Example sentences of "[noun sg] either to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great majority of voters give their first vote either to the CDU/CSU or to the SPD in much the same way as most British voters give their only vote to the Conservatives or Labour : that is where their basic loyalty lies . |
| 2 | The order is in the opinion of the Secretary of State such as to give effect either to the Director 's proposals or to his proposal as modified by the Advisory Committee ; and |
| 3 | The first was that she was afraid that she might have an attack while pregnant and would cause some harm either to herself or to the unborn child . |
| 4 | ‘ Withdrawal ’ means removal from the library stock either to be thrown away ( discarding ) or donated to another library . |
| 5 | He granted an injunction restraining the defendant from using and/or disclosing confidential information but qualified it so that it did not apply to communications made by the defendant either to FIMBRA or the Inland Revenue in respect of the matters identified in the defence . |
| 6 | Will the Minister assure the House that empty houses will be handed over to local councils or housing associations for rent either to redundant service men or to others ? |
| 7 | In such circumstances , the offence of affray is a useful alternative either to one of the offences against the person , or some minor public order offence . |
| 8 | It is certainly true that states have in the past used methods and means of warfare not outlawed by any specific prohibition although running counter to general principles , and they have sought to justify this by reference either to the principle of reprisal or that of military effectiveness . |
| 9 | In general , this type of problem indicates that some modification either to the program itself , or in the notes that communicate how to control it , will be needed . |
| 10 | But although Darwinian natural selection seems plainly to deny primacy either to egoism or to altruism , it is interesting to notice that nearly everyone has preconceptions which hinder him from coming fully to terms with the evidence . |
| 11 | Enquiries related to redundant churches , and especially their adaptation , should be addressed in the first place either to the secretary of the Redundant Churches Uses Committee of the Diocese ( see diocesan handbook ) or to the Secretary of the Advisory Board for Redundant Churches of the Church Commissioners . |
| 12 | To be sent to one of these ‘ special ’ hospitals you must be seen as a danger either to others or yourself . |
| 13 | Petre paid little attention either to the Irish dimension of Catholic relief or to the changing constituency of English Catholicism . |
| 14 | Design is about the way a product not only looks , but also functions , and for anybody in manufacturing industry or retailing to say they do n't take an interest in it would be perfectly ludicrous , because at the end of the day it is design that causes a product either to be successful or unsuccessful . |
| 15 | Dr R.B. Smith adopts this criterion in his study of West Riding society in the 1530s , but for the 1520s , albeit the genuinely hard cases ( including one assessment as low as £1 per annum ) were few and far between , men of £5 or more per annum tended on the whole either to be designated gentlemen or else can be linked with gentry families . |
| 16 | But Romania transferred the water either to Israel or India , prompting a formal protest from Oslo in May last year . |
| 17 | Where the water is heated by pumped circulation operating in conjunction with a central heating system , the valve may be a three-way one which will divert the water either to the hot water cylinder or to the central heating radiators or , sometimes , to both see Chapter 11 . |
| 18 | Clearwell Castle , Gloucestershire ( c .1728 ) is a unique building , with no affinity either to the contemporary medievalizing modes of Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor [ qq.v. ] or to the subsequent rococo Gothic of William Kent [ q.v. ] ; while Inveraray Castle , by contrast , was to be another immensely influential creation , standing at the head of a whole series of castle-style houses throughout the eighteenth century . |
| 19 | Through Mambo Leo and its other newspapers , this government also aimed to present British news and the British way of life to the people of the country , in particular to those without access either to the British press or the BBC . |
| 20 | Children needing extra help have a conductor either to themselves or shared between two . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , hermeneutics is not committed in advance either to understanding rules in terms of actions or to understanding actions in terms of rules . |
| 22 | It is to be observed that a proceeding under section 7(5) in no way precludes a defendant who is remanded in custody from making an application for bail either to the justices , or to the Crown Court , or to a judge in chambers , whichever tribunal is appropriate . |
| 23 | Despite such a use of power , the result was far from extravagant to behold : ‘ It is a structure of considerable dimensions , auguring the residence of nobility , but at the same time laying no claim either to grandeur or antiquity … the park is pleasingly undulated ’ . |
| 24 | On the other hand , a letter , written by Avitus of Vienne , on the occasion of the king 's baptism , ascribes no role either to the queen or to the outcome of a battle , but sees Clovis 's decision to become a catholic as the personal choice of an intelligent monarch . |
| 25 | I therefore suggest that all possible steps are taken to dispose soonest of all surrendered personnel in this area either to Italy or their homes whichever may be the policy . " |
| 26 | Pointing out the growing difficulty in policing the densely populated Gaza Strip , and stressing that , unlike the West Bank , Jews could find few meaningful historical links with Gaza , the plan advocated the handing over of the area either to the UN or to a governing body of Palestinians . |
| 27 | So over-blessed a nature must bring a man either to a throne or a grave before ever he lived to be old . |
| 28 | They used a saline solution as the test flavour and gave different groups of subjects pre-exposure either to saline itself or to some other flavour or flavours . |
| 29 | Seniority as we have seen has less to do with age per se than promotion either to a higher position or within a grade . |
| 30 | There is however one kind of inclination which may legitimately be classed as inherently egoistic or altruistic , the biological drive either to self-preservation or to preservation of offspring or others . |