Example sentences of "[noun sg] nor " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , it has been held that decisions of the City Panel on Takeovers and Mergers , which was set up neither by statute nor contract but simply by informal agreement , are subject to judicial review ; so are decisions of the Advertising Standards Authority and of the Code of Practice Committee of the British Pharmaceutical Industry . |
| 2 | Such conventions are prescribed neither by statute nor by judicial interpretation , so one must study instead scholarly interpretations of political behaviour and practice . |
| 3 | I had neither intention nor wish to escape . |
| 4 | Whatever the law might hold , no one could argue that the methods used by Esmail and Everington amounted to fraud , in so far as they had neither the intention nor the potential to gain an advantage . |
| 5 | This she displayed at her belt , though she had neither the intention nor the resource to use it . |
| 6 | By virtue of Article iv Rule 5(E) of the Hague-Visby Rules : ‘ Neither the carrier nor the ship shall be entitled to the benefit of the limitation of liability provided for in this paragraph if it is proved that the damage resulted from an act or omission of the carrier done with intent to cause damage or recklessly and with knowledge that damage would probably result . ’ |
| 7 | The boat 's on its side in the water and you 're nowhere to be seen but in fact it 's all quite straightforward , neither the boat nor you can sink and it 's simply a question of pulling the boat back upright again and carrying on sailing . |
| 8 | The solicitor names neither your benefactor nor his client , nor does he explain why you should be the beneficiary . |
| 9 | This being so it is not surprising that being a project leader is not a universal ambition nor a job for which all are suited . |
| 10 | Neither industry nor farming can absorb the population of working age . |
| 11 | But neither industry nor BT can afford to give free training so the bill must be paid by a foreign government or the International Telecommunication Union , which is based in Switzerland . |
| 12 | There was no guarantee that it would lead to a new deal for the industry nor that , even as a compromise , it would hold against the tensions of a situation in which one side at least seemed determined to continue on a collision course . |
| 13 | Curiously enough , the same MPs who opposed the building of barracks never objected to the press-gang nor to the occasional use of conscription to keep the army up to strength . |
| 14 | And indeed Ungar found that his active component was neither a protein nor a nucleic acid but a peptide — a generic name given to a short sequence of linked amino acids anything up to fifteen or twenty units long and administered by injection , so avoiding the digestive barrier offered by the gut . |
| 15 | Never a break nor a blemish ! ’ |
| 16 | In any event , membership of an international organisation does not amount to recognition nor does a vote on credentials and representation issues : see Warbrick , 30 I.C.L.Q. , 568 , 583 citing 1950 UN Doc S/1466 . |
| 17 | Children of welfare-dependent single-parent families have neither a monopoly on juvenile crime nor a disdain for conventional values . |
| 18 | Fourthly , neither death due to stroke nor cardiac death would be reduced . |
| 19 | Morrissey fronts a youthful revolution which is n't locked in tribal chant nor the blank idealism of the sixties . |
| 20 | We would like to make it clear that this delay was not caused by any default on the part of the defendant who is charged with their murder nor by his legal advisers . |
| 21 | By the time the case came to court , General Amin was neither available as a witness nor regarded as a person worthy of belief . |
| 22 | Contrary to rumour , hair loss is n't simply a hereditary condition nor is it confined to men . |
| 23 | And a decade later , when the term ‘ has-been ’ seemed almost an understatement , she not only gratefully accepted but gleefully flung herself into the high camp , Low Gothic shenanigans of Robert Aldrich 's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane ? ( 1962 ) , in which , with a gloating relish that neither her baby-doll fright wig nor her impenetrable pancake make-up could conceal , she set about tormenting her immemorial screen rival and alter ego ( or egoist ) , Joan Crawford . |
| 24 | Neither Marxism Today , Socialist Review nor Tribune had anything at all to say about the programme . |
| 25 | The liberal compromises : " Let's prune , so that we lose neither the old trunk nor the new branches " . |
| 26 | This is neither brash , spotty punk nor controlled smoothly executed musicianship but a careful balance which utilises the expertise of the latter and loses none of the instantaneous excitement of the former . |
| 27 | They claim they are neither punk nor heavy metal , but can change tack from rock n' roll to thrash at the drop of a hat . |
| 28 | Neither cultural Protestantism nor reverence before history could tell him what to preach in Safenwil , Sunday by Sunday , while the inheritors of Christian civilisation tore the world apart in the name of their enlightened values . |
| 29 | Although Sir Leon 's approach will be welcomed by the nationalist-minded rightwing in the Federal Republic , it is unlikely to be endorsed by many ministers in the present Bonn coalition nor by opposition parties . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't mind being criticised for my football nor indeed do the other players but personal abuse is something else . |