Example sentences of "neither the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The underlying position remains one in which most of the rural population i.e. three quarters of the total , is able to feed itself adequately , but has neither the surplus labour nor the technology to make big strides in productivity . |
| 32 | He had neither the patience nor method to understand properly how they worked and he would not bow to any instruction other than his own perusal of certain manuals and textbooks . |
| 33 | In any case , neither the Germanic nor the Slavonic mode of production was of much significance for Marx 's and Engels 's later work , and the same is true for most Marxist studies . |
| 34 | With the exception of Levin 's extended analysis of film , neither the products nor any specific agitations of the Situationists and their epigones are subject to critical reassessment . |
| 35 | It needs neither the approbation of ace tuner Alpina nor the motivation of an M-power badge to crack 140mph — 141–3mph on the Millbrook bowl is around 10mph faster than the old 325i could manage — or sprint from rest to 60mph in a sizzling 7.3secs . |
| 36 | The parents had neither the character nor the love to make coping and organisation tenable . |
| 37 | All the royal residences have magnificent gardens and he had grown up appreciating them , but they are tended by gardeners : neither the Queen nor the Duke of Edinburgh is interested . |
| 38 | She had neither the patience nor the inclination . |
| 39 | Neither the referee , who booked him , nor Uefa accepted Smith 's version of the event . |
| 40 | It stretched neither the company nor the audience . |
| 41 | Neither the Maldives nor Venice have land higher than two metres above today 's mean sea level . |
| 42 | Neither the National Trust , who own it , nor the County Listing Department , nor Nikolaus Pevsner can furnish one with anything more than technical descriptions . |
| 43 | It is sad to report that neither the Transport Department nor the Environment Department ( they made a joint decision in favour of the trench on the grounds of cost ) made any attempt to value Twyford Down , its inhabitants and the enjoyment gained now and in the future from them . |
| 44 | It was neither the sensible shopping-basket that men bought for their wives , nor the flashy jobs rich men bought for their mistresses . |
| 45 | The contents of Duncan Sandys ' White Paper were judiciously leaked during March ; a standard Whitehall ploy based on the well-founded assumption that neither the market nor the media like to be taken by surprise . |
| 46 | Iain MacLeod appreciated that Britain , in the post-Suez era , had neither the political will nor the military resources to slow the tide of colonial emanicipation ; and so he was prepared , with Macmillan 's whole-hearted support , to accelerate the process , despite opposition from the right wing of the Conservative Party . |
| 47 | Admiral Mountbatten and Professor Zuckerman had visited the United States in the autumn of 1959 and had been shown the massive underground silos of the Titan intercontinental ballistic missiles , and had concluded , quite rightly , that Britain had neither the resources nor the need to enter the land-based ICBM league . |
| 48 | His letter says that : ‘ So long as neither the lives of American citizens nor our troops are subjected to immediate danger and the international economic embargo continues to exert substantial pressure against Iraq … offensive military action by the United States unwisely risks massive loss of life . ’ |
| 49 | Neither the political right nor left wants to tell what happened from the 1920s through 1945 . |
| 50 | This may be partly because neither the president nor the high command is confident that parts of the army might not rebel . |
| 51 | But neither the Ecclesiastical Courts nor the Common Law Courts are well adapted to settle the numerous conflicting rights of creditors , legatees , and next of kin ; trusts are often involved , and during the last two centuries the most effectual and usual method of asserting a claim to or against the estate of a deceased person is to get the estate administered in Chancery . |
| 52 | But the total package of reductions convinced neither the public nor the unions . |
| 53 | As the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons had demonstrated , however , neither the Government nor the health authorities had accurate information on the exact numbers employed or any sensible means of controlling numbers . |
| 54 | But from this broken and scattered group of men and women came the startling message of the cross and resurrection with a conviction and power that neither the Jewish authorities nor the Roman rulers could stem . |
| 55 | She was brainy — that is , she had her head stuffed with facts , but she had neither the intelligence nor judgement to interpret their significance and relate them to the world . |
| 56 | Hence neither the relative nor the existing absolute dates were totally satisfactory . |
| 57 | ‘ Neither the harps nor the crowns amused , nor |
| 58 | I am sure neither the record company nor Symbols And Instruments share my view , but wait until the mass media gets its claws into the return of the underground . |
| 59 | There was little structure to the market , Welsh Lamb Enterprise was seeking new markets but with no control over supplies , producer groups were operating mainly as dealers , and producers got neither the information they needed nor the returns . |
| 60 | He had neither the will nor the courage to stir . |