Example sentences of "nor [prep] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The first thesis is more difficult in that it does not express ideology as mere illusion nor as a reflection of real conditions . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This book treats cooking neither as a mystery for initiates nor as a skill only the mentally deficient will not have mastered intuitively . |
| 16 | Moin , nightwatchman , was beaten for pace on the pull-shot , but no declaration came at lunch ( 480 for 5 ) , nor after a rain interruption during which 12 overs were lost , it being believed that the runs were best scored in the first innings , and England would probably have been offered the light soon after their innings commenced . |
| 17 | It was proposed that the College should attempt systematically to buy in diseased animals , perhaps appointing a special member of staff for that purpose , but nothing came of this , nor of a linked suggestion that students ' fees should be increased to allow relevant staff increases . |
| 18 | C was not advised of this call , nor of a further call from the solicitor the following morning . |
| 19 | The Rottweiler is a robust dog , rather above medium size , neither clumsy nor light , neither tall on the leg nor like a greyhound . |
| 20 | For Benedict had not spoken rationally , nor like a man whose hopes had been disappointed . |
| 21 | His role in the film was one of his most difficult because there was nowhere to hide — neither behind make-up nor behind a character younger or older than himself . |
| 22 | Nor with a baby on the way . |
| 23 | Nor with a curse , as was the local habit . |
| 24 | Nobody forces you to consume the equivalent of halfa dozen eggs at one meal , but it is very easy to do so , so if you have eaten a mousseline of scallops , red mullet , and écrevisses floating in a lake of sabayon sauce , then do not follow it with a honey ice cream or one of those ali baba affairs nor with a peach charlotte containing five egg yolks , but rather with a tarte fine chaude aux pommes acidulées , which is nothing more outlandish or richer than an old-fashioned apple tart made on a base of puff pastry . |
| 25 | She was thus neither from a printing family , nor from a middle-class background , and felt obliged to counter rumours about her financial status : " It has been rumoured that I am a suffragette and a paid official : as a matter of fact , I an neither . |
| 26 | Not in a great cathedral nor in a doll 's house , not in the tumult of a strange new city nor in the once sanctified words of a tough peasant stalking the sour hills of Judah . |
| 27 | Wholly admirable , but perhaps not best expressed in terms of individual academic subjects , nor in a highly complex machinery of published testing and assessment . |
| 28 | Tracey and Morrison suggest that what she was trying to achieve in bringing the prosecution ‘ lay not in punishing Lemon , nor in a sense bringing back to life the blasphemy laws . |
| 29 | Therefore , one can not locate the priming effect in a semantic sub-system of the mental lexicon , nor in a phonological sub-system , and hence a model of the mental lexicon involving just these two sub-systems is untenable . |
| 30 | A happy home situation does not depend upon there being a housewife in residence twenty-four hours a day , nor on a woman doing all the housework herself . |