Example sentences of "[adv] longer [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , however , four days later , having escaped into Austria himself , Loehr was making a final attempt to surrender his forces to the British , saying that he was not longer able to control the movement northwards into Austria either of his own German troops , or of a huge column of Croat troops and civilian refugees advancing from Zagreb on the frontier town of Dravograd , south-east of Klagenfurt . |
| 2 | While the parent company in a multinational group will necessarily be registered in a particular country and the group headquarters and a preponderance of shareholders may also be located there , in the case of some multinationals it is scarcely any longer appropriate to regard them as having national loyalties . |
| 3 | But in the 1970s few self-made first generation Conservative politicians had personal memories of the 1930s , or were any longer inclined to conciliate the trade unions and make the avoidance of unemployment the main goal of economic policy . |
| 4 | It was no longer practicable to seek a way around the Swamp , instead some sort of shelter had to be found as soon as possible . |
| 5 | It was no longer practicable to seek a way around the Swamp , instead some sort of shelter had to be found as soon as possible . |
| 6 | Wilson rejected the argument , replying that the Commission had broken down because it was no longer practical to contemplate a once for all look at something that was changing so rapidly . |
| 7 | There are probably many situations where you as a manager have become so used to a task or a situation that it is no longer easy to bring to it a vigorous or fresh approach . |
| 8 | Marginal land had to be given up either to waste or to sheep and cattle , since it was no longer profitable to plough it . |
| 9 | With a much smaller baseload of night traffic it was no longer viable to retain separate services to Scotland on both the East and West Coast routes . |
| 10 | It is true that God is not yet totally banished from his creation , but having made it and all that is in it , rather like a watchmaker constructs a timepiece , he is felt to be no longer necessary to explain the inner workings of the mechanism . |
| 11 | Of course it is essential that the alternative assessment instrument is valid , reliable and practicable and that its use is documented , but it is no longer necessary to ask for permission . |
| 12 | It was no longer necessary to pretend they knew less or more than they did . |
| 13 | It is no longer necessary to agree the market value of assets for which capital gains tax holdover relief is claimed ( p 129 ) . |
| 14 | It is no longer necessary to agree the market value of assets for which capital gains tax gifts holdover relief is claimed . |
| 15 | He reckoned that he had built so many locomotives in his time that it was no longer necessary to undertake normal design work . |
| 16 | She had refined the smuggling operation between Morocco and the UK to such a pitch that it was no longer necessary to put into a Mediterranean or UK port and in this way had succeeded in making over twenty runs bringing cargoes of cannabis into Britain since 1974 . |
| 17 | It was no longer necessary to wait until Sunday for a dose of smut and scandal , when the Sun was offering it six days a week . |
| 18 | The mnemonics ensure that after a minimum of experience with the structure it is no longer necessary to refer to Figure 11.3 when transmitting or receiving . |
| 19 | It was no longer necessary to block Russia 's advance with an independent Poland and a strong Turkey to control the Dardanelles ; nor was it necessary to oppose the national struggles of the Czechs and the Southern Slavs . |
| 20 | Remember that when your child has learned a difficult task it is no longer necessary to give rewards regularly ; occasionally you might acknowledge the child 's continuing cooperation with a word of thanks or encouragement . |
| 21 | On the question of day-to-day outgoings attaching to a property , such as water rates , it is no longer necessary to hand over receipts to the buyers on completion . |
| 22 | Where the fire-resistance of a cast-iron member must be increased , it is no longer necessary to apply protective materials which conceal the shape and ‘ character ’ of the components . |
| 23 | It is no longer necessary to apply this endorsement . |
| 24 | It was no longer necessary to upstage the Green Party ; and it was becoming harder , too , to find a straightforward , easily defined green issue on which to challenge the Tories . |
| 25 | It is no longer necessary to stand idly by and , for instance and watch aphids ruin a cereal , or bean crop . |
| 26 | Although the burden of proof is still on the victim to show the damage , the defect and the causal link between them , it is no longer necessary to establish negligence . |
| 27 | After a month-long pollution scare , Thames Water Authority says it is no longer necessary to boil water . |
| 28 | The equipment could work faster , the mould was sealed against the ingress of dirt , and it was no longer necessary to provide paper labels . |
| 29 | A child 's name should only be removed from the register when it is agreed unanimously at the review that an inter-agency protection plan is no longer necessary to protect the child . |
| 30 | Among other casualties in this process will be plot : ‘ the plot having disappeared , it is no longer necessary to have the events of fiction follow a logical , sequential pattern ( in time and in space ) ’ ( Federman 1975 : 810 ) . |