Example sentences of "nor [was/were] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Native peoples were not simply savages unable to pit their wits against a superior enemy , nor were they the Russians ' dupes . |
| 2 | Nor was there the tort of interference with contract — work was being done ( theoretically at least ) just as the NCB wanted . |
| 3 | Nor was it the case that Franco made deliberately excessive demands , in the knowledge that the Axis would be unwilling to meet them . |
| 4 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 5 | It was n't the weather threatening grey above our heads and racing in vicious squalls over the distant col , nor was it the task that lay before us . |
| 6 | And it was not only that he had not got what he had hoped for , nor was it the jealousy which made him feel unsure . |
| 7 | Nor was it the mind alone . |
| 8 | The Holy Spirit was not to be confined to the narrow straits of Jewish respectability , nor was he the perquisite of the Church leadership . |
| 9 | Nor do I for a moment suppose that anyone there recognized him , nor was he the sort of author who basked in that kind of admiration . |