Example sentences of "nor [vb base] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This is not surprising ; and we should not fall into the obvious trap of righteous indignation after the event nor judge them too harshly . |
| 3 | Recently launched titles — Today , the Independent and the News-on-Sunday — neither confirm the historical trend nor disprove it . |
| 4 | The EC can neither reverse current trends nor bring them to a halt . |
| 5 | Nor advocate it , indeed . ’ |
| 6 | Lots of people neither like nor trust him ; they still think of him as ‘ Slick Willie ’ . |
| 7 | But the words on the page did n't have the power to blot out the crack of hunting guns she was beginning to hear again inside her head , nor make her forget the sight of the blood trails on the hot plain . |
| 8 | I neither desire nor expect it . |
| 9 | We ought not to admire them when they put up their fists and fight nor mock them when they are afraid and tell them they must be a man . |
| 10 | On one level , it did not prevent some respondents expressing disparaging remarks about Catholics , nor dissuade them from giving opinions on controversial political issues . |
| 11 | ‘ The fact that we have now been blessed with two little ones must not blind us to our obligations , nor cause us to lower our standards . ’ |
| 12 | What you yourself have now chosen to tell us can neither undo that truth , nor absolve you from it . |
| 13 | His host had darted across the room presumably to bring him a drink and as he looked around he saw other doors , other lights — so this spectacle which did not shock him nor dismay him but which he did not wish to be a part of , might not be the only play . |
| 14 | His mother looked nervously at them as they came in long after dark — she was obdurately against the recalling of ‘ the bad old times ’ and she would neither ask them what they had seen nor let them tell her . |
| 15 | Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme , |
| 16 | Friendship networks so old and intimate that the differences and difficulties could collapse into wild mirth at any instant , or could flare into fights which , however vicious at the time , would not actually change anything nor prevent her and all her friends coming together again soon after , at identical but different pine kitchen tables , scattered in a loose lop-sided circle around central London . |
| 17 | The Aragonese were politely told by Edward ( in January 1283 ) that ‘ we are bound by kinship and by homage to the king of France , nor does it behove us to rebel against him in any way , nor to do anything to arouse his anger nor give him offence ’ . |
| 18 | The difference being , of course , that in those days the phenomenon of semi-literacy did not exist and readers of Disraeli 's or Thackeray 's novels would neither mistake them for the real world , nor read them to the exclusion of all real political texts . |
| 19 | John Major wants to take credit for the recovery without owning up to earlier mistakes — which means he can neither praise the ERM nor bury it . |
| 20 | Mercifully , the storyteller does not preach , nor tell us what to think . |
| 21 | This is a BBC BASIC reference manual , it is not intended to teach you BASIC nor tell you how the Z88 computer works . |
| 22 | There is no easy answer , for the Spirit blows where he wills , and man can neither prescribe to him nor control him . |
| 23 | There are three kinds of people : those who have sought God and found him , and these are reasonable and happy ; those who seek God and have not yet found him , and these are reasonable and unhappy ; and those who neither seek God nor find him , and these are unreasonable and unhappy . |
| 24 | More precisely , the general principle is that the court can neither extend the statute to a case not within its terms though perhaps within its purpose ( the casus omissus ) nor curtail it by leaving out a case that the statute literally includes , though it should not have . |
| 25 | This darkness and this cloud is betwixt thee and thy God , and telleth thee that thou mayest neither see him clearly by light of understanding , nor feel him in sweetness of love in thine affection , and therefore shape thee to bide in this darkness as long as thou mayest , crying after him that thou lovest … |
| 26 | However during 1625–8 Lanier was in Italy , buying pictures for his royal master , and after his return composed an indisputable recitative on the subject of Hero and Leander , ‘ Nor com'st thou yet , my slothful love ’ and a varied-strophe aria , ‘ No more shall meads ’ . |
| 27 | Given this , practitioners should neither blindly administer selective assessment procedures , nor dismiss them out of hand . |
| 28 | He does n't criticize the vice-president marketing 's expert judgement nor pretend he could do better himself . |
| 29 | Sons of louts grappled with the coffin in vain ; they could neither cram it in nor twist it out . |
| 30 | I would just like to say that I neither support nor oppose him . ’ |