Example sentences of "[adj] nor [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They reported directly to the ruler they represented , often using their own cyphers : it was quite possible for neither the foreign nor the war minister ever to see their reports . |
| 2 | Linkages may be either backward , when the purchasing firm , which need be neither foreign nor an exporter , buys what it needs locally , or forward , when the seller firm supplies a local firm with what it needs to produce something else . |
| 3 | Neither the old nor the new analogy is logically derived ; the former is rooted in habit , the latter emerges by a flash of insight . |
| 4 | But neither the old nor the new law provides tenure for the two lower academic grades . |
| 5 | Something have you heard Of Hamlet 's transformation , so call it , Sith nor th'exterior nor the inward man Resembled that it was . |
| 6 | No doubt they were helped by the government 's needs for revenue in the period of the wars against Louis XIV , but neither this nor the nominal prohibition of textile imports from India in 1720 caused the Company or the Indian textile trade much trouble . |
| 7 | Thank goodness neither Keininger nor The Londsdale Clock Co. of Swaffham , their agents , were guilty of the luxury of being rude to their customer . |
| 8 | The assessment did not contribute to the student 's final classification , and whether and how it might do so was neither clear nor a welcome issue in the colleges . |
| 9 | In the case of Bilsthorpe , the Secretary of State 's excuse for lack of Government support was that the project was neither commercial nor a demonstration project . |
| 10 | It was moved by Francis Maginn who told his audience that in almost every state of America , in addition to a National Society , there was an Association of deaf mutes organised and officered by the prominent deaf themselves , whereas in the United Kingdom , where there were about twenty thousand deaf , there was neither a regional nor a national organisation . |
| 11 | Sadly , neither Labour nor the Liberal Democrats will produce such an amendment because , fatally , both leave reform of legal services to their lawyers , the last people who should be in charge . |
| 12 | Neither the Labour nor the Liberal Party had won , but it was clear that the Conservatives had lost- and in an election called by them on an issue of their own choice . |
| 13 | On a tour of Essex , the Liberal Democrat leader , Mr. Ashdown , said neither the Labour nor the Conservative manifestos offers any hope for the future . |
| 14 | Liberal Democrat Peter Allen has accused his fellow candidates of mud-slinging and claims neither Labour nor the Conservatives have offered a vision of the future . |
| 15 | But neither the mean systolic nor the mean diastolic blood pressure varied with parity . |
| 16 | She could never forget how she had swung the boy , a little thing of six or seven ; that nor the heat ; as all the purr of a pussy cat , the linger of her hand . |
| 17 | However widely one takes ‘ thought ’ , it is neither self-evident nor a fact of experience that we are always actually thinking . |
| 18 | On the future of the party , Gorbachev declared that the CPSU " has neither the political nor the moral right to absolve itself from the responsibility for the destiny of the reform programme , to shirk its role and to retire to the wayside of the social process " . |
| 19 | We can believe that Roman justice had many advantages : but there is copious evidence that the prestige of the papal courts was not the sole nor the main motive of many litigants . |
| 20 | It was neither an authorised person under Chapter III of the Act of 1986 nor an exempted person under Chapter IV . |
| 21 | On the other hand , the coastline 's area is zero , so neither a one-dimensional nor a two-dimensional picture is appropriate , and in fact the way in which the length increases with resolution suggests a dimension D of about 1.2 The mathematics of sets of points with fractional dimensionality was developed in the early years of this century , but associated geometric objects were considered as ‘ pathological ’ and not corresponding to anything in Nature , Mandelbrot 's massive and single-minded achievement has been to convert this abstract formalism into a flourishing branch of applied mathematics , in three ways . |
| 22 | Neither Catherine the Great 's Commission on Popular Schools of 1782 nor the education statutes of 1804 and 1828 nor the foundation of elementary schools by the Ministry of State Properties and the Holy Synod had succeeded to any great extent in promoting the cause of peasant literacy . |
| 23 | The company argues that since it is neither government-owned nor a sole supplier , it should be free to make any purchasing decisions it sees fit , without having to pay the Commission 's 3% tariff penalty against telecommunications equipment from outside the Community . |
| 24 | Obviously is neither a scalar nor the component of a four-vector : if it were the first it would remain constant under the Lorentz transformation to S ' if it were the second the change would be linear in γ . |
| 25 | No report has fully established the relationship between the gastrin concentration and the trophic effect on the enterochromaffin like cell , however , as neither the minimal nor the maximal effective gastrin concentration with regard to the trophic effect on the enterochromaffin like cell has been assessed . |
| 26 | He was neither an easy nor a tolerant companion . |
| 27 | However , in M v. Home Office the Court of Appeal held that although neither the Crown as such nor a government department could be held liable for contempt as a result of disobeying a court order ( including an order of prohibition or mandamus ) because they are not ‘ legal persons ’ , Ministers and civil servants could be personally guilty of contempt for failing to comply with an order directed to a Minister in his or her official capacity . |
| 28 | Neither the artisanal nor the post-artisanal phase of market relations in cultural production can be said to have ended . |
| 29 | Should this be accepted , he would escape a mandatory life sentence for each murder and would be sent to a mental hospital , with the prospect of release if the trial judge were to accept a petition that he was no longer mentally ill nor a danger to the public . |
| 30 | It makes the actual work of ferreting uncomfortable and those days when the rainfall is persistent are neither comfortable nor the most sporting . |