Example sentences of "nor be it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor is it possible to say with confidence how much of the increase is due to melting glaciers and how much to thermal expansion . |
| 2 | All objects , such as trees , stones , and books , whether in their tangible or visible aspects , are such that their ‘ esse [ their mode of existence ] is percipi [ to be perceived ] , nor is it possible they should have any existence , out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them ’ . |
| 3 | Nor is it possible , practical or necessary to recreate precisely those conditions which were only achieved after decades , in the old land meadows , of a specialist system of grazing and mowing supported only by an annual dressing of fold-yard manure . |
| 4 | Nor is it possible to have a membrane with pores of just the right size to allow in needed substances from outside but not let essential substances escape , if only because the cell may need to retain some small molecules , and admit some larger ones . |
| 5 | Nor is it possible to imagine the Regent allowing such a hideous series of plates to be made to commemorate his coronation , though , to be fair , even Regency designers might have had trouble making an elegant plate incorporating a photographic portrait of the old reprobate . |
| 6 | Nor is it possible to say what percentage of cases might be attributable to food , because nobody has even attempted to find out . |
| 7 | Nor is it possible for the sufferer to ‘ snap out of it ’ as is often suggested with varying degrees of tactfulness . |
| 8 | Nor is it possible to capture one 's experience by the idea of a bare subject . |
| 9 | One will not arrive at the concept ‘ mass ’ through observation alone , however closely one scrutinizes colliding billiard-balls , weights on springs , orbiting planets , etc. , nor is it possible to teach others the meaning of mass merely by pointing to such events . |
| 10 | It is never possible to be certain what the situation would have been in the absence of any such policy nor is it possible to know what the outcome of a different policy might have been . |
| 11 | For instance in general , it is not possible for most goods to trade present amounts of them for future amounts nor is it possible to make such contracts conditional on some outside events like the weather . |
| 12 | But tritium is not easy to come by , nor is it cheap . |
| 13 | Such an ad hoc approach is not conducive to efficient use of present resources nor is it appropriate for long-term planning . |
| 14 | Nor is it appropriate to call them ‘ characteristic activities ’ . |
| 15 | It is not possible nor is it appropriate to ignore behaviour that involves breaking toys , destroying furniture , or hurting others . |
| 16 | Nor is it appropriate to exclude all that is so described . |
| 17 | Just as it is not illegal to own porn , nor is it illegal to be lesbian or gay ( unless you are a man under 21 ) : but the rights of both porn and lesbian and gay people to exist are strictly limited . |
| 18 | The provision of single-sex schools is not unlawful ; nor is it unlawful to discriminate on the grounds of sex in relation to admission to a single-sex school . |
| 19 | Nor is it uncommon for there to be such poor recording of achievement ( as well as diagnosis of weaknesses ) that a teacher has relatively little on which to build from the child 's teacher of the previous year . |
| 20 | Nor is it uncommon . |
| 21 | Nor is it impossible that she believed this legend . |
| 22 | Nor is it impossible that bands of laeti or gentiles were settled in some , if not all , during the late fourth century , but unfortunately the relevant chapter of the Notitia Dignitatum , which listed these barbarian recruits to the Roman army in Britain , is missing . |
| 23 | Nor is it good news for the majority of people who already own-especially those who became first-time buyers over the past four years and whose complete capital has been wiped out : more than a million such people are probably technically bankrupt but need not admit it so long as they keep paying their mortgage . |
| 24 | Nor is it self-justifying and self-sustaining . |
| 25 | This does not mean that faith itself is irrational , nor is it mere emotional ‘ feeling ’ . |
| 26 | Nor is it due to black people 's possession of special gifts or talents which equip them more satisfactorily for certain sporting events . |
| 27 | Faith is thoroughly existential , but the moment-by-moment experience is never autonomous , nor is it awash in time , for memory serves to link it to the past . |
| 28 | It is not now certain that he will be invited to join the tour next summer , nor is it certain that he would accept if he were . |
| 29 | It is not now certain that he will be invited to join the tour next summer , nor is it certain that he would accept if he were . |
| 30 | Nor is it certain that the reported associations between long term outcome and exposure to phenylalanine accumulation are entirely ‘ cause and effect . ’ |