Example sentences of "nor to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean no disrespect to the geriatric branch of the hospital service nor to the domiciliary services or the rapidly increasing old people 's houses and homes provided by local housing , health and welfare authorities when I say that I believe we are still groping and fumbling with this problem — all of us , social scientists and politicians alike . |
| 2 | Thus , churches are not like theatres , nor to be valued primarily as works of art . |
| 3 | But detachment is one of Moorhouse 's qualities , and he is blind neither to the failings of individuals nor to those of the game as a whole . |
| 4 | The ‘ contradiction ’ in thinking that things might exist ‘ distinct from … being perceived by the understanding ’ is ‘ manifest ’ neither to the philosophers nor to vulgar common sense . |
| 5 | She disregarded such things altogether , rather relished them , in fact ; and she must have been very strong , because I never knew her to show any weakness , nor to be other than her usual cheerful , robust-spirited self . |
| 6 | ‘ Look neither to the right nor to the left , but keep straight on ’ , Asquith had told the faithful in his resignation speech of October 1926 . |
| 7 | It had occurred neither to them nor to the British that a diplomat was involved . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Not , ’ he went on hastily , ‘ that I liken my wife to Mr Landor nor to a wild animal , but she had similar need of kindness and nursing expertise . ’ |
| 9 | She no longer wrote to Ferdinando nor to anyone else except Ellen and these were dutiful enquiries after Oreste 's health with reports of her own and Pilade 's . |
| 10 | the future belongs neither to small States , nor to small Churches , but to great federal unions of self-governing communities … |
| 11 | Equally , parents have no right to insist on the provision of single-sex schooling , nor to payment by the local authority of fees for educating the child in a single-sex school in the private sector . |
| 12 | This can be welcome neither to the Jordanian regime nor to themselves . |
| 13 | In particular , Lubow , Rifkin , and Alek ( 1976 ) themselves have shown that animals pre-exposed in one environment and tested in another can learn more readily than a control group exposed neither to the stimuli nor to the test apparatus . |
| 14 | One example is the combination of a rural petty-bourgeois ancestry and the children of those parents , who live a very different life in a future which is already upon us , as in the two novels already discussed and , to some extent , in Marco Lodoli 's Diario di un millennio che fugge ( Diary of a millennium in flight , 1986 ) ; the protagonists of these fictions seem to belong neither to the past nor to the future , but to be caught in between , in some time-slip between the nineteenth and the twenty-first centuries . |
| 15 | It exasperated his grandmother to see this forceful spirit drifting like a rudderless boat , directed neither to work nor to leisure . |
| 16 | Resting and delighting in God is not confined to the mind , nor to the emotions , but brings our whole being into the presence of God . |
| 17 | There still remains a variable minority of cases of non-gonococcal urethritis which are due neither to chlamydial infection nor to one of the other causes mentioned earlier . |
| 18 | Ormrod J. seems to hold in Corbett that sexual relations with a woman with an artificial vagina would amount neither to consummation nor to adultery . |
| 19 | Little specific attention was paid to older people in the White Paper , Working for Patients , nor to the effect on them of changes in the GP contract , but the implications of the changes for the care of older patients may be significant . |
| 20 | The project made no evident difference to levels of cognitive impairment , nor to stated feelings of worry , sadness , loneliness or unhappiness . |
| 21 | On the whole , it can be said that Coleman , in the circumstances , served the College , the profession and the country , well and that a balanced assessment , tending neither to adulation nor to denigration , is indicated . |
| 22 | Gale underrates what Charles did scientifically ; he also underrates the opposition — he gives no references , for example , to who held the theory of multiple creation , nor to why . |
| 23 | Yet this ‘ black and white ’ approach is not enough and he goes further : each text , Asheim argues , should be assessed as a whole — to do otherwise would be fair neither to the book nor to the author . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , they were not immune to public pressure nor to the machinations of some of their fellow councillors and critics , and the realisation that their policy was not as flexible 85 they had hoped , they started to liberalise it both in its written form and its application to particular cases . |
| 25 | No one knew from where they came — nor to where they went . |
| 26 | Curiously enough , the same MPs who opposed the building of barracks never objected to the press-gang nor to the occasional use of conscription to keep the army up to strength . |
| 27 | People who fall into this habit often have a weak sense of identity and have felt very taken over as children , not allowed their own thoughts and feelings , nor to be themselves . |
| 28 | They did not confine themselves to church attendance nor to their concern for church buildings , but endeavoured to follow Christian principles in their everyday lives . |
| 29 | In virtually equating doubt and unbelief they make doubt the opposite of faith in a way that is true neither to the Bible nor to what we know of human knowledge . |
| 30 | From the Latin limbus ( the edge ) , it is the name given to the region inhabited by those spirits who can go neither to Heaven because they are not baptised , nor to Hell because they have committed no great sin . |