Example sentences of "that neither [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In the person of Mary of Guise , it had been made abundantly clear that neither a French background nor an assertive Protestant aristocracy was a bar to the exercise of power and the acquisition of respect .
2 Towards the end of June , however , it was reported that neither the Irish government nor the Northern Ireland Social and Democratic Labour Party ( SDLP ) could agree to the wording of a statement which Brooke had planned to make and which was to include a consideration of the role to be played by the Irish government in devolution talks .
3 They found that neither the new port at Gdynia nor Free City status was of much use to them .
4 The struggle between the NGC and the PLO leadership was one of several important developments which persuaded the people in the West Bank and Gaza that neither the Arab states nor the PLO were capable of liberating them militarily or diplomatically and that it was pointless to continue to hope for a solution from the outside .
5 It is a principle of limited government based on the ideas that what was required was ‘ a properly equilibrated political system in which power was checked by power in such a way that neither the violent urges of kings , nor the arbitrariness of legislatures could impinge directly upon the individual ’ .
6 Instead it is far more likely to resemble organizations that neither the practicing manager nor the management scholar pays much attention to today : the hospital , the university , the symphony orchestra .
7 The Bishop quotes , with approval , G. Bennett on spider webs : It is impossible for one who has watched the work for many hours to have any doubt that neither the present spiders of this species nor their ancestors were ever the architects of the web or that it could conceivably have been produced step by step through random variation ; it would be as absurd to suppose that the intricate and exact proportions of the Parthenon were produced by piling together bits of marble .
8 Most importantly , however , we must recognise that neither the individualistic man nor the collectivist man of the philosophers is truly Christian .
9 The user should close down the LIFESPAN system if it is running and make sure that neither the Hard Copy facility nor the Validation facility are running .
10 But from this broken and scattered group of men and women came the startling message of the cross and resurrection with a conviction and power that neither the Jewish authorities nor the Roman rulers could stem .
11 The Profitboss ensures that neither the aspiring Fenton from Fleet Sales nor the experienced Carmen from Marketing Services are denied the opportunity to compete for a promotion to Divisional Sales Director .
12 I was deeply disappointed that neither the hon. Member for Tooting , in a 40-minute speech , nor the hon. Member for Hammersmith , except in an intervention , found it possible to acknowledge the contribution made by housing associations .
13 The fact that so few of the Crown 's powers were redefined in 1688 – 9 meant that neither the old conflicts between Court and Country , nor those between advocates of limited versus strong , autocratic monarchy , had reached any satisfactory resolution .
14 The lesson said that neither the Secret Intelligence Service nor the Security Service advertised themselves .
15 To meet this point I think one must say that Bentham 's view was , in effect , that a right action must not only do more good than harm , but must also be such that neither the particular good it does , nor any other comparable good which might have substituted for it , could have been achieved at less cost in terms of harm done .
16 Thorpe J. having held that ‘ there is no doubt at all that J. is a child of sufficient understanding to make an informed decision , ’ I shall assume that , so far as the common law is concerned , Lord Scarman would have decided that neither the local authority nor W. 's aunt , both of whom had parental responsibilities , could give consent to treatment which would be effective in the face of W. 's refusal of consent .
17 John Major claimed that neither the British public nor the international community would support the move .
18 In fact , it seems that neither the initial conditions nor the values of the parameters in the theory are arbitrary but that they are somehow chosen or picked out very carefully .
19 Similarly , modification of the secondary amine ( L703605 ) or the N- benzyl substituent ( L705084 ) resulted in the same pattern of relative affinities for the mutant recep- tors as CP 96345 ( Fig. 2 a ) , suggesting that neither the secondary amine nor the substituted benzyl moiety interacts with His197 .
20 ( 3 ) For the purposes of the valuation referred to in subsection ( 1 ) above , it shall be assumed — ( a ) that the landlord in default is selling his interest on the open market to a willing buyer ; ( b ) that neither the residential occupier nor any member of his family wishes to buy ; and ( c ) that it is unlawful to carry out any substantial development of any of the land in which the landlord 's interest subsists or to demolish the whole or part of any building on that land .
21 The final resolution adopted by the congress stressed that the 1980s had shown that neither the free market nor central planning had been able to alleviate unemployment and poverty .
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