Example sentences of "[modal v] no [adv] [be] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 19 should no longer be understood as requiring any such investigation in the Sunday trading cases . |
| 2 | DRUG addicts and ‘ dossers ’ are being considered by the Government among groups who should no longer be counted as unemployed . |
| 3 | The effect of these three changes brought about by the growth of corporate enterprise was that the market could no longer be viewed as regulating and thereby legitimating the exercise of corporate power . |
| 4 | The first reason why the market could no longer be perceived as limiting economic power was that the structure of the market ceased to correspond even loosely with the model of perfect competition which required numerous firms operating in the same industry so that no firm was capable of affecting the price of its product by varying the level of the output of that product . |
| 5 | Procedurally , the machinery could no longer be operated since no provision had been made , in 1922 , for functions relating to the organising of elections and previously discharged by the Lord Chancellor and Clerk of the Crown in Ireland , to be transferred to new officials , and those offices had been abolished . |
| 6 | ‘ By the beginning of 1960 ’ , he wrote , ‘ it could no longer be denied that certain parts of London at night were dominated by a new spirit of insecurity ’ : ‘ juvenile delinquency had for the first time in Britain become elevated to the status of a national problem ’ . |
| 7 | When it could no longer be denied that there was a recession , the Chancellor retreated to his second line of defence . |
| 8 | Whilst at one time the personal characteristics of children , and the circumstances in which they were received into care , set them apart from other children not admitted into care , the norms of family life for children inside and outside of public care could no longer be regarded as so different from each other . |
| 9 | As the organisers could n't find any reason to suppress it or reject it , they dumped the piece behind screens where it could no longer be seen and we lost sight of it for the whole exhibition . |
| 10 | They could no longer be bought and sold as dates . |
| 11 | This really meant the abandonment of the original reductive theory , since it could no longer be claimed that a non-observation statement was exactly equivalent in meaning to any collection of observation statements , however complex and conditional that collection might be . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) Where a right of action to recover land has accrued and after its accrual , before the right is barred , the land ceases to be in adverse possession , the right of action shall no longer be treated as having accrued and no fresh right of action shall be treated as accruing unless and until the land is again taken into adverse possession … |
| 13 | So people who ‘ hear voices ’ or have intensely meaningful experiences would no longer be seen as ‘ pathologically hallucinated ’ or ‘ suffering ’ from various symptoms . |
| 14 | Though then , of course , the activity in question would no longer be walking but growing nerves , and the walking itself might again have to be relearned as described earlier . |
| 15 | Tony McClenaghan , a VAT Partner with accountants Touche Ross , said : ‘ From next March the basic functions of a holding company will no longer be accepted as business activities by Customs and Excise , and so there will be no right to deduct VAT incurred in carrying out takeovers , acquisitions , or defences against hostile bids . |
| 16 | Costs previously carried as a contribution to woodland maintenance , heritage and amenity will no longer be borne as owners seek to comply with the new requirements . |
| 17 | As a society 's needs change and evolve , so will the cultural norms change and certain old patterns of behaviour will no longer be rewarded whereas new patterns will . |
| 18 | As well as creating one of Europe 's most compact and flexible car factories , the changes will also alter the Oxford landscape , the bridge over the ring road which ferries car bodies to the assembly plant will no longer be required and will disappear . |
| 19 | They fear that responsibilities and attitudes once a prominent part of a teacher 's life may no longer be regarded as essential ; they fear an erosion of the teacher 's role and status , and see changes as signalling moves to squeeze him out of concerns that were and are rightly his . |
| 20 | In the fullness of time when products are superseded , module versions may no longer be required and consequently may no longer need to be retained in magnetic form . |
| 21 | However , there are now real problems and the solutions to them can no longer be delayed or fudged . |
| 22 | ( i ) As a result of the progress of medical science certain conditions are now so easily diagnosable and treatable , that , although they once carried a mortality , it can no longer be said that they do , unless that mortality is brought on as a result of some wholly unexpected and exceptional circumstance , for example gross negligence on the part of the doctor treating the patient . |
| 23 | In his Introduction to Modern Criticism and Theory ( 1988 ) , a collection of major critical essays of recent years , David Lodge writes : ‘ Literary criticism can no longer be taught and practised as if its methods , aims and institutional forms were innocent of theoretical assumptions and ideological implications . ’ |
| 24 | Although amber can no longer be regarded as among the more precious substances , it was certainly rated as precious in former times . |
| 25 | Invariably in well-established firms the work continues to flow from long tapped sources , but in the aggressive business climate facing the profession today it can no longer be assumed that this will continue . |
| 26 | Psychological models derived from the observation of groups consisting of students can no longer be taken as representing general truths . |
| 27 | The price level on other islands can no longer be taken as fixed at p but will be seen to have risen . |
| 28 | Once leaked , most kinds of information can no more be rebottled than pigs can fly . |