Example sentences of "nor [modal v] [noun] be " in BNC.

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1 Nor should banks be allowed to forget why they are in difficulties .
2 Patients should not be discharged without such arrangements , but nor should beds be blocked unnecessarily .
3 They should not learn different roles depending on their sex , nor should learning be based on punishments but on respect for their understanding and potentialities .
4 Nor could visits be paid to her .
5 Nor could reports be produced necessarily with much consultation in the holiday period .
6 Nor could outcomes be retrospectively measured against stated objectives , since the project was still in progress and would , in any event , be having an effect long after any official end to the programme .
7 Nor could men be sure , as faith diminished , that death would only visit them , or their loved ones , in God 's good time .
8 Gorbachev had no doubt that the socialist choice in October 1917 had been the right one ; nor could Marx be blamed for subsequent developments he had obviously been unable to foresee .
9 Nor would Morse be forgetting the only man who had not been present at the meeting — the man who still lay with a wicked headache and a barely touched breakfast-tray beside him in Room 201 , to which room Shirley Brown had shepherdessed him when , after his unexplained absence , he had reeled into The Randolph the previous night .
10 Thus unexamined documents would not have to be taken into account in the retrieval evaluation nor would performance be based on the retrieval of the " best document " .
11 Chemical defoliants would not be used against crops , nor would producers be arrested or property confiscated .
12 Nor would Tug be able to stop shrieking .
13 The United States declared that all non-humanitarian US economic support would be withheld " until the democratic process is restored " ; nor would action be taken on Romania 's bid to regain " most favoured nation " trade status , which would allow low tariffs for exports to the USA .
14 Nor can Hewlett be dismissed as having been lucky and got it right first time : it did n't .
15 It is not always as easy as that ; nor can adults be caught with the mela .
16 Under EC regulations contaminated eggs can not be banned from the UK nor can eggs be labelled as ‘ imported ’ .
17 Nor can experiences be interpreted quite simply as a species of natural states or events .
18 They can not propose amendments ( nor can amendments be moved when orders are discussed by the whole House in the Chamber ) .
19 Nor can Edward be blamed for not foreseeing the ends to which Gloucester might put his power .
20 Nor can Edward be blamed for not foreseeing the ends to which Gloucester might put his power .
21 As two days are allocated for the match in order to obtain a result , refunds can not be made and nor can tickets be accepted back for exchange or re-sale .
22 Nor can democracy be expected to work smoothly in a society with rigid divisions , producing a permanent majority and a permanent minority .
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