Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] longer be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , it was decided that he should no longer be fed , thus ensuring that he would die . |
| 2 | ‘ Principally , ’ I continued , ‘ it has been felt that Father should no longer be asked to wait at table , whether or not guests are present . ’ |
| 3 | Young offenders should no longer be cared for by social services departments according to one Tory MP . |
| 4 | The promotion of such a product should no longer be tolerated . |
| 5 | Shockingly anomalous magnitudes should no longer be tolerated . |
| 6 | In that case it should no longer be defined as a ‘ dog ’ . |
| 7 | 19 should no longer be understood as requiring any such investigation in the Sunday trading cases . |
| 8 | The defenders ' questions are much more difficult — but they should no longer be evaded . |
| 9 | Out-door paupers should no longer be sent away with a sum of money obviously too little for survival . |
| 10 | Eight resolutions were put before the Congress , the most crucial being the first two which proposed that since education of deaf children by the proven Oral Method was far superior , the use of sign language in education should no longer be used . |
| 11 | However they should no longer be used for summative assessment and need not be retained for inspection by the Subject Assessor . |
| 12 | Indeed in recent years the CNAA have suggested that the term ‘ non-standard ’ should no longer be used , since this implies a standard from which other students are deviating ; instead we should be considering a range of qualifications , all of which may be suitable as preparations for entry to higher education . |
| 13 | You no longer pay national insurance contributions on your earnings , and the DHSS will tell your employer that they should no longer be deducted . |
| 14 | I do not for my part find the objections in principle to be strong and I would certainly be prepared to agree the rule should no longer be adhered to were it not for the practical consideration to which I have referred and which my noble and learned friend agrees to be of real substance . |
| 15 | Er in very briefly and I shall er expand the argument a min in a minute , my amendments five , eight and eleven provide that the size of a police authority should no longer be restricted to sixteen members , but should be er er by order er a somewhere between sixteen and twenty-four members and that two-thirds of those members should be er appoint er er amen appoint appointed by local authorities in the area concerned . |
| 16 | Third , there is the issue of the party manifesto for a general election and the idea that this should no longer be drawn up just by the leader on the basis of informal consultations . |
| 17 | This argument was persuasively propounded by the director of the Hastings Center for Medical Ethics , who concluded that ‘ … after a person has lived out a natural life span [ eg , into the late 70s or early 80s ] , medical care should no longer be oriented to resisting death … [ but ] will be limited to the relief of suffering ’ . |
| 18 | The group , which includes a barrister , a law professor and representatives of the police and social services , also suggests that in rape and other sexual assault cases , judges should no longer be required to direct the jury about the danger of convicting the accused on the uncorroborated evidence of the alleged victim . |
| 19 | Economy Nigel Lawson , Chancellor of the Exchequer , sparked a political dispute by proposing mortgage interest payments should no longer be included in the Retail Price Index ( RPI ) , a move that would lower the apparent inflation rate . |
| 20 | DRUG addicts and ‘ dossers ’ are being considered by the Government among groups who should no longer be counted as unemployed . |
| 21 | What this meant was that sitting MPs should no longer be reselected automatically by local parties just before a general election was held . |
| 22 | The British citizen must no longer be denied the fair voting systems enjoyed by the citizens of every other European country . |
| 23 | The children in the system must no longer be used as guinea pigs . ’ |
| 24 | Accordingly , it might no longer be thought necessary to distinguish marital from non-marital rape in the way suggested in the Working Paper since the public and family interest could be taken into account by the Crown Prosecutor with guidance from the Director . |
| 25 | However , the Left has ducked the problem of widespread fear of violence within the working class , arguing that violence is the result of deprivation — once the people are no longer deprived they 'll no longer be depraved . |
| 26 | Although the heredity principle still has its proponents in some quarters , few would admit that it could any longer be defended . |
| 27 | Babies were not the only people whose rights were being demanded at the end of the Second World War ; other groups , too , submerged in anonymous poverty through years of unemployment , had in wartime received for the first time their fair share both of work and of food , and were now making it clear that neither malnutrition nor the grinding degradation of worklessness could any longer be tolerated by the ‘ lower classes ’ of the victorious nations . |
| 28 | The international aspect continued to be of importance and was one of the reasons why the Nationalist — a very costly venture — was kept going even when its existence could no longer be justified on any other grounds . |
| 29 | But even before the uprisings of 1956 , Nikita Khrushchev had come to the conclusion that such overt exploitation could no longer be justified in the interests of the USSR or the development of the region as a whole . |
| 30 | After the task of unification had been accomplished , and the despotic methods of absolutism could no longer be justified , these elements came toward with the idea of a separation of power . |