Example sentences of "nor was it the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor was it the case that Franco made deliberately excessive demands , in the knowledge that the Axis would be unwilling to meet them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Nor was it the mind alone . |