Example sentences of "nor [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor are all bruises evidence of battering : I have vivid memories of my own older daughter 's accident-proneness in her earlier years ( she is possibly the only individual in the country to have given herself two black eyes by collision with a holy-water stoup ! ) and on one or two occasions her appearance would inevitably , today , have landed her on the " At risk " register . |
| 2 | Chairman and chief executive William Donaldson says : ‘ Not all the quality companies in the world are US companies , nor are all US accounting standards and practices necessarily the only way of approaching disclosure . ’ |
| 3 | Nor are all areas of public policy equally affected by such methods of policy-making ( Newman 1981 , Ch. 6 ) . |
| 4 | Not all news organizations display this pattern of behaviour , nor are all journalists mere interchangeable ciphers in the propaganda battle . |
| 5 | Nor are worries , fears , and guilt feelings the prerogative of the clean and educated and , what is more important , nor are all symptoms and signs referable to the genitalia the result of syphilis , or gonorrhoea , or even other , minor sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 6 | Nor are all assessments entirely reliable : Brooke Priory in Rutland owned goods valued at £52 and had no serious debts when it was dissolved in 1536 yet fourteen years earlier it had been assessed at a mere £13 6s 8d . |
| 7 | Nor are such species of thought or thought-modalities capable of existing independently of individual acts of thinking . |
| 8 | Nor are such stories necessarily false : life may deliberately imitate literature ( cp. p. 268 on Alexander and the Homeric heroes ) , and life may imitate life — Domitian reading Tiberius ' notebooks to get ideas . |
| 9 | Nor are evolutionary processes progressive or purposive ; the primitive single-celled creatures which were our early forebears were not possessed of a burning imperative , or driven by a mystic higher force , to evolve into sentient humans . |
| 10 | Nor are subjective meanings or rational choices independent of public social rules for doing the right or rational thing . |
| 11 | Nor are procedural controls likely to interfere unduly with risk taking . |
| 12 | Separate age-participation indices for universities only are not calculated , nor are separate indices for England and Wales ; but taking higher education as a whole , provisional data for the 1990-91 academic year show that 19.3 per cent . |
| 13 | Nor are glamorous stiletto shoes safe until you are at the bottom of the stairs ; do not attempt to come down wearing them as the danger is very real — Winston Churchill 's mother lost a leg that way . |
| 14 | Nor are Northern industries profiting : they have forfeited at least $30 billion in exports every year since the debt crisis erupted in 1982 . |
| 15 | Nor are social workers ' preconceptions changed by the experience of using residential placements . |
| 16 | ( A supplementary pension payable under the Supplementary Benefits scheme is not taxable , nor are voluntary payments made to her by you or other relatives , for which you can claim tax-free allowance . |
| 17 | Nor are voluntary payments made to the elderly by relatives liable to tax . |
| 18 | OEMed workstations from the likes of Mentor Graphics Corp , Valid Logic Inc , Control Data Systems Inc and Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG are also not included , nor are board-level components , multiuser systems that act as hosts to two or more terminals like the VAX 11/780 and IBM 9370 or parallel processing systems — or even the ICL plc DRS6000 . |
| 19 | Workstations that have been bought in OEM by the likes of Mentor Graphics Corp , Valid Logic Inc , Control Data Systems Inc and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG are also not included , nor are board-level components , multi-user systems that act as hosts to two or more terminals , such as the VAX-11/780 and IBM 9370 or parallel processing systems — or even the ICL Plc DRS 6000 . |
| 20 | Nor are any reservations about Hawking 's work itself : on this score , Soul is more incisive than Errol Morris ' movie , in which the director has substituted a somewhat bemused deference for the confident spirit of critical inquiry that animated its forerunner , The Thin Blue Line . |
| 21 | Nor are these problems of control resolved by the activities of specialist state auditing agencies , such as the French Cour des Comptes and similar bodies such as the Tribunal de Cuentas in Spain or the proposed function of the comptroller and auditor general in Britain . |
| 22 | Nor are these trends unique to the British system of socialized medicine . |
| 23 | Nor are these complexities sufficient to illustrate all the disturbances with which the economist and the merchant alike are forced to concern themselves . |
| 24 | Nor are these trips included in the most frequently consulted travel statistics , those in Transport Statistics Great Britain and Social Trends . |
| 25 | We are not impressed by such claims , nor are most commentators . |
| 26 | Nor are waste dumps the only things being shaken-up . |
| 27 | Nor are electric windows , central locking or even door handles ( you pull a body-coloured strap to release the catch ) . |
| 28 | Lord Knollys , chairman of BOAC , was not particularly pleased with these proposals , nor were other members of the Cabinet . |
| 29 | No special equipment was used for this nor were new rails substituted . |
| 30 | Nor were new ideas produced by the Labour government for the general elections of 1950 and 1951 . |