Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] longer [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had tried out such individual projects himself the previous year when the resources first arrived , and the results were encouraging , so he was extending it : " having got more resources they were no longer all fighting over one or two books " . |
| 2 | There were no longer any cries from upstairs . |
| 3 | It told readers : ‘ The couple were no longer any more than a cracked facade . |
| 4 | There were no longer any grave differences of principle between him and the king , but there must have been many routine tasks after so long an absence , and these seem to have occupied the greater part of 1107 . |
| 5 | At night there were no longer any bonfires to be seen , either on the hill or way out on the surrounding plain . |
| 6 | From then on , the US government was blind in its policy-making about the Beirut hostages , for example , because there were no longer any reliable day-to-day reports about their location and condition . |
| 7 | After the MCC match there was no longer much reason to hope . |
| 8 | Wilson 's own choice of metaphor was no longer that of the centre forward , but the seasoned centre half feeding passes to his experienced forwards and allowing them to score the goals . |
| 9 | The protection suit that had been the sacrificial dummy was no longer that . |
| 10 | Hope retraced his steps and came up alongside a Mr Crump whose mind had been cleared and relaxed by the stimulating freedom given to his prejudices : his expression was no longer that of the tentative , diffident social and artistic explorer : he was a hard man in his office dealing with a captain whose cargo did not comply with his list of instructions . |
| 11 | Wexford certainly was n't going to embark on a sabbath day 's journey to Sewingbury , and now they had mucked up the Kingsbrook Road with those flats , there was no longer any point in going there . |
| 12 | What could she say to him except that she felt her life — their life together — slipping away ; that whether she survived or slid wearily from her broken body , there was no longer any prospect of happiness for them ; that he should forget her and make his own world without her ? |
| 13 | Later , when freedmen had been assimilated into Roman society , there was no longer any need to proclaim Roman identity in this way . |
| 14 | Layforce having virtually ceased to exist , there was no longer any credible raiding force at the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief . |
| 15 | Once through the Gabes Gap there was no longer any empty desert to escape into and they were trying to operate in a densely populated area that was quite unsuitable for SAS methods . |
| 16 | There was no longer any forum where education as an essential , local provision could be discussed , and there was no pressure group to speak for this aspect of national education . |
| 17 | And , wonder of wonders , soon after I arrived word came from Group that there was no longer any need to do hourly observations at night . |
| 18 | Charlton proved that the legend was fictitious and attributed to it ‘ a monkish origin ’ , invented to ensure the continuance of a service for the abbey for which there was no longer any justification . |
| 19 | There was no longer any need for her to be |
| 20 | There was no longer any need for Kirov to keep up his act , play the elaborate game . |
| 21 | In due course the surface temperature on Venus was higher than the boiling point of water , so that there was no longer any possibility of liquid water on the planet 's surface — in other words , there could be no rivers or seas . |
| 22 | Peter endowed the occasion with an atmosphere of reconciliation : the fact that he and Kate were together somehow made up for Abbotsfield ; there was no longer any need to feel guilty . |
| 23 | The results of what followed have led Ivan Koltsov , who led the research and was a Member of the Geographical Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences , to announce that there was no longer any doubt that what had been found beneath the monastery at the Alexandrov settlement was indeed Ivan the Terrible 's library containing priceless works of art . |
| 24 | The advent of generalized floating in early 1973 meant that there was no longer any requirement to keep the snake in the tunnel . |
| 25 | Its form was settled in the fifteenth century , and well before 1485 there was no longer any doubt that the House of Commons was an integral part of Parliament , as necessary to its existence as the Lords : no statute was valid without its consent . |
| 26 | There was no longer any need for London publishers to " send work 400 miles " . |
| 27 | There was no longer any understanding that in making available advantages to private individuals the state was at the same time imposing a ‘ trust ’ that the business be conducted for the public good . |
| 28 | There was no longer any point in even trying to shout . |
| 29 | There was no longer any mystery about Rose 's birth , but even if there had been , Harry would not have cared . |
| 30 | At once the carefully constructed cradle collapsed ; there was no longer any pattern , merely an ugly mass of tangled string hanging from his hands . |