Example sentences of "neither [prep] [pron] [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Jim did not seem to be there enough for them to talk it through and neither of them had any money . |
4 | Neither of them had any desire to repeat the experience . |
5 | They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation . |
6 | It was puzzling : neither of them expressed any desire actually to see their origins again . |
7 | Neither of them paid any heed to the poor old grand-father , who had to tend the sacred fire all on his own . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | ‘ I tried the bank manager and the lawyer on that one and neither of them showed any enthusiasm . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Neither of you has any business bringing an unwanted " out of time " baby into the world . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | The big glass and the notes for the big glass , he wrote , not the big glass by itself and the notes by themselves , the big glass and the notes for the big glass , the notes for the big glass and the big glass , he wrote , never the one alone or the other alone , for neither by itself has any meaning , neither by itself will have any force , but always both together , not as text and gloss , not as image and caption , but always as exchange and delay , mirror and reflection . |