Example sentences of "nor do it [vb infin] the " in BNC.

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1 Nor did it prevent the preservation of this category in the language of special education many years after its legal obliteration , in the acronym MLD ( moderate learning difficulties ) , used in many of the same contexts for many of the same purposes , but without , as yet , the abusive tone that came to be associated with its predecessor .
2 Nor did it want the more advanced economic state of the West Bank , which was itself backward compared with the coastal areas of Palestine , to continue .
3 Nor did it want the return of a population that would dissent from the Zionist identity of the state and threaten it demographically .
4 The debate had no practical importance , nor did it influence the direction and methods of further research .
5 This did not stop them from associating together nor did it stop the spread of a vague common ideology .
6 Nor did it remove the old ones .
7 Nor did it remove the niggling suspicion that Isabel was hiding something .
8 Nor did it provide the detailed information on local labour markets , particularly at the occupational level , that would have been necessary to make a fuller judgement .
9 Nor did it escape the notice of other critics of the Association that a handbill , lengthily entitled " A Dialogue between Tom and Harry on the Duties of Seamen and the Just and Equitable Rewards for their Services " , was in practice nothing more or less than a statement of union policy on bargaining with shipowners and published in this form only to avoid the appearance that the Standard was more than an innocent friendly society .
10 Nor did it impress the Arab states , which pointed out that if Israel was able to absorb hundreds of thousands of Jews it could certainly absorb more than 100,000 Palestinian returnees ; or the United States , which did not think the Israeli offer ‘ provide[d] a suitable basis for contributing to solution of Arab refugee question . ’
11 Nor did it support the ‘ geographic fiction ’ that evidence to be produced in the United States was not ‘ abroad ’ even though it was in fact located in a foreign country or must be gathered or otherwise prepared abroad .
12 The conquest of Egypt and Cyrenaica as far west as Euesperides ( not far from Benghazi ) by the Persian Kambyses did not entail the overthrow of the Battiads , nor did it interrupt the cultural traffic of Dorian Cyrene with Ionian Attica .
13 Yet the statute did not in practice provide the absolute ban which it seemed to promise , nor did it deprive the church of acquisitions .
14 Educators might argue , as did Alexander Graham Bell , that although sign language could be a vehicle for thought it was not the ‘ right ’ vehicle , nor did it produce the ‘ right thoughts ’ .
15 This does not prevent members from seeking an injunction to restrain the act from being done , nor does it affect the liability of the directors for such an act ( s. 35(1) — ( 3 ) CA ) .
16 Nor does it want the German tail to wag the European dog .
17 Tolerance does not blind a man to the imperfections or faults of a religion , nor does it blur the distinction between religion and irreligion , but it does deliver a man from fanaticism with regard to his own faith .
18 conclude that the data from the studies of internal validity show that the test does not adequately integrate the eleven subtests , nor does it explain the relationship between the subtests or between subtest performance and other relevant behaviour .
19 This in no way underestimates the contribution of families to the welfare of their members : nor does it diminish the importance of care in the community .
20 Intense searches have revealed no optical or other signal from the partner , nor does it eclipse the quasar .
21 Nor does it contemplate the knock-on consequences for Labour ministers of attempting to implement their programme while rebuilding the governmental machine .
22 Nor does it accommodate the traditional costumes or a tired , very conventional acting style .
23 Nor does it resemble the bravura footing of Kitri in the Don Quixote pas de deux or the passages in Ashton 's Ondine where his ballerina appears to be floating through water .
24 ( Unlike some birds , it does not dive vertically into the water , nor does it pursue the fish while under water ; kingfishers are plunge-divers , who go rapidly straight to the target . )
25 This state of affairs neither eliminates bureaucratic in-fighting nor does it rid the system of mid-ranking officials attached to interests and issues and skilled at maintaining their prerogatives .
26 What the report does not mention is whether MI6 received any overtures from the KGB to exchange Blake , nor does it consider the possibility that the KGB might want to free an agent who served it so well .
27 In the words of the Ministry : ‘ This is not a sufficiently rigorous restoration , nor does it respect the monument ’ .
28 The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion .
29 Nor does it sanitise the violence .
30 Wearing 175/60 Continental tyres , it has nothing like the grip of a 205 GTi , nor does it have the Peugeot 's steering feel .
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