Example sentences of "nor [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That feeling was strange , she resisted it , she knew that it was absurd as well as amoral , but in the end she told herself that she could not command her feelings : she was no longer able to torment herself with thoughts of their wars nor to enjoy their celebrations , because she was filled with the conviction that none of it was her concern . |
| 2 | With neither dread nor fear … |
| 3 | Those who say that they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear him , do not in fact believe in him but in those who have taught them that God exists . |
| 4 | The machine seems to need neither worship nor fear to make it run ; it is built on rational philosophical principles and sustained by money , labour , steam and steel . |
| 5 | For the WEA , Green , Elvin , and Jacques could not adequately counter the authenticity of these claims nor deny the earlier co-operation in developments in all three counties . |
| 6 | We can not escape our past , nor deny our feelings , which are so often less rational than our intellects . |
| 7 | ‘ I neither confirm nor deny anything . ’ |
| 8 | From the practical standpoint , it is often claimed that there is never enough time to write objectives ; that their use removes the spontaneity from teaching ; and finally that from a clinical point of view they are inappropriate , as much of the teaching is ‘ crisis , teaching and can not be foreseen nor planned . |
| 9 | He could neither move nor think , as if all power had at a stroke been cut off from both body and brain . |
| 10 | When death struck close to home it was not easy to accept such counsel , nor to see God 's design . |
| 11 | She then signed a form provided by the hospital , which was neither read nor explained to her , signifying her refusal of consent to blood transfusions . |
| 12 | They will neither win friends nor influence people if they continue on their present course . |
| 13 | What it has not been able to do is provide a coherent explanation of the variations it often describes , nor account for changes in mores and consciousness . |
| 14 | He has not spoken to the child 's mother , Monika Kocanek , nor made any attempt to see the baby since her birth . |
| 15 | Since Brusilov had not concentrated his troops in any one area , nor made tactical probes , and since the artillery bombardment lasted so short a time , the Austrians had no inkling of his intentions . |
| 16 | Now one of the comments of Pausanias is that before a battle the Celts neither employed a Greek soothsayer nor made sacrifices according to national custom — if indeed , as Pausanias pointedly remarks ( 10.21.1 ) , there is such a thing as Celtic divination . |
| 17 | Sir John died seven years ago , but in all that time Lavinia has not increased Benedict 's allowance , as she might well have done , nor made any provision for his accommodation , other than saying that he might live at Merchiston Lodge if he chose . ’ |
| 18 | Recently 55 more trade unionists have been arrested , yet those who were detained immediately after the 30 June coup have been neither interrogated , charged nor given an explanation of the reason why they are being held . |
| 19 | Temple had neither converted him , nor given him his vocation . |
| 20 | No audit opinion is required at the interim stage and the commissaires aux comptes and the auditors have neither carried out an audit nor given an audit opinion . |
| 21 | They came in and kissed her dutifully , with affection neither taken nor given ; Lilian , Clare , Olivia . |
| 22 | If an Act of Parliament says that A ( who may be a minister or a commission or a local authority or an individual ) shall be the person to settle certain specified questions and that there shall be neither appeal to nor review by any other body or person ( including the courts ) , then A's decisions are unchallengeable so long as ( a ) it is A , not another , who decides , ( b ) A decides those specified questions and not others and ( c ) A does not act in bad faith or with similar impropriety . |
| 23 | But Central Office could exert only informal pressure , since it could neither bully nor bribe its local supporters , and this is exactly what Steel-Maitland set out to do through his district agents . |
| 24 | Significantly , since that evening 's arrests the problem has neither recurred at the location nor developed elsewhere within the controlled Parking Scheme . |
| 25 | This neither precludes his fishing nor guarantees it . |
| 26 | Suzanne , who had neither moved nor altered her expression , continued to jangle by the window in her private world . |
| 27 | Opened is not a stylistic alternative to shut , nor bang to click , because they describe a different event from that which the author chose to describe . |
| 28 | I thought of bringin' it back 'ome with me , but it could n't have stood t' trip , four weeks on me shoulder back to 'Ampton Roads , an' me not able to dress nor undress neither . ’ |
| 29 | Thus , N-Oct 3 acts as a weak transcriptional activator under these assay conditions whereas the N-Oct 5 proteins were inert , neither activating transcription by themselves nor inhibiting N-Oct 3 action . |
| 30 | Lord , for your sake , and not for the sake of those around us , may we not falter nor make empty plans but work to share your love and grace . |