Example sentences of "nor to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | He had been neither to a great school nor to a university . |
| 3 | In their evidence to the Redcliffe-Maud Commission , the Ministry of Housing and Local Government ( MHLG ) ( as it then was ) argued that it led neither to an improved speed nor to a better quality of development control : the advantages which flowed from delegating some of the work load to district councils were offset by the shortage of qualified planning staff in most district offices , by the limited range of problems which arose within any one area , by the difficulties caused by the natural inclination of district councils to take a ‘ narrow view ’ , and by the extra administrative complications that limited delegation usually entailed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | It had occurred neither to them nor to the British that a diplomat was involved . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And so she went out to school every morning , not to the threepenny one run by the Council , nor to the Church of England , but to the penny school run by the Methodists . |
| 15 | In his view — a strictly private view aired neither to Sheila nor to the lounge bar of The Coach and Horses in Quindale — Anna Bouverie was , well , something ; not just a looker , but something more , something — |
| 16 | This schematic characterization , however , does not do justice either to the manner in which they attempted to keep both poles in play at once , nor to the way in which they came to concede the impossibility of the theoretical projects which they undertook . |
| 17 | I was not thinking of the fact that two New Zealanders were out for 99 , which is stupid and by no means a Test match first , nor to the fact that seven of England 's XI were born outside Britain . |
| 18 | To bring the Crown out of the poverty and debt which had marked most of the reign of Henry VI , both Edward IV and Richard III used professional receivers , auditors , and surveyors to increase the revenue from Crown lands ; and much of this larger income was paid , neither to the Exchequer nor to the Crown 's creditors , but to the Chamber of the royal Household , where it was at the disposal of the King . |
| 19 | Consider , though , a case in which a given enterprise is unwilling to invest because of low expected profitability , yet this low prospective profitability can be traced neither to faulty managerial calculations , nor to foreign competition of a kind justifying protection , nor to the failure of an identified ‘ need ’ for the enterprise 's product to register as monetary demand , nor to internal competition from other enterprises operating a more intensive exploitation of labour . |
| 20 | We have seen that the social collectivities often known as ‘ classes ’ in British society are reducible neither to economic classes in the Marxist sense nor to the sociologists ' occupational classes . |
| 21 | This appears to relate the inhibition from asking questions , save for the purpose of clarification , neither to the charging of the suspect nor to the time when he is in custody , but to the moment when he is cautioned . |
| 22 | In my view , when the truth of representations is being considered , no objection can be taken to the request relating to the first audit , nor to the second audit since the latter may well reveal material relevant to the conduct of the company 's business before acquisition and after acquisition in a way which reflects on the earlier conduct of the business . |
| 23 | Mainstream work did not refer at all to the potential role of minority languages in the curriculum , nor to the major debates that have taken place in this area . |
| 24 | Already by the mid 1970s it appeared , however , that neutralisation under Great Power guarantees as elaborated by Malaysia was acceptable neither to the majority of Southeast Asian states nor to the external powers that count . |
| 25 | ‘ I do not apologise to you , nor to the murderous bastard next to you ! |
| 26 | ‘ Everard 's wife has flu , ’ Rupert explained , ‘ so we owe the pleasure of your company this evening to that rather unfortunate occurrence , ’ he went on , feeling that in some obscure way he was being complimentary neither to Penelope nor to the absent Mildred Bone , but not quite seeing how else he could have put it . |
| 27 | held that engineer did not owe a duty of care to the first purchaser from the local authority nor to the owner occupier for the time being . |
| 28 | Neither young , nor to the minute fashionable , judging by what the youngsters wore , but presented with style . |
| 29 | In a reference to Iceland , Norway and Turkey , which belonged to NATO but neither to the EC nor to the WEU [ see p. 38216 ] , ministers said that " Allies that are not participating in the development of a European defence identity … should be adequately involved in decisions that affect their security " . |
| 30 | This proposal was not acceptable to their coalition partner , the FDP , nor to the SPD opposition . |