Example sentences of "nor can [pron] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 However , as a practical scheme this is infeasible , since consumers have no direct incentive to reveal their benefit schedules , nor can they easily be encouraged to do so ( Green and Laffont , 1979 ) .
2 Nor can we easily resolve this methodological problem by appealing to any clear theoretical definition of semantic equivalence based on formal syntactic relations between sentences , since even within generative syntax this is a highly unstable and controversial area of linguistic theory .
3 Nor can we fundamentally question the rules of logic , for only when we assume them can we ask a question at all .
4 Nor can we simply wait for an effect to go away .
5 [ Nor can we apparently " substitute 2 for x " since the result , namely
6 Nor can one now easily separate moral , social , and political issues .
7 Nor can he always rely on the help of those who in any other industry or service you might expect to be on his side .
8 Nor can she merely learn a mechanical set of techniques .
9 Housewives can not be accused of ‘ doing nothing all day ’ ; nor can it legitimately be said that their only ‘ work ’ is ‘ creative ’ and thus intrinsically pleasurable .
10 It seems that the situation we are witnessing is neither the effect of a biological underpinning of sex roles , nor can it simply be seen as the persistence of institutional inequalities .
11 A gesture can not be regarded as the expression of an individual , as his or her creation ( because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture , belonging to nobody else ) , nor can it even be regarded as that person 's instrument ; on the contrary , it is gestures that use us as their instruments , as their bearers and incarnations .
12 It does not call for explicit statements of the objectives of expenditure in a way that would enable a Minister 's plans to be tested against general government strategy : nor can it regularly embody detailed analysis of existing programmes and of major policy options on them .
13 Nor can it permanently motivate .
14 Nor can it ever be .
15 It is in my mind that this last outrage can not be allowed to pass , nor can I longer leave the handling of the affair to Prince Henry or his advisers .
16 Nor can I ever lose sight of that flood of tears which then poured from his eyes , when reluctant nature was constrained to resign a beloved child to the cold arms of death .
17 I ca n't ever remember being more than healthily hungry , nor can I ever remember coming home from school or play when my mother was not there to welcome us .
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