1 cells expressing either wild-type c-Myc-ER or the defective c-Myc mutant 106–143 fused to the human oestrogen receptor , and either with or without Bcl-2 , were growth-arrested by culture in 0.05% fetal calf serum ( FCS ) for 48h .
20 Beta has a B8-type spectrum , and is about 100 times as luminous as the Sun ; it is often said to be the only naked-eye star which is greenish in colour , though I have never noted this either with or without optical aid , and to me Beta always looks white .
21 ‘ … a contract of sale may be made in writing ( either with or without seal ) , or by word of mouth , or partly in writing and partly by word of mouth , or may be implied from the conduct of the parties . ’
22 Section 20 reads in part : [ w ] hosover shall unlawfully and maliciously wound or inflict any grievous bodily harm upon any person , either with or without any weapon or instrument shall be guilty …
23 The words in s.20 " either with or without any weapon " are pleonastic .
24 In this case it can include a requirement in the order that he comply with the supervisor 's directions to attend at a specified place to participate in specified activities either with or without the child ( para 3(1) ( c ) ( 2 ) ) .
25 The modern position regarding the formalities attendant with the SGA 1979 is encapsulated in s4(1) of the Act which states : 4 – ( 1 ) Subject to this and any other Act , a contract of sale may be made in writing ( either with or without seal ) , or by word of mouth , or partly in writing and partly by word of mouth , or may be implied from the conduct of the parties .
26 The Conference decided " that the leaders of the next Labour Government and the Parliamentary Labour Party be instructed by the National Conference that , on assuming office , either with or without power , definite Socialist legislation must be immediately promulgated , and the Party shall stand or fall in the House of Commons on the principles in which it has faith " .
27 To verify that the binding results obtained for I9X reflect the situation with intact Vmw175 , nuclear extracts from HeLa cells , transfected either with or without plasmid p175 ( 30 ) were also incubated with the same probes as above .
28 Callinicos ' conclusion to these arguments is that despite their efforts , built around a claimed contrast of the postmodern either with or within Modernism , these authors have produced only ‘ mutually and often internally inconsistent accounts ’ of the ‘ postmodern ’ , manifesting an ‘ inability to come up with a plausible and coherent account of its distinguishing characteristics ’ ( p. 28 ) .
29 After the death of her mother in 1691 Celia moved to London to live either with or near her sister 's family .
30 The li is not obeyed or defied like a law , one goes either with or against the grain of it , as in chopping wood .
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