Example sentences of "[adv] longer [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the West should know that , however long it takes to end the battle against the Iraqi tyrant , it will take much longer to end the bitterness he has tapped in the unhappy Middle East . |
| 2 | Secondly , nobody could any longer advance the belief that sheer production — the worship of the Gross National Product — was the final test of a society 's economic vigour and success . |
| 3 | But the establishment of these facts is only one step on the way to a consideration of whether , in all the circumstances , the situation created by the delay is such as to make it an unfair employment of the powers of the court any longer to hold the defendant to account . |
| 4 | We can not afford any longer to waste the abilities of 80 per cent of all the children in the maintained system by relegating them to a ‘ worse ’ form of education . |
| 5 | Rather however than acknowledge that the Irish state , which refused any longer to play the Commonwealth game and declared itself a republic , was therefore a foreign country , Britain proceeded to divide the world not as hitherto into two portions — British subjects and aliens — but into three — British subjects , aliens and Irish . |
| 6 | In future , CITES will no longer recognize the existence of " pre-ban " stocks . |
| 7 | If the centre could no longer deliver the goods , reasoned many Ukrainians and Belorussians , the union itself no longer had any purpose . |
| 8 | ‘ I just ca n't take it any more , ’ he said , much as Bobby Lavender could no longer endure the life of a gangster and watch a generation vanish . |
| 9 | It can be argued that the imperfections of the market will become increasingly important after firms have exceeded their ‘ debt capacity ’ and lenders of funds no longer perceive the equity financing as an adequate cushion in the event of liquidation . |
| 10 | She no longer felt the presence of anyone on the terrace above her . |
| 11 | She no longer felt the cold , or worried about the unlit passage . |
| 12 | His eyelids drooped and his limbs no longer felt the bitter chill ; they were merely numbed and heavy . |
| 13 | He no longer felt the need to borrow cars and go lifting round the shops to relive the boredom . |
| 14 | I no longer craved sweet things , no longer felt the need to binge and have only cheated twice ( and I mean one chocolate — not the whole box as before ) . |
| 15 | I no longer thought the fortune-teller would foretell only good things , for the girl had a cruel face . |
| 16 | You could no longer do the things I 'd taken for granted , like making a cup of tea and sitting down for a gossip when I came in from college . |
| 17 | It is significant that when the stimuli are modified to make that sort of strategy unworkable , for example by surrounding pairs of upright and inverted triangles with broad rings , tree shrews lacking visual cortex can no longer do the discriminations , whereas normal animals can . |
| 18 | In these civilised times , husbands are no longer given the right to beat their wives ( and in earlier centuries , even kill them ) , but society , as well as biology , still places the female in a subordinate role . |
| 19 | The reason it was suffering a decline was because its product was no longer meeting the aspirations of the young mums in this country , and while other companies were improving their product ranges Mothercare had become stuck in a groove , because the very competent man who ran it really did n't know how to go about improving the product . |
| 20 | Bowe , who says he no longer recognises the WBC , defended the IBF and WBA titles with a first-round knockout of Michael Dokes on February 6 . |
| 21 | The company needed a million dollars a day simply to function and could no longer generate the money . |
| 22 | One can either see externalization as undoing this process and therefore no longer serving the ego in its defensive purpose , or one can see the psychotic remodelling of reality which occurs , for instance , in hallucination , as an all-too-successful externalization . |
| 23 | Morality , religion , metaphysics , all the rest of ideology and their corresponding forms of consciousness , thus no longer retain the semblance of independence . |
| 24 | The excitement of that particular visualizing can at times be intense and I now no longer miss the arrow storms . |
| 25 | No one could have known that he no longer heard the park sounds for the pounding in his temples , or that his feet felt iron-clad as he walked away from the woman he longed to hold in his arms . |
| 26 | When he has answered that question , he will no longer feel the need to control others . |
| 27 | When Maman came back , even if it was tomorrow , the telling would no longer match the moment . |
| 28 | That has now changed Eastern arts no longer support the gallery now one obvious reason for that is the gallery started so well because of the enthusiasm from a number of professional people who came along and gave their advice and much of their time and such a body of people has not been called upon for a number of years now and once again a request to discuss this with Mr was refused . |
| 29 | Newspapers no longer serve the historian mainly as a chronicle of reported fact , but also provide material which may illuminate that culture of the majority previously so hard to observe . |
| 30 | He left behind him a police force outraged by his treachery and a judicial establishment unable to believe that , for the first time , a South African policeman was prepared to tell all about the dirty tricks departments , the hit squads , the assassination detachments and the enormous , shabby , meritorious , violent conspiracy so interwoven into the blood and guts of the South African security services that its agents can no longer tell the difference between criminal pursuits and active police work . |