Example sentences of "nor [modal v] the " in BNC.

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1 Evidence can be freely taken by agents acting on behalf of foreign litigants ; but no compulsory processes may be used , nor may the evidence be taken on oath .
2 Such studies do not give a true reflection of population needs , nor may the clinical indices used to predict survival or estimates of prognosis be applicable in the wider population of patients with severe acute renal failure .
3 It is unnecessary for the suspicion to be reasonable ; nor must the person be suspected of having committed an offence .
4 the chosen site must not interfere with or reduce the value of scenic and recreation areas , nor must the habitats of rare or otherwise important plant and animal species be disturbed ;
5 Nor must the period of time in question be continuous .
6 No one should underestimate these problems , but nor should the waste and unfairness of existing conditions be overlooked .
7 Herron 's pop collages should not be missed , nor should the opportunity to be guided by computers through his latest projects .
8 Nor should the West be excessively high-minded now in condemning a regime which once served its anti-Soviet purposes so well .
9 The argument , then , is that the causing of death by bad driving should not be regarded as a significant aggravating factor , but nor should the non-causing of death or injury be regarded as a significant mitigating factor .
10 Nor should the American example be forgotten .
11 Nor should the issues and problems examined here be allowed to overshadow the fact that 15,000 people in the UK are experiencing great satisfaction , involvement and a sense of achievement within their communities through their work in a Citizens Advice Bureau .
12 Nor should the other partner feel they are the object of the charity of some ‘ big benevolent bread winner ’ .
13 Nor should the ecological impacts of these measures be forgotten , for the unsealing of asphalt surfaces has lead to increases in area of trees , shrubs and plants .
14 The vines must not be suffering from any disease , nor should the leaves be those which have been distorted by herbicides .
15 Nor should the continuing need for sexual relationships be overlooked .
16 Nor should the novelty be exaggerated of abolitionists advancing petitions from a relatively popular base and on grounds of the general interest in 1788 — relatively popular because calculation from Drescher 's estimate of 60,000 signatures in 1788 suggests an average of 600 signatures per petition and , with Manchester producing 10,639 , some were clearly much smaller than the average .
17 Nor should the media habit of personalizing events and trends be taken too seriously .
18 Nor should the similarities in the broader dimensions of the problem of youth employment escape our attention .
19 Nor should the temporary protection which the survey vessel was acquiring by the signalling process extend to any other object in contiguous space .
20 The Club will make the necessary arrangements , but no-one is allowed to go into town before clearing immigration nor should the skipper or any of the crew visit immigration as they will be told , in no uncertain terms , to return to the club immediately .
21 Nothing should be allowed to disturb the emotional flow , nor should the interest be given the chance to lapse .
22 Absolute word-for-word matching of ideals and practices can not be expected nor should the manager slavishly seek that .
23 Nor should the bureaucratization of society as a whole be confused with the emergence of the bureaucracy as a ruling class .
24 The fact that UK-based professional advisors are used should not affect matters , nor should the fact that trust accounts are prepared in the United Kingdom .
25 Nor should the transexual be confused with the transvestite who simply dresses as the opposite sex .
26 He suggests the army could no longer be used to drain off the unemployable proletariat by conscription , nor could the newly independent colonies be used to dump the troublesome of society ( see also Hughes 1987 ) .
27 Nor could the courts cope , and there would be a deterioration in the public 's perception of the police as a result of the disjuncture with lay conceptions of legality .
28 Nor could the Reverend Baron but he left immediately he heard in May that the Grand Duke of Tuscany had abdicated : that , he vowed , was the clearest possible indication of open war and he wanted to be away .
29 Nor could the vaunted irrigation scheme be described as an unqualified success .
30 Nor could the academic organization of the schools remain as rudimentary as it had been : communication and management would not just ‘ happen ’ in schools of a thousand pupils or more , and the stream of curriculum innovation needed to be carefully channelled — especially in a system where each school enjoyed considerable freedom in choosing patterns of study and teaching methods .
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