Example sentences of "nor [vb mod] [pers pn] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought all treatment was free on the N H S , do I have to pay and they answer no , nor should you have been sent the bill although the hospital was within its rights to make a charge for the emergency treatment fee . |
| 2 | Nor could they have been after business regained its initiative in 1947 . |
| 3 | Yet the above comparison has never worked , nor could it have been expected to . |
| 4 | Rose no longer wished to go out , nor could she tolerate being left on her own , so she became totally dependent on other people . |
| 5 | Nor could she have been aware of the matey tap with which the russet radical awoke the aforementioned scribe in the morning , a cup of tea grasped in his proletarian fist . |
| 6 | Nor need it have been completely unexpected , for the original appointment of a German , whom Cnut had possibly brought from Denmark , could , though need not , imply that he was concerned from the start about the trustworthiness of the Ramsey abbot . |
| 7 | The queen mother 's religious views and those of the French advisers she gathered around her did little to allay the reformers ' fears ; nor would they have been happy to know that on Mary 's marriage in 1558 to the Dauphin , who the following year became King Francis II , she secretly signed an agreement that if she should die childless her kingdom of Scotland and her claim to the throne of England should become her husband 's . |
| 8 | It would not have been in his nature , nor would he have been inclined , to do otherwise … |
| 9 | Nor would she have been , if it had not been for him . |
| 10 | Nor would it have been constitutionally possible for me to have become head of the Church of England . ’ |
| 11 | Nor would it have been true , for I greatly feared death , suspecting myself to be damned . |
| 12 | Nor would it have been possible to ask , nor even to rely on any information which might have been forthcoming , since Amabel , who always retired to bed for the duration of her own " monthly curse " had said nothing more to the point than , " Darling , I must beg of you never to speak of this to anyone , when Gemma at the age of fourteen had first seen evidence of hers . |
| 13 | Certainly most members of the general public will have heard of the Draize test for detecting the irritant potential of cosmetics , or perhaps the more widely used LD50 , nor will they have been spared photographs of immobilised creatures in plaintive lines . |
| 14 | He will not be able to edit it or to introduce pauses to allow for comprehension ; nor will he have been able to prepare practice exercises ( oral or written ) based on the broadcast . |
| 15 | Nor can they have been substantial enough to have provided defence against further attacks from the Huns or from the Alamans . |
| 16 | Nor can it have been pleasing to the Poitevin nobles . |