Example sentences of "nor be it a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a view is inadequate in that there has come into existence , in the twentieth century , a body of literature in social science which is not poetry , nor is it a traditional style of philosophy . |
| 2 | Nor is it a literal representation of the speaker 's thought . |
| 3 | Nor is it a weighted argument to suggest that when teachers find that their school may be blackballed in future schemes of co-operation with other local schools they might not notice if in fact they had felt little practical benefit from any co-operation in the past . |
| 4 | Nor is it a one-sided account of the injustices suffered by this people , or a defence of the energetic stranger . |
| 5 | In many cases , it does not fit into the administrative systems of the parties , nor is it a usual way of doing business . |
| 6 | Nor is it an effective method of notifying the members , creditors or the general public , few of whom read the Gazette . |
| 7 | Nor is it an easy pink to obtain : in order that pink light should frame the shape of the little opera house and its windows all glow pink , 2,000 light bulbs were removed and replaced with others which workaday electricians ' pink not being the thing at all — had all been painted in the requisite shade by hand . |
| 8 | What they have to say is not the result of a private negotiation between self and text , nor is it an unmediated response of gender identity to a representation of masculinity : it is mediated by the position they take up as readers . |
| 9 | In this sense science is not a sociological category ( i.e. one that can be used to describe specific social forms ) nor is it an epistemological category ( i.e. one that can be used to account for the form or validity of knowledge ) . |
| 10 | The source of these difficulties is not the campaign of opposition waged by the British Medical Association , nor is it an incipient revolt among backbench MPs . |
| 11 | Nor was it a regular determinant of foreign relations ; the faction-fighting between Mary of Gueldres and bishop Kennedy was the exception rather than the rule . |
| 12 | Looking back from the late 1980s it seems that decentralization was not a clean break , nor was it a temporary aberration , since elements of both continue to exist side by side in the British settlement system . |
| 13 | ‘ Nor was it a high risk situation from my point of view , because for these were tried and tested individuals we were putting on the field . |
| 14 | Nor was it an appealing thought to the king that while his own bureaucrats and servants were being thus harried , the pope 's men were assured of dispensations enough , and that since the resigned livings were vacated by papal decree , and therefore in effect at the Curia , they were to be filled by papal provision , not by the previous or usual patron . |