Example sentences of "nor as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't see television as an institution , nor as a continuum of programming into which my work must be fitted . |
| 2 | Football hooliganism , therefore , can neither be explained in terms of simple continuities nor as an abrupt discontinuity ; the location and the specific forms of juvenile riotousness were new but the phenomenon itself was as old as the hills . |
| 3 | But neither as a national leader nor as a party politician was he as commanding as his mother or his grandfather , Jawaharlal Nehru , India 's first prime minister . |
| 4 | Politics is thus not conceived of as ‘ a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants ’ ( Burke ) , nor as a matter of interests , conflicts and political goals , but instead as part of the struggle between good and evil . |
| 5 | They see urban decay not as a peripheral manifestation nor as a growing pain , but as a chronic condition of social polarization that is becoming firmly entrenched in British society . |
| 6 | The change in attitude was perhaps most clearly evident in Studies of Boy Life in Our Cities , where Urwick and his collaborators saw the boy neither ‘ as an amusing playmate nor as a vagrant from the ecclesiastical fold , but as the product of a still imperfect educational system and the embryo of the citizen who would decide the destiny of a still inchoate democracy ’ . |
| 7 | Barristers may not be sued for negligence if they botch a case in court ; nor as a general rule is their incompetence a ground of appeal against conviction . |
| 8 | The origin of his Kingdom was not in succession , nor as the result of conquest , expansion or power . |
| 9 | Kristeva 's model is not intended either as a concise account of feminism 's recent history nor as an orderly , linear chronology for feminists to follow ( though she does seem to think that each of her stages represents an improvement over the one before ) . |
| 10 | The first thesis is more difficult in that it does not express ideology as mere illusion nor as a reflection of real conditions . |
| 11 | Americas Watch stated that ‘ As best we can determine , torture as that term is generally understood is not practised in Nicaragua as a means of eliciting information or confessions , nor as a form of punishment ’ ( Americas Watch 1984 ) but its report goes on to detail cases where harsh interrogation techniques were used ( see also Amnesty International 1982 ) . |
| 12 | Neither in terms of practical diplomacy , nor as a factor in Japanese cultural or even economic relations , is Europe of remotely comparable importance to the US . |
| 13 | The development of a study of consumption may then be integrated , not as dichotomous to relations of production , nor as a universal social function , but as a continually growing element of modern culture , which must therefore play an increasingly prominent role in attempts to understand the nature of contemporary societies . |
| 14 | It is true , of course , that the category was never intended to deny the existence of other racisms , nor as an all-encompassing identity that would make ethnicity invisible or irrelevant . |
| 15 | They can scarcely be taken as a serious reason for the ‘ backwardness ’ of the Siberian peoples , nor as a justification for their subjugation by the Russians . |
| 16 | First , there is an episode which Thucydides mentions neither in the Fifty Years nor as an ‘ alleged reason ’ in book i ; but it has a claim to be mentioned , because it is clear interference with the colonial empire of Sparta 's ally Corinth . |
| 17 | The proportions of elderly people living in households who were neither living alone nor as a couple on their own fell by about half in the period 1961 to 1981 , so there is reduced scope for similar falls to occur in the future . |
| 18 | Equally , however , the farmer is entitled to demand that the countryside be viewed neither as a more extensive version of an urban recreation ground , nor as an arcadian idyll set aside for the pursuit of an indulgent atavism . |
| 19 | This level of command was fixed ie as General Dwight Eisenhower you would not be expected to fly planes into combat , nor as the jockey of a M1 Abrams tank could you try and effect changes in grand strategy . |
| 20 | Essentially he held to the line taken by the Ministry of Health in the 1930s : the school medical service was primarily educational , and had never been designed as a complete child health service , nor as an agency to relieve poverty as such — indeed , it operated within strict terms of reference set down by Parliament ; systematic medical inspection of evacuees would have been impossible in the conditions of panic and devastation forecast by all civil defence planners before the war ; many of the evacuees ' problems , such as bed-wetting , had cleared up quickly . |
| 21 | Innocent 's reply to Philip of Swabia 's supporters , addressed to Duke Berthold of Zähringen , declared that Guido of Preneste had acted neither as an elector nor as a judge but merely as a reporter ( denunciator ) on the qualities of Philip as a person unworthy . |
| 22 | The schools lacked any concept of educational advancement and were not providing a popular education as the basis of a common citizenship nor as a matter of occupational utility . |
| 23 | This book treats cooking neither as a mystery for initiates nor as a skill only the mentally deficient will not have mastered intuitively . |