Example sentences of "longer possible [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 The company , which can send up to 15 tonnes of salmon and 500kgs of scallop meat a week to France , has now halted exports after its French haulier said it was no longer possible to insure the cargo .
2 The reformers , until 1964 mainly outside the House , argued that since the public wished to vote governments in or out of power and since every serious vote had become an issue of confidence , it was no longer possible to restore freer voting in order to improve the independence and power of the House .
3 However , under the new rules it is no longer possible to use the losses of one spouse to cover the gains of the other .
4 Following the Rent Act 1974 , once it was no longer possible to use furnished tenancies to avoid the full protection of the Rent Acts , advisers to landlords developed the idea of the " non-exclusive occupation " licence agreement " .
5 In this procedure b is said to be parallel transported from B to A. Comparison of local vectors in a curved space is less straightforward because it is no longer possible to set up a single Cartesian coordinate system to cover all space .
6 What are things coming to if it is no longer possible to spend time sailing and taking part in other water sports without subjecting yourself to the risk of such symptoms as rashes and vomiting ?
7 Furthermore for those borrowers who have eurobonds outstanding , it is no longer possible to issue bonds with such security in view of the negative pledge on the eurobond .
8 For Nizan it was no longer possible to shelter in the protective , disciplined , self-contained environment of school .
9 Also , it was no longer possible to take it into the Sadler 's Wells repertory , as had been intended .
10 Of course , when the high and low marks and are being used to indicate intonation it is no longer possible to mark two different levels of stress within the word .
11 Nor , however , did you see the river , and Willis would have to find something else to fill the great gap which would be left in his life when it was no longer possible to see the river traffic , passing and repassing .
12 It was no longer possible to see the world as developing towards socialism and international harmony .
13 As the depression began to affect West Coast loadings it soon became clear that it was no longer possible to sustain the level of service provided in the 1974 Glasgow electric timetable .
14 Perhaps his own impatient temperament made this especially essential in his case : I myself fled to the wilderness when it proved no longer possible to live harmoniously with men , who , admittedly , were a frequent obstacle to my inner joy .
15 He himself admits that both the continental staff and the locally recruited waitresses are skilful , but privately he regrets that it is no longer possible to find enough male British waiters , as he feels this would ‘ look better ’ .
16 It is no longer possible to maintain a Little England attitude in the new European community .
17 it is no longer possible to think the process of the development of the different levels of the whole in the same historical time .
18 The Peacock Committee was convinced that it was no longer possible to recommend ‘ no change ’ to either the licence fee system or the funding structure of broadcasting as a whole ; the differences between the two sources of revenue would create recurring crises for the BBC and put it at a competitive disadvantage compared to the ITV structure .
19 Service industries are now in a worse predicament than ever , because it is no longer possible to register even a business name in Britain .
20 It is no longer possible to found a reputation for scholarship on being good at spotting allusions .
21 David DuBon has had to battle with a notoriously difficult subject , and is not afraid to state the plain facts , such as : ‘ it is no longer possible to determine whether its present form is that of the original piece ’ ( Vol .
22 Even as they dodge through the traffic clogging Kiev 's main street , Kreshchatik , pedestrians will assure you that it is no longer possible to buy petrol .
23 During the pre-liberation troubles between India and Goa it was no longer possible to bring men over the frontier , therefore , instead of breaking with tradition , the family ceased to use the palanquins .
24 There comes a point when it is no longer possible to keep the boat on course with hull tilt alone .
25 The argument is that just as direct democracy is ruled out by the size of the modern state , so too once companies grow beyond a certain size it is no longer possible to involve all their members directly in the decisions concerning the running of the company .
26 After August 1939 it was no longer possible to have complete faith in a nation state which collaborated for whatever reason with fascism , even if that state happened to be the Soviet Union itself .
27 It is no longer possible to make claims to understand a culture simply by classifying it in terms of its relations to a present western culture .
28 First , he proposed that , since the functions of the state were such that it was no longer possible to impose a unified direction of society from the centre , there was a need for a territorial decentralization of power .
29 Today , it is no longer possible to imagine such a thing happening .
30 In an age in which the Church was living and functioning largely within more or less liberal , democratic societies and in which defence mechanisms such as the Index of forbidden books had ceased effectively to function , it was no longer possible to insulate Catholic society mentally from the world around it .
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