Example sentences of "nor [vb mod] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Camden writing in the late sixteenth century states they ‘ destroyed everything with fire and sword : Nor could it ever after recover its ancient dignity ’ . |
| 2 | Paley begins Natural Theology with a famous passage : In crossing a heath , suppose I pitched my foot against a stone , and were asked how the stone came to be there ; I might possibly answer , that , for anything I knew to the contrary , it had lain there for ever : nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer . |
| 3 | The chain had not been replaced , nor would it ever be , and warm , fresh blankets covered her . |
| 4 | Nor will it immediately persuade England 's selectors to extend Gooch 's reign as captain beyond the third Ashes Test . |
| 5 | But he must be all too aware that it wo n't impress the Soviet citizens facing economic crisis , and waiting in the food queues , nor will it immediately resolve the ethnic problems which beset him . |
| 6 | Neither is it , nor will it ever be , affected by the advances of human knowledge on whatever frontier , for further consideration of the position in these last highly scientific decades of the twentieth century , reveals that the need for a ‘ god-dominated ’ religion not only remains but has become almost desperate . |
| 7 | It will not apply to tribunals which have an internal hierarchy , the top of which can impose a uniform meaning , nor will it necessarily apply where there is only one tribunal in an area . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Nor can it permanently motivate . |
| 13 | Nor can it ever be . |