Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] nor " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides Maxim Gorky and a daughter of L. Tolstoy , it included the President of the Second Duma and even S. N. Prokopovich , the Minister of Food in the Provisional Government of 1917 , who was neither a Bolshevik nor a Menshevik . |
| 2 | Alternatively , the doctor may seek the concurrence of a relative who is neither a parent nor a guardian . |
| 3 | The judge found , however , that it was a direction to the executors varying their obligations in the administration and distribution of the state and neither a contract nor a gift . |
| 4 | Indeed , as one account put it , ‘ The Incas ruled their people in such a way that there was among them neither a thief nor a vicious man nor a sluggard nor an adulterous woman … |
| 5 | His own father , Charles the Cheesemonger , was neither a cardmaker nor a pauper , and we can hardly suppose that any loss of common rights through enclosures had had any direct impact upon his family as it had upon so many others . |
| 6 | Although it is black and white and often carries its tail cocked up , the Seychelles magpie robin is , of course , neither a magpie nor a robin . |
| 7 | Misunderstandings have sometimes arisen from an unwarrantable belief that title deeds are sacrosanct documents , whereas the truth is that neither a conveyance nor a land certificate retains its value if the landowner is so indifferent as to lose physical control of his land . |
| 8 | Ochshorn writes : ‘ Jesus was neither a feminist nor a misogynist . |
| 9 | Since Scott is primarily neither a storyteller nor a director of actors — though the film was strongly cast , making the latter point less significant — he sometimes resorted to tricks to get a response . |
| 10 | He made a rough shape that was neither a cube nor a sphere , but a wet and hollow lump . |
| 11 | While neither a saint nor a psychopath , he clearly had some of the characteristics of both — ; chiefly what Lydia could only think of as a sort of selfless solipsism . |
| 12 | Could there be an application for the observation that most methylated purines give neither a peak nor an inflexion on cathodic stripping voltammetry ? |
| 13 | Dustin was neither a boy nor a beatnik , nor was he mobbed . |
| 14 | There was neither a window nor a door open : customers and staff sweated visibly and there was the smell of a sports changing-room . |
| 15 | I am neither a bailiff nor a tax-collector . |
| 16 | But for each of the thousand or so explicitly identifiable speech acts there are just as many for which there is neither a name nor a lexical indicator . |
| 17 | It was neither a question nor a comment . |
| 18 | In procedural terms , Eden was neither a reformist nor a tinkerer . |
| 19 | Today , being an active member of a political party seems to be neither a qualification nor a disqualification for appointment . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm neither a boss nor a workman ’ , he would say . |
| 21 | Parliament was neither a rubber-stamp nor a makeweight in the constitutional balance . |
| 22 | They had to retrace their steps to pick it up again , while a second team discovered that neither a policeman nor the Council knew where the Local Authority parcels office was . |
| 23 | Although I had decided to have neither a healer nor a counsellor , I had , in earlier weeks when feeling positive , made gentle , tentative enquiries . |
| 24 | ‘ Neither a lender nor a borrower be ’ was often heard in Peter 's house . |
| 25 | His father had said all along : ‘ neither a lender nor a borrower be ’ . |
| 26 | XEROX : Shakespeare 's silent character , hence the continuing confusion over ‘ Something is rotten Xerox in the state of Denmark ’ , ‘ Neither a borrower nor a lender be for loan Xerox oft loses both itself and Xerox friend ’ and the most famous ‘ You are disgusting , in fact you are rank , Xerox . ’ |
| 27 | Results of psycholinguistic experiments to do with the intelligibility of words spliced out of context seem to cast doubt on the usefulness of the categorization , however , Lieberman ( 1963 ) found that , the word borrower was recognised by 80% of subjects when isolated from the context , The borrowers were all imprisoned , but was only 45% intelligible in the context Neither a borrower nor a lender be . |
| 28 | ‘ John Leverrier was neither a fool nor a coward . |
| 29 | It is perhaps ironic that the product which has seen the complete transformation in Apple Computer 's financial status is neither a computer nor a piece of software . |
| 30 | A baby is neither a product nor an invention nor a necessary extension of one 's wardrobe . |