Example sentences of "either that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The history of forms in art has had some distinguished advocates , some of whom have been concerned with the transformation over time of one form to another ; others have been more attracted to problems of values , arguing either that styles in art change and decay , or that in a particular period there is an artistic will to produce work in a style of its own . |
| 2 | No , he wrote , because Diana herself does not acknowledge either that she has been waiting all her life for him to appear . |
| 3 | If a work is bigger than a man , he wrote , it can mean either that it is trying to surpass man or that it is not afraid of being looked at . |
| 4 | One can then choose to say either that it constitutes the difference by virtue of having a particular internal ‘ feel ’ associated with it , or that it is itself the difference , simpliciter . |
| 5 | Moreover , when we consider the courses that Pound was led into by his conviction of the civic responsibility of the man of letters — his money pamphlets of the 1930s , his desperate visit home in 1938 to keep the USA out of war with Italy , particularly his wartime broadcasts over Rome radio — we have some right to conclude either that the artist has no civic responsibility at all , or else that that responsibility can safely be discharged only in his art and nowhere else . |
| 6 | Conveyancing documents should include a certificate by the purchaser saying either that he had been fully advised by a wholly independent practitioner or that he had declined such advice — and the certificate should contain a prominent ‘ health warning ’ against declining to take it . |
| 7 | This ‘ return to the sources ’ discovers either that such primitive celebrations are entirely divorced from modern sexuality , or that they always concealed a deathly horror . |
| 8 | To get round this uncomfortable fact Fforde would have to argue either that all collectivist legislation emanated from governments of the left , or that all Conservative governments before 1979 were in some way not truly Conservative . |
| 9 | It is , I decide , not my fault either that I am a human being who does not want to be eaten alive . |
| 10 | We must assume either that Warnie 's memory exaggerated the virulence of her hostility to Jack 's conversion , or that there was some particular thing about it which affected her more than anyone else . |
| 11 | In the end , and in spite of prolonged speculation to the contrary , there was never much doubt either that England would be seeded or that they would begin the World Cup in Cagliari . |
| 12 | In the end , and in spite of prolonged speculation to the contrary , there was never much doubt either that England would be seeded or that they would begin the World Cup in Cagliari . |
| 13 | He had n't expected either that the Mess would be in a château , that the furniture would be impressively of its period — no worn armchairs or bits of junk in a state of collapse from subalterns ' games , as so often to be found in the messes of his experience , or indeed that his welcome would be so unaffectedly cordial . |
| 14 | Washington was Ladbrooke , but it was also , in the same list , Cleveland and Canada : the multiplication of codes suggesting either that they were readily broken , or that people were changing them more or less as they fancied . |
| 15 | We are not claiming either that He has somehow implanted in us a sixth sense that gives us certainty He exists whilst our other five senses provide no such assurance . |
| 16 | They may reach different conclusions , but they do not pre-empt the discussion by claiming either that one side is talking nonsense or that the other side is talking from a position of impossible disadvantage through lack of faith . |
| 17 | Throughout March and April the newspapers carried a plethora of stories suggesting either that there would be a further challenge to Mrs Thatcher when the next leadership election fell due in November , or that there would be strong pressure on her to announce her retirement before then . |
| 18 | It is possible to argue either that the community charge has failed its first test as a device to improve the accountability of local government or that it has not really been tested at all . |
| 19 | After all , just look round any bar and you 'll see that everybody there , myself included ( you too if it 's your kind of bar ) , has in their time been both The Boy and The Older Man , both Banker and Domestic , Ingenue and Other Woman , booted Prince and stirrup-holding Groom — but I do n't mean either that you should have complete license to make him look just how you wish ; I do n't want to think of anyone hearing this story and grinning and thinking of Boy as some permanently , conveniently smiling blue-eyed blonde , because he was not that in any way and that is not what he meant to us . |
| 20 | Any hollows or unevenness indicate either that they have been badly laid or have been affected by subsidence . |
| 21 | In subsequent criminal proceedings , the High Court held that the police had a power to enter and remain on private property , against the wishes of the occupier , if they reasonably apprehended either that the commission of an offence was ‘ imminent or likely ’ or that any breach of the peace was likely to occur . |
| 22 | ( Doane 1984 , p. 6 ) But this does not mean either that film-viewers are not also active readers of film who can produce their own meanings , or that identification with mainstream fiction film characters means unconditional surrender to bourgeois ideology . |
| 23 | This is partly because of their ephemeral nature and partly because disclosure would often reveal either that very sensitive subjects were under consideration or that we had something in train about which we were not ready to make an announcement . |
| 24 | To do this he must assure himself that , on the day he is nominated as a candidate , he is 21 years of age or over , a British subject or a citizen of the Irish Republic and either that his name is on the register of electors in the local government area for which he intends to stand as a candidate , or that he has resided in the area ( or , in the case of a parish or community , within three miles of the area ) for a period of one year , or that he has occupied as owner or tenant land in the area for one year , or that his principal or only place of work has been in the area for one year . |
| 25 | It should not be forgotten either that in this so-called era of peace , there are wars going on in many parts of the world which means that some people are living in an unsafe environment and in constant danger . |
| 26 | Most of them are directed at girl readers , the assumption seeming to be either that boys have no adolescent problems or that they read only ‘ action ’ books . |
| 27 | These are all responses which were highly suitable in prehistoric times when events required either that you ran away as fast as you could or that you had a surge of energy to help you fight your way out of a difficult situation as ferociously as possible ( fight or flight behaviour ) . |
| 28 | The House of Lords did not decide either that it was , or that it was not . |
| 29 | I always have a premonition that something will go wrong : either that the plane will blow up or crash . |
| 30 | The authorities ca n't decide which explanation they prefer ; either that the printing equipment is faulty , or that the duplicates are replacements for faulty notes that should have been destroyed . |