Example sentences of "neither of [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such views are very different from those that would be associated with behaviourism or epiphenomenalism , neither of which allows mental states any causal role in the production of behaviour . |
| 2 | The rich farming land surrounding the city determined the city , s development as a market town , with its regular cattle and produce sales , neither of which attracted Jewish merchants . |
| 3 | He did two more West End comedies , neither of which lasted three months , and theatre managements were suddenly less anxious to pick up the phone and plead with his agent . |
| 4 | Afghanistan now has two governments of a sort , neither of which has much authority . |
| 5 | At one end of the chain there is a quantum mechanically uncertain electron ; at the other a dependable pointer or equally reliable observer , neither of which exhibits any uncertainty in its behaviour . |
| 6 | The first is the extent to which constituents of opaque expressions are ‘ full ’ semantic indicators : clearly blackbird , with two full indicators , is less opaque than ladybird , with one partial indicator only ( — bird ) , which in turn is less opaque than red herring or in a brown study , neither of which contains any indicators at all . |
| 7 | Neither of them had much appetite but they finished the wine . |
| 8 | Jim did not seem to be there enough for them to talk it through and neither of them had any money . |
| 9 | Neither of them had any desire to repeat the experience . |
| 10 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 11 | They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation . |
| 12 | It was puzzling : neither of them expressed any desire actually to see their origins again . |
| 13 | The princes ate their supper in silence , neither of them having much appetite . |
| 14 | As they spoke , neither of them reminded each other of their passion a few hours earlier ; it was as if it had never happened . |
| 15 | Neither of them paid any heed to the poor old grand-father , who had to tend the sacred fire all on his own . |
| 16 | Neither of them showed any inclination to do other than sit outside the café in the sunshine , and Oliver had shifted the conversation far away from the Durances and murder . |
| 17 | ‘ I tried the bank manager and the lawyer on that one and neither of them showed any enthusiasm . |
| 18 | However , neither of them makes any reference to her husband , or to the dynamics of her marriage relationship in these comments , though Norma Larkin makes some ( implicit ) observations about marriage in general . |
| 19 | But in this , which he achieved by bold leaps and chromaticisms of melody and harmony , he was far surpassed by Saracini and Belli ( neither of whom composed polyphonic madrigals ) whose shock effects are comparable with Gesualdo 's of the same period ( see p. 267 ) , as in this passage from Belli 's ‘ Ardo ma non ardi ’ from his Libro dell' arie a I e 2 V. per sonarsi con il chitarrone ( Florence , 1616 ) : or the opening of Saracini 's ‘ Tu parti ’ from his sixth book of Musiche ( Venice , 1624 ) . |
| 20 | Despite Knox 's fulminations against ‘ that cruel tyrant and unmerciful hypocrite ’ , the archbishop of St Andrews , and the ‘ woman born to dissemble and deceive ’ , Mary of Guise , it was in fact an act quite out of character of both archbishop and regent , neither of whom showed any taste for persecution . |
| 21 | Neither of you has any business bringing an unwanted " out of time " baby into the world . |
| 22 | Try to have your progress reviewed regularly with your nurse manager , so that neither of you makes misleading assumptions about your ability to cope or happiness in the job . |
| 23 | I 'm not leaving you here all alone , so it 's a case of you either coming with me , or of me staying here for the rest of the night and neither of us getting any rest . |
| 24 | You just jump in half-cocked , and get the wrong idea of the argument then I was just about to say to you that is n't the better way of doing things , cos obviously neither of us knows that way it 's just a different way and it was just a a matter of opinion so I mean |
| 25 | Neither of us paid much attention . |