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Example sentences of "nor ever " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	In such a world , the easy resolution of the ethical dilemma remains problematic , for as Anne Akeroyd ( 1984 : 134 ) recognizes ‘ there is not , nor ever likely to be any definitive agreement about the nature of either the problems or solutions [ facing the social scientist and the question of ethics ] ’ .
2	But multiple-aspect signalling has not been ( nor ever will be ) universal .
3	While British defence expenditure was consistently high by comparative international standards , and while many idealists agonized over Britain 's possession of nuclear weapons , the vast bulk of British citizens , outside Northern Ireland , neither experienced military conflict nor ever expected to do so .
4	Nor ever shall till judgment day .
5	Any ‘ stable world ’ it presents is further overwhelmed by the progressive revelation that each narrator exists only as an imaginative device of a subsequent one , in a succession of evasions leading towards the unnamable author and the depths of an impulse to articulate , which can neither rest nor ever consummate its desires .
6	An understanding of ‘ god ’ which was derived from the timeless story of evolution and life experience , and not from the results of the mindless suppression of the products of developing intelligence , would be a treasure indeed , and the very important first step in the establishing of this ‘ god ’ is the full acceptance of the premise that no such ‘ god ’ is already in existence , nor ever has been .
7	But as a Muslim city it never aspired to , nor ever achieved , anything like the turbulent freedom of the Italian city republics , at least till much later .
8	Those metal flags never stirred , nor ever would .
9	He had never raced on an oval nor ever driven more than 200 miles in a race .
10	never played — who also died — nor ever found ?
11	She had not slept with Ivan , nor ever would , but was deriving a secret satisfaction from the knowledge that present at her party that night would be all the men with whom she had ever slept : or all save one , and he had been from another country , and she had not known his name .
12	Her explicit instructions were not to get involved , nor ever to reveal her real purpose there .
13	I 'm not , nor ever will be .
14	Nor ever likely to return . ’
15	They push a tack into the bark of the saman tree and make a wish , they whisper their pleas to the spirit inhering in the tree , as they imagine , rightly ( though Sycorax has no power , nor ever had , except in dreaming ) .
16	But she seldom laughs nor ever cries . ’
17	Nor ever did .
18	There is probably nothing to be done about people , he thought , nothing at all , nor ever has been : processed , from the cradle to the grave .
19	She found that she was able to think of Johnny dispassionately , and she acknowledged to herself with honesty , and a new clarity of understanding , that she did not love him , nor ever could .
20	He 'd had Ribena with ice in it himself , and he could remember now , quite distinctly , thinking how horrible it must be for Kate , not to have a father , nor ever to have an occasion like this .
21	Inside the hall of the house in Maryon Park Gardens , a tearful , frightened little man was explaining that his name was Bill Pitkin , that he was not Terry Place , that he had never seen Terry Place nor ever heard of him .
22	We are not , nor ever shall be infallible .
23	‘ Not surprising , ’ her mama had said gently , ‘ seeing that neither of you ever sits still for a moment , nor ever stops talking , either . ’
24	Nor ever will now .
25	But of course he never did speak with his tongue nor ever would have done if he wanted to hang on to his job .
26	The like of it never has nor ever will be seen again .
27	No claim to absolute authority is made by any encoder , nor ever should be ; the TEI scheme merely allows encoders to ‘ come clean ’ about what they have perceived in a text , to whatever degree of detail seems appropriate .