Example sentences of "nor [was/were] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor was it properly explained to the modern British public , any more than it was in 1925 , why the ‘ discipline ’ could not be imposed direct on the economy without it being necessary to cling to another country 's shirt tails to do so . |
| 2 | Nor was it particularly efficient , even by the elastic standards of that age . |
| 3 | Hence it is not always true that the natural way of classifying a set of objects is hierarchical ; nor was it immediately obvious that this is the best way of classifying living things . |
| 4 | Nor was it well enough coordinated to give the Ministry of Internal Affairs a clear run . |
| 5 | The institutional , legal and procedural definition of convocation had not been clear in 1307 nor was it finally resolved by 1327 : the clergy were struggling to free themselves from the enveloping quicksand of parliament , the king 's high court , and to reach the firm ground of an autonomous clerical assembly , no part of the king 's court ( with all that that implied ) and free from the intimidating presence , or intrusion , of those royal councillors who were laymen . |
| 6 | Nor was it generally known that some newspapers had declined to accept such advertising on ethical grounds . |
| 7 | The house itself-'not a palace , nor a castle , nor was it hardly to be called a mansion' — is ‘ pretty ’ ( Trollope 's highest term of praise ) , unpretentious , and comfortable . |
| 8 | It was not generally available , nor was it necessarily permanent . |
| 9 | From Otto 's time on the ambition to be crowned emperor by the pope was an inevitable ambition for all German kings until long after the end of our period ; nor was it ever forgotten that this was in imitation of Charles . |
| 10 | Nothing is entirely ‘ secret ’ nor was it ever intended to be so . |
| 11 | It was not enough to pull America out of recession nor was it enough to save George Bush from defeat . |
| 12 | As for the historical place — technically , says Balboa 's biographer , the peak was not in Darién , nor was it actually a peak . |
| 13 | Arthur de la Mare of the British Foreign Office remarked that one of the most noteworthy features of the broadcast by Hugh Borton and Edwin Martin was Borton 's admission that the failure of the Joint Commission was not entirely an American responsibility , ‘ nor was it entirely the Russians ’ . |
| 14 | Nor was it too friendly , a fact duly noted by the flag-waving touch judge . |
| 15 | Nor was it only Norway that shunned him : the invading Germans could n't stand him either . |
| 16 | Nor was it only characters in novels who were afflicted by the malaise . |
| 17 | Nor was it only their tenants who were resentful , but they also had to face envious glances at their lands from the laity , some of whom at any rate seem to have considered them suitable prey . |
| 18 | Nor was it only such ‘ new men ’ who devoted war gains to building . |
| 19 | Nor was it only on the great party issues of the day that Whig–Tory divisions emerged in the House ; the same was true even on more mundane matters , where no great issue of party principle was at stake . |
| 20 | Nor was it much affected by phylogenetic relationships . |
| 21 | Nor was it much consolation to the church that the extension of prohibitions was less the result of deliberate crown policy ( though the king certainly assisted by the provision of new writs ) than of popular demand among suitors , often clergy litigating against clergy . |
| 22 | Nor was it much higher among the clergy who found themselves not only heavily taxed without the discretionary right of refusal which they enjoyed in respect of royal taxes , but also threatened with excommunication and ecclesiastical penalties for non-compliance . |
| 23 | Nor was it merely a triumph for selfish or cynical British statesmen , indifferent to the fate of far-off peoples or calculating that Hitler might be launched into war against Soviet Russia . |
| 24 | Nor was it always clear on what basis the Principal Education Officer and Chief Inspector on occasions referred back the proposals of the project team . |
| 25 | In some schools , the library committee did not meet as frequently as it might have ; nor was it always as open and participatory as might have been hoped , and in at least one school the committee was subverted and eventually dissolved by senior staff . |
| 26 | Nor was it always practical or effective to talk to children individually . |
| 27 | Nor was it mainly caused by the increasing importance of symphony and sonata , a field in which such fine musicians as Boccherini and Clementi could hardly rival their Germanic contemporaries . |