Example sentences of "nor [was/were] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elections were not the only occasions when those below the level of the elite could give voice to their political inclinations , nor were they the only points of contact between the world " out-of-doors " and that of Westminster . |
| 2 | The moral discourses of purity feminism were neither a reactionary barrier to feminist progress nor were they the simple expression of militant feminist consciousness . |
| 3 | Nor were they the same top three from one decade to the next : groups such as Kemsley disappeared , and the market share of a survivor such as Associated Newspapers fluctuated quite widely . |
| 4 | Nor was there the usual rise in ammonia or nitrite levels , as there had been in the past . |
| 5 | Nor was there the slightest need to tell her of the thoughts that were uppermost in his mind . |
| 6 | To reiterate , the purity movement was neither a conservative barrier to women 's sexual freedom , nor was it the passive vehicle for an emergent feminist consciousness . |
| 7 | Desktop Publisher certainly was n't the first newsletter to be produced using computers , many titles are word processed , nor was it the first publication to be desktop published , that honour probably goes to The Wordsmith , but we were the first newsletter to specialise on desktop publishing ! |
| 8 | Nor was it the traditional and risible gaps between the spiritual duties of the clergy and their worldly preoccupations . |
| 9 | Nor was it the only deduction : there were charges for seaming the stockings , for use of a corner of the master knitter 's workshop , for needles , candles , oil , coals and for the expenses involved in collecting in work . |
| 10 | Nor was it the only way in which he was inadequate as a Christian ruler . |
| 11 | Nor was it the disturbing rumours that by December 26 the country could be in the grip of a new and particularly alien ‘ Made in Taiwan ’ midwinter flu . |
| 12 | ‘ It was n't technology that doomed nuclear power in the US , nor was it the dedicated obstructionist tactics of the anti-nuclear forces , effective though they were . |
| 13 | Nor was I the innocent bystander taking his lunchtime beer in his local , to whom Shmekov slipped the information , two hours before the police grabbed him , that altered the Alliance 's whole strategy towards the opposing ’ powers in the Southern Apex . |
| 14 | Marx was not the first to denounce the wretched condition of the working class in capitalist countries , nor was he the first to point out the apparent anomaly that those who produced the wealth , the workers , were the poorest while those who were apparently useless drones , the capitalists and their associates , were the richest . |
| 15 | Nor was he the only imperialist of his day of whom it might have been said , as one of his biographers said of him , that he had ‘ a genius for backing into the limelight ’ . |
| 16 | Nor was he the only one to see hope amid chaos . |
| 17 | Nor was he the only one to do so . |