Example sentences of "neither the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uganda is a developing country with neither the wealth nor the health service infrastructure to cope with the problem adequately . |
| 2 | Neither the airing cupboard nor the garden shed in winter are satisfactory . |
| 3 | ‘ Fred was here ’ , ‘ Mandy loves Greg ’ , ‘ Joey sucks ’ were inane , but neither the grammar nor the spelling could be faulted . |
| 4 | Also , and perhaps to a greater extent , a man is what he has smelt : later in the novel Raskolnikov gives the police-station smell as the reason for the suspicious circumstance of his fainting , which is neither the whole truth nor a straight lie but the blending of the guilty man with the Poison of the city . |
| 5 | Given the dispersed profusion of Pound 's criticism , neither the choice of what to reprint , nor the arrangement of it when chosen , can have been easy . |
| 6 | Neither the captive nor her would-be liberator wasted much time complaining : these were the rules of the game , and the two of them could only be patient . |
| 7 | As the warrior Solor he possessed neither the exotic glamour of Ruzimatov nor the romantic height of Cope — and a dispassionate viewer would admit that his turban gave him an unfortunately gnome-like appearance . |
| 8 | We have neither the resources nor the finance to launch a campaign to promote any particular aspect . |
| 9 | Peking officials now seek to excuse the June atrocities by claiming — all too credibly — that they had neither the resources nor the expertise to cope with the escalating civil disorder culminating in the Tiananmen Square assault . |
| 10 | Neither the US nor Japan raised its rates . |
| 11 | It reads : ‘ For as long as any rugby player living in the Republic of South Africa is the victim of racial discrimination under the laws of that country neither the WRU , nor any of its member clubs , will become involved in any matches organised under the authority of the SARB . |
| 12 | Neither the Bolivian government , nor its people benefit from the trade . |
| 13 | Last night 's resolution from the WRU committee read : ‘ For as long as any rugby player living in the Republic of South Africa is the victim of racial discrimination under the laws of that country , neither the WRU nor any of its member clubs will become involved in any matches organised under the authority of the SA Rugby Board . |
| 14 | Neither the very big and important financial futures business , which accounts for about 155 of the AFBD 's 400 members , nor the equally important oil market , is represented by the nine elected council members . |
| 15 | Judged on the facts , rather than the political rhetoric of both left and right , the present Government deserves neither the undying praise of the supporters of laissez-faire nor the unremitting invective of collectivists . |
| 16 | The motion has been tabled by the Gaullist Rassemblement pour la Republique ( RPR ) , but neither the liberal Union pour la Democratie Francaise ( UDF ) nor the centrist Union Democratique du Centre ( UDC ) will support them . |
| 17 | Western diplomats in Cairo said yesterday that Washington had asked Egypt to persuade the PLO to accept the exclusion of Palestinians from outside the Israeli-occupied territories in such a delegation , but they felt that neither the PLO nor Egypt was likely to accept this . |
| 18 | While the Polish church has always been a vital element in the Poles ' national identity , neither the Protestant nor the Catholic churches in Germany — much less East Germany — have ever had this function . |
| 19 | LORD JUSTICE RALPH GIBSON said that neither the plaintiff nor the defendant applied to the court at any time before judgment for an order under Order 5 , rule 5(2) appointing the defendant to represent all or any of the members of the management committee . |
| 20 | Early reports suggested that a note was found in Gryschenko 's pocket , though neither the police nor the Soviet Embassy in Montevideo would comment . |
| 21 | Informed sources say neither the more realistically-minded East German leaders nor the Russians believe that any sensible changes can be brought about so long as Mr Honecker , 77 , whose attitudes have become particularly rigid in recent months , is at the helm . |
| 22 | Neither the price nor any other characteristic of the transport system enters into it . |
| 23 | By November 1985 it became apparent that the real antagonists were neither the Westland company nor British Aerospace , but Michael Heseltine , as a vigorous champion of the European link , and Mrs Thatcher . |
| 24 | Neither the religion of the school chapel , nor the religion of a puritan church , satisfied . |
| 25 | It had large sales for a time in England and America , but it had neither the originality nor the power of his first book . |
| 26 | It should perhaps be added that , although neither the National Health Service nor the education system is exclusive in the sense of prohibiting private provision , the prestige and importance of independent provision is immensely greater in the field of education than in that of health . |
| 27 | Neither the religious nor the sexual anxiety in Eliot 's poems came simply from his reading , but that reading allowed him to give supra-individual expression to his personal pain ; he clothed his own cry in the language and mythology of great traditions and their interpretations , making it ‘ impersonal ’ . |
| 28 | Recent studies emphasize the different ways homo/sexuality was conceptualized in early modern England — a difference so considerable in fact that ‘ homosexuality ’ becomes anachronistic , since at that time there was neither the concept nor , exactly , the identity it signifies . |
| 29 | For Lacan desire itself becomes a splitting within the subject : ‘ desire is neither the appetite for satisfaction , nor the demand for love , but the difference resulting from the subtraction of the first from the second , the very phenomenon of their splitting ’ ( Lacan , Feminine Sexuality , 81 ) . |
| 30 | She had neither the energy nor the time to feel irritated ; instead she took out her pen again and reached for a sheet of the museum 's paper . |