Neither the athletes who will take part in the contest nor the fans / have ever been inside of the newly built Olympic stadium.

It is next week / that either my sisters, who seem unable to show up at the times they agree to, / or my mother is going to pick me up from the airport.

The most influential inventions in human history / were both the results of tremendous intellectual efforts and the causes of subsequent innovations.

Neither the angelic messengers floating to the earth like feathers, / as was promised in the prophecy, / nor the goddess of justice herself / has arrived.

Not only was there an unexpected snowstorm in October / but also the leaves had not yet fallen from the trees, / causing their limbs to accumulate too much ice and snap from the weight.

The popularization of social networking services did not just create a new way to communicate with friends and family / but also changed the way news is reported and shared.

Either it was the requests made by the nobles or it was the demands of the populace / that finally did force the king to end the war.

While in the meeting, / Herbert, who rarely, if ever, spoke in the office, / suggested a number of brilliant ideas, / for which we were all very grateful, / that are certain to benefit our project.

So destructive was the Great Depression, the global economic crisis which occurred in the 1930s, / that not only were industries devastated / but individuals also experienced a social crisis brought about by poverty and unemployment.

The fact that the travel restrictions made it difficult for poorer citizens to vote / was not an unintended consequence of the policy but, as you supposed, a major goal of the administration’s plan.