Example sentences of "[adv] longer [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fewer and fewer Labour people can any longer distract themselves from the common assertion that Mr Kinnock is surrounded by men who are more able and winning than he is . |
| 2 | It is just that modern physicists seem to have more imaginative ways of naming new particles and phenomena — they no longer restrict themselves to Greek ! ) |
| 3 | Nonconformity no longer felt itself to be a gathered community of dissenters but part and parcel of the English Christian Church and for better or worse the architectural tradition of that Church and nation was Gothic . |
| 4 | And if King Fahd refuses to have them there , then he can no longer present himself as the guardian , on behalf of the Muslim world , of the holy places . |
| 5 | And since the effect would be to put off the catastrophe indefinitely , since Capitalism could now continue by reason of policies which provided also a solution to the problem of unemployment , Empirical Socialism need no longer distinguish itself from the Marxist version solely by the method and pace of change , by being evolutionary rather than revolutionary . |
| 6 | Here then is a criminal phenomenon that is associated with social disintegration — the fact that a society , the inhabitants of these areas of the great cities , who once regarded themselves as one , now no longer regard themselves as one , are not one , were one in the past but are not one now , and are still growing apart . |
| 7 | In the 1933 elections the socialists no longer associated themselves with the divided fractions of the middle class republican government , hoping to rally a broad following independently . |
| 8 | As Foucault ( 1977 : 16 ) put it , punishment no longer addressed itself to the body of the criminal , but to the soul . |
| 9 | Thus the Somme offensive dragged on until , with the advent of winter rains in mid-November , when the exhausted , hungry men could no longer drag themselves through the deepening mud , it died away in disappointment and despair . |
| 10 | Our appeal to our traditional supporters was not enough to outweigh our lack of success with those growing numbers who no longer count themselves as working class . |
| 11 | She promised herself , however , that she would hold the office only briefly , and now that her husband Stan has retired , she feels that she can no longer involve herself to so great an extent in commitments and activities that take her away from home . |
| 12 | With respect to goods purchased from a non owner , this rule has been construed by the Swiss Supreme Court to mean that ‘ whenever the circumstances raise doubts as to the quality of the seller , the purchaser may no longer content himself with the mere appearance constituted by possession ; the purchaser must enquire into the seller 's capacity to convey property right ’ . |
| 13 | This week the club lost captain David Rees to Newport and coach Paul Evans has decided he can no longer commit himself to the club because of the pressures of his Welsh Under-21 assistant coaching duties . |
| 14 | The PSI leader Bettino Craxi , whose reputation had suffered indirectly from corruption scandals in Milan [ see p. 38896 ] , had announced on June 17 that he was no longer presenting himself as a candidate for Prime Minister , but had given President Oscar Scalfaro a list of three PSI candidates — Amato , outgoing Foreign Minister Gianni De Michelis , and outgoing Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister Claudio Martelli . |
| 15 | But repeat the procedure often enough and the response will diminish and eventually the animal will no longer curl itself into a ball when touched — as if it had become accustomed to the stimulus and no longer regarded it as dangerous . |
| 16 | If social anthropologists are sincere when they say that their subject is a kind of micro-sociology and when they proclaim that they no longer feel themselves to be members of a culture/society which is intrinsically " superior " to that of the people they are studying , why do n't they study themselves ? |
| 17 | They no longer regarded themselves as objects of charity and resented being so regarded by the hearing world . |
| 18 | Ultimately , segmentation policy may lead Perkins to a market situation where it may no longer see itself as " an engineering company selling an engineering product " but instead is " moving towards a service company approach " in which " the ability to work with customers must be a high priority . " |
| 19 | After his retirement , my father no longer found himself in command of an Ordnance Base Depot supplying the whole of the 8th Army , but merely a small cottage in Hampshire . |
| 20 | Major firms like General Motors and Heinz no longer see themselves as machines needing only periodic maintenance to run forever . |
| 21 | Third , how can this shift be played out in the portrayal of disabled people in relationship to their impairment so that they no longer see themselves as able-bodied people who are flawed . |
| 22 | She had known that she was playing with fire , her own emotions had been awakened and she no longer trusted herself to be level-headed where Craig was concerned and yet was n't that half-fearful desire a challenge , a part of the fascination she felt for Craig Grenfell ? |
| 23 | No longer berating herself for being an imperfect mother , she will be satisfied simply to be good enough . ’ |