Example sentences of "[to-vb] either [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too little is known about Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi to enable one to decide what is meant by the title , however , and there is no other evidence to indicate either that he held an official post or , if so , that it was anything other than an ad hominem appointment . |
| 2 | As the future funding of the project is so uncertain and vague , are we to assume either that there is a private understanding between British Rail and the Government that the Government will pay the capital cost , or that the capital cost will be taken from other British Rail capital investment programmes , such as rail electrification ? |
| 3 | This is not to assume either that there has never been pressure within the universities for change or that the state is necessarily hostile to the collegiate model . |
| 4 | 7.9.2 to procure either that the interest of the Tenant and any undertenant and its or their mortgagees are noted or indorsed on the policy or that the insurers issue a waiver of subrogation rights as regards the Tenant any undertenant and its or their mortgagees |
| 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 | With intelligent programming , the computer should have been able to recognise either that this particular customer needed an overdraft or that he has probably just become redundant and that mortgage repayment might soon present a problem . |
| 7 | Parents seem to believe either that the less said the better or that the reasons are obvious and do not need explaining . |
| 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 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 . |
| 10 | For instance , it is compatible with the results of all actual and possible measurements to hold either that the universe is of a fixed size or that it is expanding at a constant rate . |
| 11 | People seem to think either that a burglary wo n't happen to them , or that there 's nothing they can do to stop a really determined thief . |
| 12 | I would stake my life on it , ’ will not be able to claim either that it was a mere trader 's puff or that it was a mere statement of opinion . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | To say either that someone acts authoritatively or that someone is responsible for his actions may depend upon the possibility of ascribing mental states or capacities but neither is merely a shorthand way of ascribing them . |
| 15 | To say that it does not matter is to say either that all the masculine imagery is not inspired , is merely human in origin , or else that , though inspired , it is quite arbitrary and unessential . |
| 16 | Therefore one would have to say either that the power elite is a mere statistical phenomenon , a category , an aggregate of disparate individuals who happen to share some socially relevant resources , or that it is united by its objective interest . |
| 17 | The problem is , however , that it is of little help in producing a list of user needs : the temptation would be to say either that everyone requires the same information or that everyone requires different information ; the former would make the exercise redundant and the latter would make it impossible to handle . |
| 18 | To crown it all , I now read in my newspaper that we are living in ‘ the post-feminist era ’ which I take to mean either that the battle is won — a view informed by the same kind of stupidity which once encouraged Macmillan to proclaim ‘ we 're all middle-class now ’ — or that feminism is a spent force and has slipped back into obscurity for another sixty years of oblivion . |
| 19 | The glass is put into their mouths as they whirl around in the shadows and lights of the torches and they chew and swallow it down — showing it in their mouths — putting out their tongues afterwards to prove either that the tongue is not cut or that the mouth is empty . |
| 20 | Finally , the requirement that a bystander should be terrified was qualified where the offence occurred in public , so that it was not necessary to prove either that a bystander was actually terrified , or even present , or even that a bystander was even likely to be present . |
| 21 | Entrants were henceforth required to prove either that they had enough currency for a temporary stay , or a visa for another country . |
| 22 | Modern interpretation of elite theories seek to show either that key policy offices are held by people from a narrow spectrum of social origins , or that a limited number of people , characterized by close links with one another , dominate decision-making roles . |
| 23 | Even where there is no under-value to Newco in its acquisition of Target , the managers need to show either that they have paid full value for their shares in Newco , or that any benefit to them does not derive from their office or employment . |