Example sentences of "[adj] that neither " 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 The King , however , made it clear that neither mother nor son was welcome and so the journey to England had to be resumed .
3 As the hours go by , it 's clear that neither Gilbert nor George is particularly miserable .
4 Finally , it is clear that neither residential nor foster care is a ‘ perfect ’ institution .
5 By the early sixties … it was clear that neither the efforts made in the first post-war decade nor the developments outlined in Mr Butler 's White Paper were reducing — or were likely to reduce — the volume of crime or the numbers of persistent offenders .
6 Babies were not the only people whose rights were being demanded at the end of the Second World War ; other groups , too , submerged in anonymous poverty through years of unemployment , had in wartime received for the first time their fair share both of work and of food , and were now making it clear that neither malnutrition nor the grinding degradation of worklessness could any longer be tolerated by the ‘ lower classes ’ of the victorious nations .
7 By the morning of Friday 10 November it was clear that neither Chamberlain nor Long would secure a majority and that some supporters of each of them would not contentedly follow the other .
8 It is also clear that neither the inductivists nor the falsificationists give an account of science that is compatible with it .
9 Only a few of her friends had been active in the Resistance , but it was clear that neither they nor anyone else much wanted to talk about the choices they had all had to make .
10 By the mid-1970s , it was clear that neither sensory inputs nor motor outputs had properties which corresponded to the behavioural habituation , as neither showed such decrements in electrical response .
11 It 's clear that neither Jane nor Grant want to split up but , in Jo 's view , they should stop living together if they want to save their relationship .
12 It is also true that Kilvert had no gift for self-analysis , and further that the diary was impoverished by his widow 's removal from it of the volumes which apparently described not only their courtship and marriage , but the two most profound of Kilvert 's previous affairs of the heart ; though she left the frequent passages describing Kilvert 's passionate attachments to young girls , whose fundamentally erotic nature it is clear that neither she nor Kilvert himself recognized .
13 It is also quite clear that neither clients nor designers can predict precisely how system environment will be affected by the new system.under these circumstances the best strategy appears to be one which provides opportunities for all those involved to learn from experience as the system development and operation progresses .
14 Its members organized aid for the Republican government while its leaders felt unable to do so until the following year when it became clear that neither Germany nor Italy had the slightest intention of discouraging aid to Franco .
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 Some rejected his proposed method of procedure and in 1931 Kurt Gödel dashed all hopes by proving that in a consistent system formalising the natural numbers there is a theorem A such that neither A nor not-A can be proved within the system .
17 However , it seems likely that neither Browne J. nor the Faulks Committee was asked to consider the implications of article 10 to which I shall later refer in detail .
18 It is obvious that neither Reagan nor the men around him such as Meese , Baker , and Regan were revolutionaries .
19 A stalemate would make sure that neither Ford nor GM could benefit from Jaguar 's expertise in the luxury car market but it will not be particularly attractive for investors .
20 I 'm sure that neither one of us has any thoughts along those lines at all .
21 It was , however , a month or two before they gave up sending me colourful brochures with inducements to have a rose bush planted in his name or an attractively calligraphed entry in their ‘ Book of Remembrance ’ , to be opened every year on the date of his death to commemorate his passing etc , etc , none of which was cheap and I 'm sure that neither I nor anyone else who knew him will need that kind of reminder .
22 He said I am sure I am sure that neither death nor life nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord .
23 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 .
24 There a long series of rectifications , again often based on exchanges carefully adjusted to make sure that neither side too obviously gained or lost by them , meant that by 1789 the boundary was essentially a modern linear one .
25 Such a miracle would have dwarfed all miracles recorded in the Bible , and Frederick Temple , who in 1896 became Archbishop of Canterbury , pointed out in his Bampton Lecture of 1884 that neither Darwin nor Huxley had claimed to know how life had come to animate inert matter .
26 The decision also followed appeals for a postponement from many within the 12-party Unity Assembly , Haiti 's opposition coalition , who were concerned that neither the safety of voters nor the fairness of the poll could be guaranteed because of the prevailing climate of violence and lawlessness within the country .
27 The Environmental Protection Act requires the installation of new pollution abatement equipment , and despite assurances by David Trippier , Minister of State for the Environment , the federation is concerned that neither HM Pollution Inspectorate nor local authorities have adequate staff or expertise to advise individual companies on how the legislation will affect them .
28 When exaggerated to this degree , it is evident that neither teaching nor learning could ensue , for cooperation was absent and opposition in full force .
29 It is particularly notable that neither in the mines nor in the other industries nationalised at that time was there any substantial movement towards workers ' control .
30 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 .
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