Example sentences of "nor be [pron] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Elections were not the only occasions when those below the level of the elite could give voice to their political inclinations , nor were they the only points of contact between the world " out-of-doors " and that of Westminster .
2 The moral discourses of purity feminism were neither a reactionary barrier to feminist progress nor were they the simple expression of militant feminist consciousness .
3 Nor is it the first time that Rupert 's good name has been besmirched .
4 Nor is it the Forbidden City or the Kremlin .
5 Kalkadoon is not the work of an individual nor is it the conscious product of any group .
6 There is not the opportunistic freedom of being able to change the direction to follow a temptation , nor is there the firm route-planning that would lead to a specific destination .
7 Nor was there the usual rise in ammonia or nitrite levels , as there had been in the past .
8 Nor was there the slightest need to tell her of the thoughts that were uppermost in his mind .
9 To reiterate , the purity movement was neither a conservative barrier to women 's sexual freedom , nor was it the passive vehicle for an emergent feminist consciousness .
10 Desktop Publisher certainly was n't the first newsletter to be produced using computers , many titles are word processed , nor was it the first publication to be desktop published , that honour probably goes to The Wordsmith , but we were the first newsletter to specialise on desktop publishing !
11 Nor was it the only way in which he was inadequate as a Christian ruler .
12 Nor was it the only deduction : there were charges for seaming the stockings , for use of a corner of the master knitter 's workshop , for needles , candles , oil , coals and for the expenses involved in collecting in work .
13 Nor was it the disturbing rumours that by December 26 the country could be in the grip of a new and particularly alien ‘ Made in Taiwan ’ midwinter flu .
14 ‘ It was n't technology that doomed nuclear power in the US , nor was it the dedicated obstructionist tactics of the anti-nuclear forces , effective though they were .
15 Nor was I the innocent bystander taking his lunchtime beer in his local , to whom Shmekov slipped the information , two hours before the police grabbed him , that altered the Alliance 's whole strategy towards the opposing ’ powers in the Southern Apex .
16 Nor was he the only imperialist of his day of whom it might have been said , as one of his biographers said of him , that he had ‘ a genius for backing into the limelight ’ .
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