Example sentences of "[was/were] no [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost a third of the pupils were obliged to eat worm-cakes and do their busy on sheets of newspaper until someone from the clinic was satisfied that they were no longer a threat to the health of fellow-pupils . |
| 2 | Even though the USA and USSR 's potential competitors were no longer a threat , political pressures prevented ‘ sales ’ to any but the British and French national airlines . |
| 3 | On their release , the teenagers will be supervised until they proved they were no longer a threat to society , he said . |
| 4 | The links with the unions , increasingly unpopular , dispirited , and losing membership , were no longer a source of strength . |
| 5 | For the latest generation of skilled working-class adults and their families , leisure became more privatised : pubs and clubs were no longer a source of attraction unless they catered for couples and promised an evening of entertainment . |
| 6 | They need to know that they can give you your professional , their professional attention they will not make it compulsively , the majority party of what went wrong this is you were no longer the majority party . |
| 7 | Vigorous national movements were no longer the instrument of rising capitalist classes , for capital accumulation now required markets far larger than individual countries could provide . |
| 8 | Both our stomachs were set ; a tiny trickle of blood on the sheet confirmed what I had not noticed : that I was no longer a virgin . |
| 9 | Now that he was no longer a virgin and now that it no longer mattered very much , he succeeded in seducing Rosie . |
| 10 | While marriage was no longer a sacrament , it remained ‘ holy matrimony ’ , and involved the reading of banns in church and the use of the ring . |
| 11 | He was no longer a child , but a man . |
| 12 | Knew that she was no longer a child . |
| 13 | Before she finished here and made her way to the sitting room , there were certain things she must say to Cissie , and she must say them without alarming the girl , yet , at the same time , make her aware that she was no longer a child , that she already had the mark of a woman on her . |
| 14 | She wanted so much to confide in Cissie , to share her secret , and after all Cissie was right in saying she was no longer a child . |
| 15 | It was no longer a question of looking for a path to follow but of choosing which , for they rarely went a mile without being faced with the need to choose . |
| 16 | It was no longer a question . |
| 17 | In the twentieth century the field of concern for architecture broadened to the everyday living environment ; housing for example was no longer a question of designing a single house , or even a group , but a whole estate or neighbourhood . |
| 18 | It was no longer a question of whether there would be a major reform but , rather , when and how . |
| 19 | What was involved in this extension of structural linguistics was a profound alteration of perspective in most of the human sciences ; it was no longer a question of gathering empirically verifiable data ; of turning a positivist gaze onto a world of objects , but it meant seeing forms of expression as signs whose meanings depend on conventions , relations and systems , rather than on any inherent features . |
| 20 | It was no longer a fantasy , a ritual extension of the dark dreams of her night times , in which the doctor was to play out some version of her lost father , an ally against the demands of the women in her life . |
| 21 | In the morning sunlight Dent was no longer a fantasy but a solid and compact cluster of dwellings of a past age . |
| 22 | And for Carl Stottor the programme confirmed that Nilsen was no longer a man to be feared . |
| 23 | Alan Moses QC , prosecuting , told the Old Bailey that after evidence from Mr Clark which was ‘ not consistent ’ with his earlier statements , there was no longer a case to answer . |
| 24 | I was no longer a part of it , but this was something I could not , in my insecurity and because of my ingrained family loyalty , admit even to myself . |
| 25 | The reason was that his pain , although it was still there , was no longer a part of him . |
| 26 | It was no longer a part of life . |
| 27 | It was the Kaddish , part of the daily ritual in the synagogue of which he was no longer a part — a prayer of universal peace , which is especially recited by orphan mourners . |
| 28 | Even when he was no longer a part of her life , at least she would have her memories . |
| 29 | She sprang away from Finn and it was no longer a pretence — she stumbled over the knotted fringe of the rug . |
| 30 | He would become again a Northern Ireland Protestant — though with a difference , certainly : he was no longer a resident ; he was learned ; he had the wonderful gifts both of imagination and a clear and analytical mind ; and above all his faith came of Grace to which he responded heroically , in patience and self-sacrifice — when he was aware of himself . |