Example sentences of "nor can we [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand we can not forget the trust placed in us by the general public , nor can we watch the gradual erosion of the original plans without a public protest , and a public request to the health authority to please think again . |
| 2 | We suggest that , while bicycles may be recognizable by reference to the fact that they are damaged ( as in ( 59 ) ) , we can not easily describe bicycles as belonging to us in the same respect ; nor can we refer to ideas as belonging to you inasmuch as they are " discussed " . |
| 3 | What this meant varied greatly from place to place and from time to time ; nor can we make any satisfactory generalizations about the nature of medieval law . |
| 4 | Nor can we do more than guess at the consequences of the Greek ignorance of Latin . |
| 5 | Only when this has been done , can any serious attempt be made to analyse any crucial stratified groups from civil or military sites , since we have no knowledge of the origins of the pottery , nor can we give a proper scientific description of the fabrics . |
| 6 | Nor can we measure it in the present if we regard the present as an indivisible instant that is truly momentary and without duration . |
| 7 | Nor can we think of the Christian God as three persons in the way that we normally consider them to be , or we would surely have to conclude that it was a religion committed to polytheism . |
| 8 | But we can not exclude an effect of ACE on the metabolism of other peptides in view of its wide substrate specificity , nor can we exclude the possibility that a variant of another gene , closely linked to the ACE gene , causes the observed association . |
| 9 | We , society as a whole , must decide what we want school to do ; and if we can not agree on this we are not entitled to complain that schools , and teachers , fail to give us what we want , nor can we hope to find ways to improve the situation . |
| 10 | And the human species can not be considered to be eternal either , as we know it did not always exist in its present form , nor can we expect it to have an infinite existence . |
| 11 | When we turn to that most distinctive feature of cave organisms , regressive evolution , we can not decide whether it is caused by selection or genetic drift ; nor can we settle whether allozymic variation is due to selection or drift . |
| 12 | Nor can we rely , if we ever could , on the free play of market forces to effect a coincidence of public and private good . |
| 13 | Nor can we say that context-specificity will never appear when aversive conditioning is used . |
| 14 | Nor can we say that only women have access to the powers of the night . |
| 15 | In conclusion , we confirm that there is good evidence for an increased incidence of lymphoid leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphomas among young people in Seascale , though we are unable to identify the cause of this increase ; nor can we say that our data and analyses either support or detract from the conclusions of Gardner et al . |
| 16 | Nor can we say that Megarians could have got nationals of other states to act as middlemen . |
| 17 | Nor can we appeal for explanation to the notion of Scaevola as provincial practitioner . |
| 18 | Briefly the requirements for short story are for fictional narrative based er narrative based scripts of two thousand one hundred to two thousand three hundred words do not use a factual accounts or anything longer or shorter on this , nor can we consider 60 Writers Monthly |
| 19 | And nor can we reduce the controversy to a straightforward clash between the new and the old orders . |
| 20 | Yet our higher interest rates can not be reduced ; nor can we reduce the exchange rate , because high interest rates are necessary to support the exchange rate . |
| 21 | Nor can we see our social security or employment records . |
| 22 | Nor can we know what Jesus was like , what he said and did by consulting the secular historians of the time . |
| 23 | Nor can we believe that were we to allow this application , potential future witnesses would be deterred from co-operating in investigations yet to come or the police feel inhibited from giving future reassurance as to the consequences of such co-operation in the self-same terms as at present . |
| 24 | We can not predict in advance the way in which a case will be decided , nor can we find any ex post rationality to explain why cases were categorised in different ways . |
| 25 | Yet we can not describe the contributions made to society purely in economic terms , nor can we operate prejudices against any sector of society because the people involved do not conform to our concept of a normal life . |
| 26 | Nor can we discount the possibility that some factor in the diet itself has harmful effects . |
| 27 | As you will know , because we were one of the finalists last year , we ca n't get into the finals of Britain in Bloom this year , nor can we win an award as a ‘ first time entry ’ in the Best Kept Village competition . |