Example sentences of "nor [be] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Mandelson , the Labour Party 's director of communications , said yesterday : ‘ Mr Kinnock neither has the Prime Minister 's folie de grandeur nor is he running scared of the British people . |
| 2 | Nor is he part of any of the Liberal Democratic party 's main factions ; instead , he runs his own small ‘ study group ’ . |
| 3 | A servant of the Crown is not himself liable for contracts made by him on behalf of the Crown , nor is he liable as a principal for the acts or defaults of his subordinates unless expressly authorized or subsequently ratified by him . |
| 4 | Nor is he an old-fashioned , bookish poet with antiquarian tendencies like Tennyson . |
| 5 | ‘ Towards his household he is not threatening nor is he contemptuous of counsel when offered , nor vindictive when searching out a fault . |
| 6 | He wears his native costume , is neither extravagant or frivolous in his clothing , nor is he ever poorly dressed . |
| 7 | The guide is not always a librarian , nor is he always well-prepared . |
| 8 | In addition , he has never been accustomed to wealth , nor is he interested in making vast sums of money playing league . |
| 9 | Nor is he interested in hurting people , though you suspect he could if he put his mind to it — and the sword is only used in the artistic non-combat part of the competition . |
| 10 | When speaker A in extract ( 1 ) says ‘ Yes , it 's an enormous problem ’ , speaker B does not have trouble understanding the reference of it even though this is not spelt out ; nor is he perplexed by the use of yes followed by a totally different point . |
| 11 | Nor is he a particularly smart lyricist ; just an Alan Bennett fan who got lucky . |
| 12 | Eloff is no longer a spring chicken — nor is he in control of Northern Transvaal . |
| 13 | There is no other God than this , nor is he God in any other way than he here makes known . |
| 14 | Nor is he writing an Indian Comédie humaine . |
| 15 | He is n't a sulker , nor is he avaricious . |
| 16 | Nor is he chummy ; George is what the jury expects of a barrister : grave , a little pompous , a touch dramatic . |
| 17 | He is not a flamboyant man , nor is he much of a social butterfly except by comparison with the rest of his senior colleagues who tend to keep to their own counsel and lives in Barnes . |
| 18 | Nor is he happy for his skills to be compared with those of a stand-up comic despite his highly persuasive double act with Ken Dodd , who later presented him with his own tickling stick . |
| 19 | Nor is he paranoic about the union trying to undermine his position or score " victories " over him . |
| 20 | Nor is he entitled to examine proceedings in Parliament in order to show that the appellants by fraudulently misleading Parliament caused him loss . |
| 21 | Nor is he bound to gamble on the market changing in his favour . |
| 22 | Nor is he . |
| 23 | ‘ He is not — nor is he likely to be as far as I can make out — although Matt dropped a hint that there had been someone at one stage . |
| 24 | Nor is he likely to wind up the debate as I understand that the Under-Secretary of State , the hon. Member for Darlington ( Mr. Fallon ) , or some other English Minister will do so . |
| 25 | ‘ Nor is he the kind to come north at all without a very sure chance of success . |
| 26 | Mr X will argue that he has not received and nor is he entitled to receive any capital sum , namely a loan or a repayment of a loan . |
| 27 | Yet despite his victories , Torrance is not eligible to play in the US Open next week , nor is he exempt for next month 's British Open at Sandwich . |
| 28 | Nor is he in Kirkwall , it appears . |
| 29 | But nor 's he . |
| 30 | Nor was he able to believe in the religion of his community . |