Example sentences of "nor could " in BNC.
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| 1 | He suggests the army could no longer be used to drain off the unemployable proletariat by conscription , nor could the newly independent colonies be used to dump the troublesome of society ( see also Hughes 1987 ) . |
| 2 | nor could enter her eyes by probing |
| 3 | Nor could you just shut your eyes and throw them down the hatch ; because the whole pleasure of a chicken 's foot would come from sucking and nibbling it slowly , seeking out the tasty skin and the fragments of flesh like the last moments of a particularly luscious spare rib . |
| 4 | Nor could the courts cope , and there would be a deterioration in the public 's perception of the police as a result of the disjuncture with lay conceptions of legality . |
| 5 | Nor could it be said that the British welfare system identified , or even defined , let alone assisted , the genuinely needy groups as effectively as did some systems prevailing elsewhere . |
| 6 | Nor could Chamberlain ever show how a preference within the low tariffs , which were the most that Britain would conceivably tolerate upon her food or raw materials , could make the difference , as he constantly reiterated , between Imperial consolidation and Imperial dissolution . |
| 7 | Nor could leaders of the Conservative party offer active support for the idea , for it implied lack of confidence in the leadership of Baldwin no less than in that of MacDonald . |
| 8 | Marx , however , realized that the need to make a living could never directly explain what human beings do , nor could it account for the complexity of human history itself . |
| 9 | Older women might influence decisions but they could never make them , nor could Hindu and Jain families where the women themselves can sometimes be tyrants over their daughters-in-law , sisters-in-law and even younger brothers-in-law , see p. 118 Chapter 7 . ) |
| 10 | Nor could a looser grouping of sovereign states cope with the awkward trade-offs which the Western response to Eastern Europe will involve . |
| 11 | Nor could they turn their backs on the housing needs of the people already living in the county . |
| 12 | Law and morality were not yet clearly distinguished , nor could one even say that the whole of law or justice was to be found in any one court ; the Ecclesiastical Courts , and Local Courts of many different kinds , administered a justice which was not the justice of the Common Law Courts ; so the thought was natural that even the King 's justice was not exhausted in the power conferred on his courts . |
| 13 | Nor could I shake off a feeling that Aunt Louise was sitting beside me , enjoying it too . |
| 14 | Nor could men be sure , as faith diminished , that death would only visit them , or their loved ones , in God 's good time . |
| 15 | Nor could Hitler 's speech on ‘ Heroes ’ Memorial Day ’ — the nazified remembrance of the dead of the First World War — on 15 March do much to improve morale . |
| 16 | Nor could I contemplate the journey which fills me with fear near to fainting . |
| 17 | Nor could the Reverend Baron but he left immediately he heard in May that the Grand Duke of Tuscany had abdicated : that , he vowed , was the clearest possible indication of open war and he wanted to be away . |
| 18 | Nor could she decide whether this was a blessing or not . |
| 19 | Nor could it be a cat , for there had never been a cat in the Casa Guidi . |
| 20 | Nor could he tax : he simply did not have the power to levy impositions like the taille and the gabelle , as the French king did . |
| 21 | Nor could jumpy Orrell cope with the efficiency of the steady , unflurried Pilgrim , the full-back , who kicked Wasps ' penalty goals besides putting in the delicate chip that set up the try for Oti . |
| 22 | Nor could the vaunted irrigation scheme be described as an unqualified success . |
| 23 | He could hardly now suggest lunch , nor could he , at this solemn moment , eat the apple which was in his jacket pocket . |
| 24 | Nor could the academic organization of the schools remain as rudimentary as it had been : communication and management would not just ‘ happen ’ in schools of a thousand pupils or more , and the stream of curriculum innovation needed to be carefully channelled — especially in a system where each school enjoyed considerable freedom in choosing patterns of study and teaching methods . |
| 25 | No one farmer could possibly be qualified to advise on all the options , nor could he do more than skate over them in one volume . |
| 26 | Rose no longer wished to go out , nor could she tolerate being left on her own , so she became totally dependent on other people . |
| 27 | In two test cases the Law Lords decided that house-buyers — at least at the cheap end of the market — were entitled to damages against valuers who failed to exercise reasonable skill and care — nor could this liability be excluded by a small-print disclaimer . |
| 28 | You certainly had to be tough to live at Tullivers after the Admiral had gone , for Lucy Trigg , in her eighties , could not be bothered to have any domestic help , nor could she be bothered to light fires , to cook meals for herself , nor to clean the house and tend the garden . |
| 29 | For I do not think it possible to study philosophy profitably without entering fairly deeply into the history of the subject , and for this there is not time at school , nor could it be a subject that would interest more than a very few pupils . |
| 30 | Though I had small scale maps at three inches to a mile for some areas they are not produced for all the Sahara , nor could I have afforded the hundred pounds they would have cost if they had been . |