Example sentences of "nor is [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor is she a by-blow ; the old fellow was churchgoing , and had no such leanings . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Nor is he the kind to come north at all without a very sure chance of success . |
| 3 | The weakness is not financial , nor is it a weakness that comes from being ignored . |
| 4 | The consignment note is not a negotiable instrument , nor is it a document of title . |
| 5 | Ontological claims as made explicit in existential propositions , I shall maintain , involve certain claims about the world as a whole , and the world is not just a horizon of my " existential projects " ; nor is it a substance , or an aggregate of substances of this or that sort . |
| 6 | It is not a role which is subordinate to the Twelve — the hon. Gentleman was mistaken in that — but nor is it a function which will be prejudicial to NATO , which is at the core of our defence arrangements . |
| 7 | Nor is it a question of quality ; our technical standards are higher , our news programmes better illustrated , and our interviewers more competent , than in any other country . |
| 8 | Nor is it a question of our seeking a dispensation from the holy see to accede to some request locally . |
| 9 | This is not just another essay , nor is it a PhD thesis . |
| 10 | That forthright common sense does not come from the Conservative Newsline ; nor is it a quote from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State or my hon. Friend the Member for Enfield , Southgate ( Mr. Portillo ) . |
| 11 | Nor is it a place of refuge I want , among the women of a countess 's retinue . |
| 12 | It is not something that I have and you do not , or vice versa ; nor is it a commodity with which some people have the good fortune to be more generously endowed than others . |
| 13 | The final power to mention is not a power exclusive to the Court of Appeal , nor is it a power whose exercise disposes of the appeal . |
| 14 | It is not a strenuous walk , nor is it a walk to be hurried as there is so much to see . |
| 15 | Union resistance is no excuse for not making profit , nor is it an excuse for long legalistic job descriptions . |
| 16 | However , formulae such as " adjectives precede their nouns " do not take us beyond a very shallow level of linguistic description ; nor is it an improvement to find phrases such as " an attributive adjective " unless the description proceeds in some way to give an account of how a term like attributive may mean something more than a simple statement about formal grouping . |
| 17 | Nor is it an attempt to engage in extended analysis of Nizan 's texts as self-justifying autonomous products . |
| 18 | Nor is it an accident that the managerial and professional classes reproduce themselves in their own image as do the process and clerical groups . |
| 19 | Nor is it the case that the Federal Republic is using the issue of democratic accountability to drag its feet on EMU . |
| 20 | Nor is it the case that in saying ‘ I promise to meet you ’ I am merely giving expression to — or reporting or describing — an inward , mental act . |
| 21 | Nor is it the case that we in fact need a vehicle , a mythological story to carry our awareness of God , of the kind which has been fabricated in the west . |
| 22 | It perhaps ought to be pointed out here that an odd sentence is not necessarily meaningless , or incapable of conveying a message ; nor is it the case that such sentences never occur naturally . |
| 23 | Nor is it the case that large scale development will inevitably follow erm construction of those roads . |
| 24 | There is not space here to give a detailed account of all religions , nor is it the purpose of this text to do this . |
| 25 | ‘ Popular culture is neither , in a ‘ pure ’ sense , the popular traditions of resistance … nor is it the forms which are superimposed on and over them . |
| 26 | Nor is it the knowledge that Foxton , a haunt of foxes even in Saxon times , is a meeting place among others of one of the great Leicestershire Hunts , the Fernie , however important a cause that may be for assemblies of motorists in the county . |