Example sentences of "is neither [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When equal concentrations of FGF-4 and BMP-2 ( 50ngml - each ) are used , P-D growth is neither stimulated nor inhibited ( Fig. 2 j ; Table 1 ) . |
| 2 | But Miss Hannah Hauxwell is neither daunted nor overwhelmed . |
| 3 | It is neither understood nor accepted today and is greatly feared . |
| 4 | Such a tradition of behaviour ‘ is neither fixed nor finished ; it has no changeless centre to which understanding can anchor itself ; there is no sovereign purpose to be perceived or invariable direction to be detected ; there is no model to be copied , idea to be realised , or rule to be followed ’ . |
| 5 | The disk is high , indented interradially whereas that of O. hamula is neither indented nor as high especially in the region of the radial shields . |
| 6 | I believe it is possible to propose an explanation for the intuitive feeling one gets that the -ing form would be somewhat inappropriate here : the author is describing a person who is groping for anything which will reassure her before she meets her angry father and the mere fact that she is able to perceive objects which are familiar to her — when she feels so disoriented that she can take nothing for granted — is what gives her the sense that she is neither shirking nor lying . |
| 7 | Their impulse to rule is neither analysed nor questioned . |
| 8 | More importantly , by giving the impression that the government 's control-room department is neither flustered nor panicky , his confident , self-possessed performance has bolstered the prime minister 's own position just when she needed that support most . |
| 9 | Thus in the original formulation by Friedman , the natural unemployment rate possesses two analytically separable characteristics : ( a ) it corresponds to a state of overall full employment ; ( b ) it is that single rate at which the expected rate of inflation , and hence the actual rate of inflation , is neither rising nor falling . |
| 10 | A corporatist model is neither confirmed nor falsified by evidence of the autonomy of state officials , but such accounts must be able to evaluate precisely the role of elected governing elites , and the importance of their struggle for office . |
| 11 | For de Man the opposition of subject and object is neither conflated nor maintained , neither resolved nor left in any kind of productive tension , and the persuasive force of his argument depends upon the very slippage between these two rationales . |
| 12 | The answer that Hawking proposes is that the universe is neither created nor destroyed : It just is . |
| 13 | It is neither created nor destroyed . |
| 14 | Thus , in an early essay , she writes : ‘ I affirm that the intentionality of biblical faith … is neither to create nor to perpetuate patriarchy but rather to function as salvation for both women and men . ’ |
| 15 | By its nature , this sound is neither breathed nor voiced . |
| 16 | More important , natural selection provides a model of how there can be change towards a kind of fit or harmony , towards structured complexity , which is neither planned nor the result of goal-directed activity . |
| 17 | For someone who so obviously thrives on holding court , Shaun is neither ranting nor railing , the bragging and bullshit which characteristically pepper his interviews are conspicuous by their absence . |
| 18 | In Green terms , it is neither use nor ornament . |
| 19 | it is neither comfort nor vicissitude . ’ |
| 20 | A fundamental disadvantage with the conception of the British schemes is that such compensation is neither considered nor provided . |
| 21 | I , I 'm looking to see if Dr 's there because if he were me , or if I was him , I would say what the commissioner alleges is neither known nor admitted . |
| 22 | She is not hurt by what I have said , she thought , she is neither hurt nor angry , she does not understand what I have said , her mind is losing the powers of comprehension and she has no longer an emotional response . |
| 23 | Sadly , this remains a tentative part of Payne 's argument , it is neither elaborated or supported by example . |
| 24 | The ubiquitous expression of dependence and nurturance through the essentially mandatory giving and receiving of food does not , contrary to what might be expected , significantly constrain individual autonomy , at least in part because ‘ balanced ’ reciprocity ( Sahlins 1972 ) , involving the accounting of gifts and the expectation of equivalent return , is neither expected nor , in fact , permitted within the community . |
| 25 | However , where more than one person ( eg a merchant bank and a stockbroker ) agrees to act as the agent of a party to the takeover and his associates for the purpose of making disclosure , particular care must be taken to ensure that the responsibility for disclosure is agreed between the parties and that it is neither overlooked nor duplicated . |
| 26 | The same piece of information is seen differently when it is received from a favourite and trusted subordinate than when it is received from the manager of the intelligence section : the manager of the intelligence section is neither respected nor trusted . |