Example sentences of "[adv] longer the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And if we remain stationary much longer the whole village will have it as fact . |
| 2 | A sudden sickness and fatigue swamped her , and she felt incapable of facing the long , painful inquest that would start in a few minutes — incapable of sustaining any longer the intolerable labour of love . |
| 3 | The attempt of the Chandra Shekhar ( S ) faction of Janata Dal to continue its minority government , in office since November 1990 [ see p. 37854 ] , ended on March 6 when Shekhar resigned , unwilling to meet any longer the political price demanded by Rajiv Gandhi 's Congress ( I ) party for its parliamentary support . |
| 4 | Because of the barrier against incest , the final object of the sexual instinct ‘ is never any longer the original object but only a surrogate for it … . |
| 5 | During 1988 [ name ] undertook the disposal of all its retail outlets following a detailed market research survey which suggested that showrooms were no longer the optimum sales medium for [ name ] products . |
| 6 | They were no longer the oppressed , wretched teen menials who must take orders , toe the line . |
| 7 | I am pleased that the standards on the transport of live animals generally are approaching British standards and are no longer the low standards that once obtained . |
| 8 | I am no longer the late Stephen Summerchild , a reserved man who is devoted to his family , with a passion for music . |
| 9 | In each of the new groups , religious belief and church attendance continued to be encouraged , but this was no longer the principal aim of the movement as a whole . |
| 10 | A policy on home monitoring for this large group of patients should recognise that self monitoring is no longer the principal means of assessing glycaemic control but is , rather , a tool that can offer reassurance or warn of problems during the intervals between measurements of longer term control . |
| 11 | Second , the commoditisation of hardware , which means that maintenance is no longer the critical service it once was — if something goes wrong with a relatively cheap personal computer , for example , people have the option to simply ‘ bung it in the bin ’ without wasting too much money . |
| 12 | Italy , for instance , was no longer the great Roman empire . |
| 13 | The ‘ good fight ’ is then no longer the Great Battle but the fight for human rights , human equalities and human justice . |
| 14 | Within private manufacturing industry as Brown ( 1981 ) has shown , multi-employer negotiations are no longer the major means of pay determination since two-thirds of manual workers now have their pay settled by single-employer bargaining — although , for the economy as a whole , 46 per cent of firms in the private sector reported multi-employer bargaining as being the most important for pay increases , as against 75 per cent for the public sector ( Daniel and Millward , 1983 ) . |
| 15 | He had left in 1979 , when he felt he was no longer the right man for the job , and the Honourable Edward Adeane had replaced him . |
| 16 | Many now feel that local government is vulnerable to extremism by both right and left and it is perhaps no longer the right vehicle to deliver major public services . |
| 17 | And then , with a touch of venom , ‘ Or are you no longer the right person to ask ? ’ |
| 18 | Virgin Records was no longer the small , struggling outsider with only a handful of artists , but an established and thriving company , vying competitively with the likes of Island and Chrysalis — and , what 's more , they now had a newly-established office in America . |
| 19 | Souness said : ‘ Bruce is finding it hard to accept he is no longer the automatic No 1 . |
| 20 | For some farmers and landowners the major impact of the newcomers has therefore been political rather than social , for their arrival in the village has ensured that landownership is no longer the automatic passport to the political domination of the countryside that it was once considered to be . |
| 21 | SIR — To suggest , as J. G. Girling does ( letter , April 1 ) , that the British Parliament is no longer the supreme legislative body of our country is to argue that Parliament is incapable of repealing its own legislation . |
| 22 | Merv Hughes and McDermott are still bowling as many ribticklers as they dare , but the blatant ‘ throat ball ’ is no longer the monotonous , stultifying stock ball of the exterminators . |
| 23 | THE mighty dollar — accepted by Indian rickshaw-wallahs , Russian food distributors , Filipino masseuses , Cuban customs officials and even London taxi-drivers — is no longer the all-powerful international currency that travellers should never be without . |
| 24 | She was not alone any more in feeling oppressed by the strict formality , the strict time-keeping ; after-dinner games were more lively — and she was no longer the only one who wanted to giggle at the sound of the bagpipes that played them out of the dining-room after dinner every night . |
| 25 | the difficulty , for the father , of accepting that he was no longer the only decision maker ; |
| 26 | Authors , readers and critics , however , are no longer the only actors on the stage . |
| 27 | The middle class is growing and the military is no longer the only path to advancement for the poor but able . |
| 28 | By the time Virginia became a royal colony it was no longer the only English settlement in the Americas . |
| 29 | But the car was no longer the only vehicle parked there . |
| 30 | With the growth of the parallel markets , however , the discount market is no longer the only source of immediately available funds to individual banks . |