Example sentences of "nor [modal v] it [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The content of an advertisement should not , therefore , contain anything offensive to particular groups in society ; nor should it contain information or suggestions which are misleading . |
| 2 | Nor should it prevent the Library Association exercisng some influence on local government and other organizations disposed to interfere with the right of access to legally permissible literature ; nor should it prevent the Library Association exerting some influence on national government which is disposed to censor . |
| 3 | Nor should it prevent the Library Association exercisng some influence on local government and other organizations disposed to interfere with the right of access to legally permissible literature ; nor should it prevent the Library Association exerting some influence on national government which is disposed to censor . |
| 4 | He added : ‘ Nor should it matter if there are , say , four Indians , three Englishmen or four West Indians picked for the panel . |
| 5 | Novell has no compelling reason ( nor should it have ) to keep on paying for the fuel that burns in the Unix flame . |
| 6 | If the House was worried , the government could not refuse a full explanation nor could it return to its other business till members were satisfied . |
| 7 | Nevertheless the Church could not preserve men 's minds from modern heresy ; it failed in the campaign to exclude ‘ dangerous ’ books nor could it prevent the influence of contacts established by Aranda and others with the French intellectuals . |
| 8 | Nor could it afford indefinitely to be without a direct , local link with Asmar 's network , which was still using the agency 's video equipment to keep track of the hostages in Beirut as well as monitoring the activities of DEA/CIA operatives . |
| 9 | Yet the above comparison has never worked , nor could it have been expected to . |
| 10 | Nor could it have happened on such a scale had the banks ' powers of credit-creation been constrained by the prudential rules governing national financial structures . |
| 11 | Nor could it have occurred at a worse time . |
| 12 | Marx , however , realized that the need to make a living could never directly explain what human beings do , nor could it account for the complexity of human history itself . |
| 13 | However , the formation of unisons is not always satisfactory or possible ( for example , in Example 140 above each voice could hardly be made to play the same unison D , for contrapuntal reasons , nor could it sound completely satisfactory ) . |
| 14 | But this technique was not considered very reliable , nor could it provide other important data on the population , such as its sex distribution . |
| 15 | Nor could it sue in respect of a charge of corruption , for a corporation can not be guilty of corruption , although the individuals composing it may . |
| 16 | Nor could it sue in respect of a charge of corruption , for a corporation can not be guilty of corruption , although the individuals composing it may . |
| 17 | It may also not have been the least of Ælfheah 's attractions to the people of London , heavily taxed in 1018 , that he was murdered for being unable or unwilling to give money to the Danes ; nor need it have made Cnut 's position any easier that King Æthelred , too , lay buried in St Paul 's . |
| 18 | Nor need it have been completely unexpected , for the original appointment of a German , whom Cnut had possibly brought from Denmark , could , though need not , imply that he was concerned from the start about the trustworthiness of the Ramsey abbot . |
| 19 | Nor would it appear that these awful prophecies from her Majesty 's Chief Inspector were calculated to depress the spirits of the royal household . |
| 20 | When he was consecrated , however , Cranmer made a public protestation that any oath which he took acknowledging the authority of the Pope was not intended to be binding if it were against the law of God or the King 's prerogatives , nor would it bind him to be less free in reformation of the Church . |
| 21 | Nor would it grow any lighter . |
| 22 | Merrill could n't imagine quite how this would come about ; nor would it bring Elise back , she thought sadly . |
| 23 | Nor would it do to come to too many conclusions on the evidence of yesterday 's romp in the sun on a well-grassed but hard pitch . |
| 24 | At the back of my mind was a small , warning voice , telling me it was ridiculous to go on with this , that I could n't change Nonni 's mind , nor would it alter anything if I could . |
| 25 | The Christian view of time directed to the future , as presented by St Augustine , differed from the ideas of time current in Classical antiquity in that it was neither cyclic nor would it continue indefinitely without anything essentially new occurring . |
| 26 | It would certainly not seem sensible to teach these skills in a context which did not allow children to put them to use immediately , nor would it seem sensible to teach them through sets of exercises independent of any meaningful content area . |
| 27 | Nor would it come as a total shock to discover that the world pulls out of the next slump the same way it did out of the last one , with a catastrophic world war . ’ |
| 28 | Nor would it have been constitutionally possible for me to have become head of the Church of England . ’ |
| 29 | Such was the distortion that the muzzle would no longer accept round shot ; nor would it have accepted canister had not Harry had the idea of tapping the canisters and using silk stockings to contain the iron balls . |
| 30 | Nor would it have been true , for I greatly feared death , suspecting myself to be damned . |