Example sentences of "can [adv] longer [vb infin] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can no longer represent their wills or their expression . |
| 2 | Our current cultural experience has revealed that the premise of a grand historical narrative presenting a unified cultural progression centred on interests that are male and European , and only dealing with activities engaged in by the minority in social and political control , can no longer compel our assent . |
| 3 | Her poem ‘ Dorinda at her Glass ’ describes a faded beauty who can no longer marshall her charms . |
| 4 | And a few lines later we read : ‘ A master who turns out his ass or his dog because the animal can no longer earn its keep manifests a small mind ’ ( 1963 : 240 ) . |
| 5 | But he says , ‘ vendors can no longer measure their credibility as a service supplier by the number of services they offer to the market ’ . |
| 6 | Since Goneril and Regan can no longer inflict their evil upon Lear while he is absent , they have to eventually turn against each other . |
| 7 | He or she can feel a very real , very deep sense of nausea at the intrusion , and often find that they can no longer regard their house as home . |
| 8 | We flagged it up , we 've now told the force that we can no longer meet our A L O requirements , and that 's it 's not a question of being awkward , we will not have the the A L O's the A L O's to do it |
| 9 | The Commissioner referred to the letter to Age Concern England in 1988 , from Nicholas Scott ( now Minister for Social Security and Disabled People ) which stated , ‘ In the last analysis , where a person in a home can no longer meet his fees but still requires nursing home or residential home care it will fall to the NHS or local authority as appropriate to provide that care if it is not otherwise available to the person ’ . |
| 10 | The government can no longer close its eyes to the health facts . |
| 11 | The effect of this is to turn us upside-down and virtually blindfold us , since we can no longer see our eyes , which are hidden in the blank space between the mirrors . |
| 12 | The anguish of being parted from her beloved sons William and Harry will be made even worse by the knowledge that she can no longer share her troubles with her father . |
| 13 | He lost entitlement to free prescriptions ; he also had to pay £24 for dental treatment , and he can no longer claim his hospital fares unless they cost more than £8.50 . |
| 14 | Essentially the Finance Act 1986 has left the IHTA 1984 provisions intact but there are a number of changes , the most substantial one being that if an individual gives property to another individual , or an accumulation and maintenance trust , or a trust for the disabled and survives the gift by seven years and the gift is not subject to reservations ( the taxpayer can no longer have his cake and eat it ) no inheritance tax at all is payable . |
| 15 | But Mr Smith can no longer order his MPs to agree . |
| 16 | THE French love to smoke and it will come as a shock to them that they can no longer enjoy their Gauloises cigarettes in public . |