Example sentences of "[adv] longer [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , someone with food intolerance will respond to an elimination diet within a week , whereas someone with candidiasis may take much longer to respond to an anti- Candida diet — the response is also more gradual and less dramatic . |
| 2 | Neither are the civic groupings planning to hang around much longer waiting for an inter-party meeting to establish common ground and communal tactics . |
| 3 | And , come to that , can we any longer rely on the received doctrine that it 's for the Chief Constable to decide on the allocation of resources ? ’ |
| 4 | It no longer felt like a life . |
| 5 | On the train ride home , the compartment no longer seemed like a compact travelling home . |
| 6 | The other , which is no longer turned toward the origin , affirms play and tries to pass beyond man and humanism … |
| 7 | And we can no longer rely on the extended family being dose at hand . |
| 8 | With the soaring call for its services — when the UN takes over the Somali operation on May 4th the number of peacekeepers in the field will increase from around 60,000 to nearly 90,000 — the organisation can no longer rely on the old faithfuls : countries that , either from idealism ( Canada and Scandinavia , for instance ) or from poverty ( Fiji , Nepal and many others ) , were glad to provide troops . |
| 9 | When the teacher inhibits the child from pointing and pretends not to be able to see the picture , the child understands that the communicative situation has changed , that she can no longer rely on the shared visual context and she makes her reference explicit ( the teddy ) , locates him verbally rather than by pointing to him ( on the chair ) and makes explicit how the second picture differs from the first ( there ai n't no teddy ) . |
| 10 | They concluded that BP Oil could no longer rely on the business environment to improve the company 's results . |
| 11 | But when it became known that someone ostensibly in the top echelon of the regime was no longer seen at the Ceauşescus ' palace at the nightly film shows or for chess , then whatever the victim 's ostensible rank , his own hangers-on would begin to look for another patron . |
| 12 | There can be no doubt that the PhD , no longer seen as a sign of unusually high scholarly achievement , has become simply a certificate of professional competence , and that intellectual standards have declined accordingly . |
| 13 | Police numbers and resources are no longer seen as a vade-mecum by the police or the Government ( as Hurd , for example , made clear in his speech to the Police Foundation Conference in Oxford on 11 April 1988 ) — hardly surprising after nine ‘ wasted ’ years . |
| 14 | Water is therefore no longer seen as a simple collection of individual water molecules , but as a complex random network of molecules linked together by hydrogen bonds and forming extensive three-dimensional structures which are continually changing and reorganizing . |
| 15 | New secretary Paul Birks of Mason 's Ironstone , who has taken over from Peter Masheter , said : ‘ Golf is no longer seen as a rich man 's sport and is accessible to all ages and pockets . |
| 16 | and so land reform was no longer seen as a means to achieve their end that they that and that it was n't the best policy to consolidate power , it was you needed to have the mass support there first so that 's why land reform was no longer seen as their goal so they did n't take it up at this point when one would expect them to pursue it . |
| 17 | Booth-capturing is no longer seen as an outrage and has become a normal part of electoral strategy , particularly in lawless Bihar . |
| 18 | People from all walks of life are joining the Buddhist faith , which , says Tabkay , is no longer seen as an eastern religion . |
| 19 | And what emerged from the response to the article is that reincarnation is no longer seen as the domain of cranks and weirdos . |
| 20 | ‘ The princes are no longer seen in the gardens , child — none as far as I know has had sight or sound of them for several weeks . |
| 21 | However , they no longer act in the same way . |
| 22 | If , as in the past , shepherds withhold information from their flock , the flock will no longer acquiesce in the process . |
| 23 | .. the passing of carriages is no longer heard in the streets . |
| 24 | I felt revolted by them and began to sleep in the hall , dragging a pillow and a wool blanket off the bed and leaving the room to them , in the hope that they would understand my anger , that they would no longer stay till the early hours of the morning , stepping over me as I lay asleep , leaving overflowing ashtrays and empty glasses and cans and bottles strewn about the floor . |
| 25 | In Washington , the administration has now let it be known that it will work for the softening of the amendment 's consequences , provided — and forgetting Kosovo for the moment — that Stipe Mesic , a Croat , is no longer obstructed by the Serbs from taking up the post of chairman ( for one year ) of Yugoslavia 's eight-member presidency . |
| 26 | Questions about what may be termed the aesthetics of a text continue to be posed , even though the aesthetic is no longer tied to a text 's autonomous integrity . |
| 27 | Perhaps it is because in isolation human beings achieve their true status ; they are no longer tied to an economic process which dominates their existence . |
| 28 | As the music business increasingly places so much importance on the look ( A & R men no longer listen to the music first : the priority of the A & R man is to envisage how the band will look on video ) so The Smiths abhor such methods . |
| 29 | According to sources close to BSB , the ‘ squariel ’ — the square , flat receiving dish — is no longer regarded as a problem . |
| 30 | From April 1990 a workplace nursery is no longer regarded as a ‘ benefit in kind ’ , and is not counted in the assessment of income tax . |