Example sentences of "nor be [pers pn] 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 is he the kind to come north at all without a very sure chance of success . |
| 3 | Nor is it the case that the Federal Republic is using the issue of democratic accountability to drag its feet on EMU . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nor is it the case that large scale development will inevitably follow erm construction of those roads . |
| 8 | There is not space here to give a detailed account of all religions , nor is it the purpose of this text to do this . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Nor was it the case that Franco made deliberately excessive demands , in the knowledge that the Axis would be unwilling to meet them . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Nor was it the mind alone . |
| 16 | The Holy Spirit was not to be confined to the narrow straits of Jewish respectability , nor was he the perquisite of the Church leadership . |
| 17 | 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 . |