Example sentences of "[conj] neither [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By section 118(1) , the interpretation section of the Act , it is provided that , where neither income tax nor capital gains tax nor corporation tax is specified , the word ‘ tax ’ means any of those taxes . |
| 2 | Where neither chance nor accident could deflect its meaning . |
| 3 | I picture the two of them ( and I must suppose Summerchild pictures it himself ) walking across Whitehall together , and up Great Scotland Yard , through the thin March sunlight , warmed by the faint hope of summer ; then plunging into the frowsty Edwardian gloom , where neither sunlight nor hope of summer ever penetrate . |
| 4 | That rule prohibits solicitors practising in partnership or " in association " ( where two or more firms have at least one common principal ) from representing : ( 1 ) both seller and buyer in a transfer of land for value at arm 's length ; or ( 2 ) both lessor and lessee on the grant of a lease for value at arm 's length ; or ( 3 ) both lender and borrower in a private mortgage at arm 's length with exceptions made only in the case of : ( 1 ) small transactions ; ( 2 ) where the parties are connected with each other ( commercially or personally ) ; ( 3 ) where there is no other solicitor or licensed conveyancer in the vicinity whom either party might reasonably instruct ; ( 4 ) where two associated firms or two offices of the same firm acting for the parties are in different locations , neither firm having received instructions to act on referral from the other and the matter is dealt with or supervised by a different solicitor at each firm or office and , where the solicitor is not involved in the negotiations , where no conflict of interest arises and where neither vendor nor lessor is a builder or developer . |
| 5 | The same applies where neither plaintiff nor defendant have , after service , taken any action at all ( Ord 9 , r 10 ) . |
| 6 | He observed that there are certain classes of English word combinations that neither syntax nor semantics can justify ; for example , although the words ’ strong ’ and ’ powerful ’ may have a similar meaning , people prefer saying ’ drink strong tea ’ to ’ powerful tea ’ and similarly prefer ’ drive a powerful car ’ to ’ strong car ’ . |
| 7 | that neither angel nor devil came at the hour that he was dead . |
| 8 | It follows that neither space nor time can be classified as " general concepts " . |
| 9 | The ambiguous ‘ we ’ illustrates that neither speaker nor audience possessed one simple identity . |
| 10 | Given the economic significance of such groups , it may be surprising that neither Parliament nor the courts have yet got to grips with the problems they present . |
| 11 | I believe that this application for a residence order is yet another step in this game and that neither parent has been able or willing to see matters from the children 's point of view or in terms of their feelings , experiences and level of understanding . |
| 12 | Lawyers acting on behalf of the defendants had claimed that neither evidence nor witnesses had been presented to support the prosecution . |
| 13 | A subsequent prospective study demonstrated that neither metformin nor glibenclamide had an adverse effect on serum total cholesterol , triglyceride , HDL-cholesterol or the apoproteins A-I and B ( Taylor et al , 1982 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It remains first to say that neither Marxism , nor Empirical Socialism in the Webbs ' versions of it , anticipated Keynes 's General Theory of Employment , Interest and Money . |
| 16 | Then , to increase her income and her reputation , she plunged into business enterprises for which she was ill-equipped and inexperienced ; in three or four years she had lost most of her money and people refused to work for her , ‘ it was advised about the town … that neither man nor beast would serve the said creature ’ . |
| 17 | For these reasons I conclude that as a matter of interpretation the powers of the Director do not cease , as regards the questioning of the person under investigation , when he is charged ; that the principle of common sense , expressed in the maxim generalia specialibus non derogant , entails that the general provisions of the Code yield to the particular provisions of the Act of 1987 in cases to which that Act applies ; and that neither history nor logic demands that any qualification of what Parliament has so clearly enacted ought to be implied . |
| 18 | It seems that neither temple nor town was fortified , so it was possible for the temples to grow outwards from the nucleus of the Central Court virtually without restraint . |
| 19 | However , until very recently the accepted wisdom ( CRC , 1977a ) has been that only manufacturing jobs can provide the sort of economic basis needed for sustained job provision , and that neither hill farming or forestry , as shown in Table 5.10 , or service employment and tourism could provide a long-term solution to rural employment problems . |
| 20 | More controversially perhaps , they claim that neither plastic media nor foam offer the right type of home for bacteria — that on plastic media , in fact , they have to build up an adhesive slime which is self clogging to the media and self-destructive to the bacteria . |
| 21 | The Stanford chemists knew that neither gallium arsenide or gallium phosphide worked well with acetonitrile . |
| 22 | It is a tacit acknowledgement that neither office nor a peerage awaits them . |
| 23 | Even if the matter were still proceeding before the justices ' court , either for the purposes of committal for trial or for trial of an information , it would be my opinion that neither section 5(1) nor section 10(1) of the Act of 1980 would apply to give the justice hearing a proceeding under section 7(5) of the Bail Act 1976 a power to adjourn that proceeding . |
| 24 | He accepted [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 857 , 863B–C that neither section 6(2) nor section 61(1) gave power to order the payment of compensation for loss , and agreed , at p. 864A , that both section 6(2) and section 61(1) were aimed at the statutory rescission of unlawful transactions . |
| 25 | It is a salutary lesson to recognize that neither validity , reliability , or even high quality empirical evidence may be sufficient for any given theory to achieve dominance . |
| 26 | I wish that I had time to go more deeply into the Government 's failure to tackle the root causes of crime in our communities , but suffice it to say that neither unemployment nor lack of a decent home is an excuse for crime . |
| 27 | On the one hand , it may well be true that neither option two nor option four entail direct substitution of judgment by the court . |
| 28 | The fact is that neither congress nor the American people were ready in the early 1980s for the demolition of the welfare state , however much conservative theorists might believe that to be desirable . |
| 29 | If the secretary of state approves , the compensation is assessed on the assumption that neither planning permission nor listed building consent would be given for any works to the building except for those for restoring it to , and maintaining it in , a proper state of repair ; in short , all development value is excluded . |
| 30 | The King , however , made it clear that neither mother nor son was welcome and so the journey to England had to be resumed . |