Example sentences of "longer to be " in BNC.
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1 | The picture of God at a man 's mercy is surely one derived from the story 's primitive origins , and no longer to be taken seriously . |
2 | When in the early days pilgrims gathered to hold the feast at Gilgal , perhaps their celebrations included a procession round the ruined mound of Jericho , where no walls were any longer to be seen above ground , with the blowing of sacred trumpets of rams ' horns , and the solemn carrying of the ark . |
3 | But I must readjust to the new and increasingly painful realization that this man is no longer to be trusted , not even in the smallest detail . |
4 | These verderers were no longer to be officers of the Crown administering the forest law on its behalf . |
5 | If services are no longer to be held , even irregularly , there may still be a local farmer or former parishioner who is willing to carry out basic maintenance . |
6 | But the ill-effects , especially those that developed slowly , took much longer to be identified . |
7 | After the first few lessons it is important to take it easy and not rush around as this may undo the teacher 's work and the process will take longer to be effective . |
8 | Soon Jerusalem was no longer to be seen in Dorset 's green and pleasant land . |
9 | The idea that modernity is problematic has caused sufficient anxiety about the modern world for its use no longer to be restricted to the universities and classrooms but to spill out into the everyday culture . |
10 | It does not seem any longer to be a system of dominance and subordination . |
11 | ‘ And that means I shall have to live longer to be around when he needs me . ’ |
12 | The memorandum ( endorsed by the National Joint Advisory Council representing the British Employers ' Confederation , the TUC , and the nationalized industries ) identified as the essential problem the provision of a place in society for the ever-growing proportion of elderly persons and suggested that : ‘ Age sixty-five for men and sixty for women ought no longer to be regarded as ‘ normal retiring age ’ ' . |
13 | The Church appeared no longer to be the guiding force that she believed it once had been , and felt it ought still to be . |
14 | However , the C compiler now has to be bought separately as it is no longer to be bundled with Solaris : SunPro claims that it is no longer a necessary item for customers . |
15 | Through such processes , it was felt , the basis of public law was no longer to be rooted in command but rather in organization . |
16 | There is still a lot of competition from cheaper second-hand aircraft , although now that the Piper Cadet seems no longer to be in production perhaps the market is somewhat more restricted . |
17 | The basis was no longer to be the palace scaled down , but the cottage extended : ‘ In this view of a villa , the dwelling is to be considered as only an amplification of the cottage . ’ |
18 | I was no longer to be an article of decoration , however . |
19 | Homophonic real words ( e.g. rain , reign ) , however , take longer to be responded to than non-homophonic ( real ) words in the RVF but not in the LVF ( Barry , 1981 ) . |
20 | She stood there until he went quiet , stayed a few minutes longer to be certain and only then returned to her cupboard bedroom next to the servants ' loft . |
21 | One line of evidence is the fact that severe ‘ inner city ’ deprivation is no longer to be found just in older urban areas but also in the outer council-housing estates on the edges of cities which were built to house inner city residents displaced by renewal programmes ( CES Ltd , 1985 ) . |
22 | Too small even to be found on many maps , too hidden for any of its innocent affairs to be worthy of attention , Granard seemed no longer to be part of the priest 's past . |
23 | It turned out that the territories in which a larger repertory was broadcast took longer to be re-occupied . |
24 | As a result of one recommendation , the company was no longer to be totally run from Wales , but broken up into smaller profit centres ; four separate operating divisions were proposed , each with its own board comprising the principal managers within that division . |
25 | She had spoken too long to pretend any longer to be asleep , and so she twisted and touched Rosa 's back , softly , with a hand on her shoulder to make her face her . |
26 | In this context , then , approaches to education must begin from the notion , articulated by André Gorz and others , that ours is a post-industrial society where paid work on a full-time basis is no longer to be seen as the norm , and where ‘ education for life ’ rather than ‘ training for jobs ’ should be the objective . |
27 | Their association was no longer to be kept secret and , anyway , Laura denied that he had come . |
28 | If art is no longer to be considered as of a different order than life , then the idea of aesthetic avant-gardes is questioned . |
29 | It was easy to sink into a sort of limbo , where nothing seemed any longer to be as important as it had been . |
30 | They featured ( i ) the reinstatement of the Ministry of Justice ( abolished in 1966 ) , the minister having the right to overturn court rulings ; ( ii ) the guaranteeing to defendants of the assistance on demand of a defence lawyer , including at the investigation stage ; ( iii ) a reduction in the number of capital offences from 34 to 11 ( retaining as capital offences treason , espionage , terrorism , murder and " economic crime " such as sabotage and theft of state property ) , and the exclusion of women from capital punishment ; ( iv ) clearer definition of the crime of agitation and propaganda against the state ( which was no longer to be a capital offence ) , in order to prevent its abuse by the authorities ; ( v ) the redefinition of internment and deportation as penal rather than administrative sanctions ( i.e. requiring a court ruling rather than merely a local authority order ) ; and ( vi ) the introduction of remission for prisoners for good behaviour . |