Example sentences of "nor can [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present British single mothers can not pass on their citizenship to children born abroad , nor can married women pass on their citizenship to children from abroad with non-UK fathers . |
| 2 | Nor can mosaic pavements offer any guidance , since their themes are commonly drawn from classical mythology . |
| 3 | Nor can potential school achievement or social competence be directly linked to levels of sight : pupils with little or no sight have shown that they can achieve well in school , be independent and happy , since the interaction of the child and the learning environment is as significant for them in helping to achieve these goals as it is for any pupil in school . |
| 4 | No one can represent fully the lives of those met during a case study ; nor can full justice be done to the complexity and the range of issues , interpretations and concerns experienced by each individual . |
| 5 | Nor can instrumental considerations validate consent to the authority of reasonably just governments . |
| 6 | Nor can local suspicions that the incidence of cancer is unusually high be calmed or confirmed . |
| 7 | Researchers themselves are bound to adopt one social construction of the phenomena they are investigating rather than another and however objective their methodology , the chosen perspective can not be completely neutral , nor can social research be entirely value free . |
| 8 | Nor can this trend be understood simply on the basis of the preferences expressed by older workers . |
| 9 | Nor can any athlete look forward to a long and healthy life if they use drugs to aid their performance . |
| 10 | Gregory prefaced his great work , the Decem Libri Historiarum , with the following statement : The cultivation of liberal letters is declining or rather dying in the cities of Gaul , since some things that are good and some that are wicked are taking place , and the savagery of the barbarians is on the loose ; the anger of the kings is sharp ; the churches are under threat from the heretics , and are protected by the catholics ; the faith of Christ burns in some and is cold in others ; those same churches are enriched by the devout and empoverished by the perfidious ; nor can any grammarian skillful in the art of dialectic be found to depict this in prose or verse . |
| 11 | He must or must not prosecute this man or that , nor can any police authority tell him so , the responsibility is on him , he is answerable to the law alone . |
| 12 | Nor can any statement be made as to the moral implications of any sexual or quasi-sexual act except from standpoints which must themselves be debatable . |
| 13 | Nor can any distinction be drawn on the basis that there were three persons involved whereas Chapman v. Honig was a ‘ two-party ’ case , for a true ‘ three-party ’ case only arises where A acts in a manner which is primarily unlawful in relation to B with the purpose of injuring C. In Acrow there was no B. |
| 14 | Nor can true navigation be achieved only by ‘ compass orientation ’ . |
| 15 | Nor can generalised criticism be justified if it is based on one isolated incident . |