Example sentences of "nor [modal v] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor must the period of time in question be continuous . |
| 2 | the chosen site must not interfere with or reduce the value of scenic and recreation areas , nor must the habitats of rare or otherwise important plant and animal species be disturbed ; |
| 3 | The argument , then , is that the causing of death by bad driving should not be regarded as a significant aggravating factor , but nor should the non-causing of death or injury be regarded as a significant mitigating factor . |
| 4 | Herron 's pop collages should not be missed , nor should the opportunity to be guided by computers through his latest projects . |
| 5 | Nor should the similarities in the broader dimensions of the problem of youth employment escape our attention . |
| 6 | Nor should the bureaucratization of society as a whole be confused with the emergence of the bureaucracy as a ruling class . |
| 7 | Nor could the release of the sex offender , Peter Pickering , in the Mental Health Review Tribunal case which I mentioned earlier . |
| 8 | Nor could the citizens of Northern Ireland claim that the agreement gives them a legal right ( although possibly a moral or political right ) to a referendum before the British Parliament passed pertinent legislation . |
| 9 | No reform could of itself guarantee immediate and lasting prosperity for individual farmers , nor would the pattern of landholding established by the reform necessarily last . |
| 10 | Extemporised hate would not be covered , nor would the tragedy of loss . |
| 11 | Nor would the suggestion of a derivational link to a noun hold good for an associative use of young rather common in advertisements : ( 14 ) the young place to go young clothes the young thing to do Another thing to emphasize is that what we are considering does not depend on a change of sense in the adjective ; in some cases , certainly , the shift from ascription to association or vice versa may be accompanied by or compatible with such a lexical change ; but this may happen equally in cases of classical structural ambiguity , such as : ( 15 ) Charles will give a talk on the village green where two different senses of on are called upon , as one shifts from the one structure to the other . |
| 12 | Nor would the letting of the house at £400 a month be advisable , because the accommodation in the hotel that the Povah family would need is worth considerably more in terms of income . |
| 13 | Economic and Monetary Union ( EMU ) wo n't happen , nor will the progress towards European political union that it was supposed to advance . |
| 14 | Lord Wilberforce has insisted that ‘ [ t ] here is no appeal on merits from management decisions to courts of law : nor will the courts of law assume to act as a kind of supervisory board over decisions within the powers of management honestly arrived at ’ . |
| 15 | Nor will the banning of protest avail without ruthless determination to silence the brave . |
| 16 | No two firms will be alike , nor will the personalities of their partners . |
| 17 | Glasses will not help this condition , nor will the enlargement of print . |
| 18 | But he is not directly accessible in any ordinary sense , nor can the necessity of the concept of God for the interpreting of our experience be demonstrated , at least so far as pure reflection on the nature of our knowledge can take us . |
| 19 | Nor can the majority of the western left escape its responsibility for the situation in post-communist eastern Europe . |
| 20 | Nor can the elimination of two year waits be attributed to the internal market . |
| 21 | Nor can the operation of constitutional law be understood without reference to the practice of politics . |
| 22 | Nor can the appointment of an outsider be excluded : the names of Bernard-Henri Levy , one of the nouveaux philosophes , and of François Weyergans , the writer , have also come up . |
| 23 | Nor can the grounds on which payments of ex gratia compensation are made or refused be questioned in a court , unless criteria for the payment of such compensation are published . |
| 24 | Nor can the quality of his writing be denied , though it often needed the expertise of Terry Southern to translate the confusion of Hopper and Fonda 's joint ( no pun intended ) efforts into filmable dialogue . |
| 25 | Not that the other parties are n't full of the sweetest intentions — Mr Major 's determination to preserve the right of women to earn £2 an hour can not be doubted , nor can the sincerity of Mr Ashdown 's belief that women 's concerns should permeate every government department . |
| 26 | Nor can the expectations of senior staff in relation to ‘ control ’ be ignored by others looking to the hierarchy for guidance and favour . |
| 27 | Nor can the charge of time-serving be wholly accepted of a prelate who was on good terms with John XXII , who protested against the king 's retention of the Templars ' lands , and whose piety was esteemed by contemporaries . |