Example sentences of "either [vb pp] [conj] [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 By last night most airports had either reopened or were scheduled to reopen .
2 The reassertion of the state/civil society opposition is documented by the fact that all of the above names either quit or were excluded from the Akademie in 1933 .
3 The small number of us who were attached to the building itself either retired or were offered work elsewhere with the authority .
4 An estimated 2,000,000 people either fled or were evacuated from the coastal regions in advance of the hurricane .
5 It brought closer Home Office control and local authority subsidy to reformatories for children for whom the first resort of probation had either failed or was thought inappropriate .
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