Example sentences of "[adv] longer [verb] by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advent of commercial and domestic freezing equipment means that what we eat is no longer limited by the time of year — although whether you consider the flavour of food which has been deep frozen for any length of time to be as good is another matter . |
| 2 | Waste paper is no longer generated by the ton and almost every home has one in the form of a television set — imagine the popularity of home computers if Teletypes were still used ! |
| 3 | Auditors are no longer employed by the Secretary of State , although the commission itself is appointed by the Secretary of State after consultation with local authority associations and professional accountancy bodies , and he is empowered to issue directions which the commission must observe . |
| 4 | The honeymoon is likely to be the more enjoyable for that , no longer burdened by the weight of expectation , and sometimes fear , that spoilt the experience for some in days gone by . |
| 5 | The use of imprisonment is no longer justified by the aim of rehabilitation . |
| 6 | Money in court for the benefit of a person who has legal aid must be paid out only to his solicitor or , if he is no longer represented by a solicitor , to the Legal Aid Board ( Ord 11 , r 4(4) and reg 87 of the Civil Legal Aid ( General ) Regulations 1989 . |
| 7 | No longer wanted by the élite now that fakes have devalued them . |
| 8 | It is still the disabled person 's ‘ problem ’ that requires explanation , but the explanatory structure is no longer bounded by the individual 's psyche ; rather , answers are sought in the belief-system of the whole society . |
| 9 | The road ran on into the desert alone , no longer accompanied by the railway line or the telegraph poles . |
| 10 | By the early 1970s the Senate was no longer controlled by an oligarchy . |
| 11 | This new Congress was more democratic in its structure with committee chairmen in the House no longer all-powerful barons and the Senate no longer controlled by an oligarchy . |
| 12 | At the weekends , we are no longer constrained by the timetable of our weekdays and we may have a fuller social life in the evening . |
| 13 | The former helicopter repair base is no longer needed by the MoD . |
| 14 | Laura said " used " because letters were no longer brought by the postman ; after he had fallen twice from Maurice 's ill-secured gangplank , the whole morning 's mail soaked away in the great river 's load of rubbish , the GPO , with every reason on its side , had notified the Reach that they could no longer undertake deliveries . |
| 15 | The WLF equation can be used to describe the temperature dependence of dynamic mechanical , and dielectric relaxation behaviour of polymers near the glass transition where the response is no longer described by an Arrhenius relation . |
| 16 | The United Nations has found it much easier to undertake a peacekeeping role since the end of the cold war because its efforts are no longer frustrated by the clash between the super-powers . |
| 17 | For those who find themselves in that category , something extra is now needed , some adventitious stroke of fortune , something to upset the terms of the argument and create a world no longer dominated by a leader of proven unpopularity . |
| 18 | Term accounts are no longer offered by the society , but the share account is now paying only 1.88 p.c. net . |
| 19 | This is after all what the first balletmasters did when professionals appeared on stage and were no longer surrounded by the court where all eyes were focused on the king ( see page 76 ) . |
| 20 | When she opened her eyes the cowboys were no longer crouched by the boulder . |
| 21 | The rain fell as heavily as ever but was no longer compressed by the wind into a solid curtain . |