Example sentences of "nor [vb mod] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor should we ever underestimate the capacity of old people to alter life-long patterns of interaction when need arises . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Nor could one really compare a sacred and honourable estate like marriage to a relationship with a cat . |
| 4 | Thus in choosing between two alternative sets of pleasure one can not necessarily decide which is preferable by an arithmetical calculation , nor could one necessarily do so even if one was omniscient . |
| 5 | In Pomerania the general impoverishment and the already poor Pomeranian soil meant that very few peasants could gather together enough money to buy their own farm equipment — a necessary prerequisite for purchase of their land from the estate — nor could they ever manage to garner a purchase price that was often the equivalent of over 25 years ' rent . |
| 6 | Further , the judges in relation to their judicial duties as to who should have the rights of audience have never divested themselves of those duties , nor could they ever do so . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nor could he even remember now what he had said in that burst of spleen . |
| 9 | Nor could he safely convey tissue to his mouth on such a blade ; which could easily sever his own tongue . |
| 10 | Nor could he possibly notice her dipping hemline . |
| 11 | Nor could she then justify employing a cleaner and the odd-job man who kept all the local gardens more or less under control . |
| 12 | In August , near Worth , he sent his mother " a memoir of the horribly devastated battlefield , scattered all over with countless mournful remains and reeking with dead bodies " and in December he wrote to a friend : " if one is to avoid losing all courage , one must not think of these frightful things any more " It is apparent how far removed this mood was from any chauvinistic or militaristic fervour — nor would we particularly expect any such fervour ( despite long established misconceptions about Nietzsche 's attitudes ) from one whose ideas of German nationhood were moulded so largely by the cultural preoccupations of a Hölderlin or a Schopenhauer . |
| 13 | Yet the fact was , they had not benefited by the death , nor would they necessarily do so . |
| 14 | ‘ From a practical point of view , they are still dependent on their company for career progression and can not have the independence an external auditor would have nor would they necessarily have the technical expertise if they conducted a statutory audit only once a year . ’ |
| 15 | Nor would he ever have remembered it , had he not met the man again , a long way from Lindos . |
| 16 | He had not asked , nor would he ever ask , what provision was normally made for these frequent and illicit journeys , the relays of horses , the hire , perhaps , of boats , transport for the cloth . |
| 17 | After two years her owner felt that she had run out of options : Anna was a horse without a future : she could never be a riding horse , nor would she ever breed . |
| 18 | ‘ Nor would I ever mention your name . ’ |
| 19 | Nor shall I again urge the objections cited above to the ‘ murderous conspiracy ’ theory . |
| 20 | A few days later , from the bleak room of a grimy hotel , the rain pouring down outside the window , he surveyed his surroundings and wrote forlornly : ‘ Theo , I never suspected her , nor do I now , nor shall I ever suspect her of having had financial motives , more than is honest and just . |
| 21 | ‘ No freeman shall be taken , or imprisoned , or be disseised of his freehold or liberties , or free customs , or be outlawed or exiled , or any otherwise destroyed ; nor will we not pass upon him , nor condemn him , but by lawful judgment of his peers , or by the law of the land . |
| 22 | You wo n't , in my house , say one word against Aunt Emily , nor will we ever mention your mother again since she and my grandmother are now , I see , quite different people , torn apart by your distorted view . ’ |
| 23 | He has never gone through the pain and never will , nor will he ever suffer from post-natal depression , morning sickness and the list goes on . |
| 24 | But he must be all too aware that it wo n't impress the Soviet citizens facing economic crisis , and waiting in the food queues , nor will it immediately resolve the ethnic problems which beset him . |
| 25 | Nor will it immediately persuade England 's selectors to extend Gooch 's reign as captain beyond the third Ashes Test . |
| 26 | It will not apply to tribunals which have an internal hierarchy , the top of which can impose a uniform meaning , nor will it necessarily apply where there is only one tribunal in an area . |
| 27 | In one dispute he is twice quoted as saying , on different occasions , ‘ we intend , nor will none otherwise do at any time , but according to the king 's laws ’ — and there is no reason to suppose that he did not mean it . |
| 28 | In one dispute he is twice quoted as saying , on different occasions , ‘ we intend , nor will none otherwise do at any time , but according to the king 's laws ’ — and there is no reason to suppose that he did not mean it . |
| 29 | Nor can we easily resolve this methodological problem by appealing to any clear theoretical definition of semantic equivalence based on formal syntactic relations between sentences , since even within generative syntax this is a highly unstable and controversial area of linguistic theory . |
| 30 | Nor can we fundamentally question the rules of logic , for only when we assume them can we ask a question at all . |