Example sentences of "[adv] longer [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor should we any longer ignore change in the changing world : We should grasp the opportunities offered now , because if action is delayed circumstances can soon turn against us , as they have so often in the past . |
| 2 | During the first days of that Holy Week Mrs Abigail continued to believe that she could not endure a marriage that was a travesty , and that she could no longer endure life in Dynmouth . |
| 3 | Though Marcus no longer took part in this process , he never missed a single morning ; he liked to know everything that was going on — how many cargo-ships berthed for loading or unloading — how many hours taken to clear each one — how many men needed on every job . |
| 4 | The soldiers that stand guard beside the entrances to the colonies and rush to defend any breach in the walls , are armed with jaws so huge that they can no longer gather food for themselves and have to be fed by the workers . |
| 5 | On the basis of this review , we have decided that we shall no longer accord recognition to governments . |
| 6 | I feel it is important that you , your readers and the tennis public should know that I no longer take part in any decision making relating to the business of the company or the centre and therefore I take no responsibility , for either the success or failure of Junior Tennis Centre Ltd nor Sutton Junior Tennis Centre . |
| 7 | It seems that we no longer take pride in our oral heritage . |
| 8 | No longer does evidence of authenticity have to rely solely on stylistic criteria , which can be unreliable . |
| 9 | But Wilson had been immeasurably kind to him , found a place for a very square peg in his government and , in 1967 , when he no longer had room in his government for Wigg , created him a peer and was at pains to find him a suitable job as chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board . |
| 10 | Eggs can become poisoned , therefore eggs should no longer form part of a staple diet … ! |
| 11 | I will no longer give power over me to anyone else , so they can sabotage my life . |
| 12 | THOSE keen environmentalists , Richard Branson and Sir James Goldsmith , are no longer seeing eye to eye . |
| 13 | As a result , the pension rise in November 1980 was effectively reduced and increases in current pensions no longer keep pace with rising costs . |
| 14 | The women sit in circles talking , they are passing telegrams along battle lines , telling each other stories that will not put them to sleep , recognising allies under the disguise of femininity , no longer smuggling ammunition over back garden walls . |
| 15 | Jonathan Bloch is no longer publishing director of International Business Communications . |
| 16 | The bad news for fans was revealed by guitarist Brian May , who said the group no longer made sense without its vocalist . |
| 17 | He said the group no longer made sense without its flamboyant lead singer Freddie Mercury , who lost his battle with Aids last year . |
| 18 | Building contractors and employers soon became aware that the contracts into which they had entered no longer made provision for those situations which were beginning to arise : but new standard forms were slow to emerge , and it is only in recent years that these have proliferated . |
| 19 | The Performing Right Society is currently circulating all orchestras and bands in the country with a directive instructing them no longer to submit notification of all live performances . |
| 20 | The plaintiff 's solicitor has these alternatives to personal service , which no longer requires production of the original writ : ( 1 ) By ordinary first class post to the defendant 's address ( not by recorded delivery which would destroy the presumption of service ) , ( 2 ) By insertion through the defendant 's letter box . |
| 21 | An inadequate system has been made worse by the Government 's decision that it will no longer accept responsibility for collecting maintenance unless there have been irregular payments . |
| 22 | They could no longer plead ignorance of God . |
| 23 | Her mother claims she no longer needs treatment for her arthritis . |
| 24 | In the still lifes , which have the same general characteristics as the landscapes , the Cézannian device of tipping certain objects up on to the picture plane is exaggerated to the point that one realizes at once that the artist is no longer making use of scientific perspective . |
| 25 | It would be mischievous to suggest that the opponents no longer see safety as a problem , but it does seem to have receded from the foreground , despite the fact that — or could it be because ? — there was a serious nuclear accident in the US , in a PWR very different from that designed for Sizewell . |
| 26 | Seven months on , Ford people are admitting as much , just as the clever among them are no longer feigning surprise at our conclusions . |
| 27 | And the Duke made sure that they no longer gave employment in the studios to these conspirators . |
| 28 | Apathy is a state of mind in which we have given up and no longer exercise control over our lives . |
| 29 | In recent months a good deal of concern has been expressed about students no longer having access to benefits over the summer vacation . |
| 30 | the food basket ( i.e. rationed food ) is no longer taken advantage of in full by the poorer segments of the urban population simply because they can not afford it any more . |