Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [adv] longer " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He says that the lions will not stay any longer . |
| 2 | But if England lose the second Test , they will need a new captain as well as a new-look team Gooch would surely not survive any longer . |
| 3 | Three because the Chief Fire Officer can not guarantee any longer er that if he only despatched the one which is necessary , it would actually get through the traffic . |
| 4 | ‘ We can not wait any longer , ’ the Soviet leader said . |
| 5 | Maybe seven minutes had passed but she dared not wait any longer because who knew when the miners might give up and come back ? |
| 6 | As she searched for them in her pocket , Oliver could not wait any longer and ran into her arms . |
| 7 | We could not wait any longer . |
| 8 | If you can not wait any longer to buy , the next step is to work out what you can afford to borrow , and from there the likely price range of your new house . |
| 9 | ‘ Assuming the situation is as bad as we are hearing , we can not wait much longer , ’ said the spokesman , Commander Barry Frewer . |
| 10 | The German Social Democratic leaders , Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel , were also in the first instance critical , since the Polish argument seemed to imply that the territorial expansionism of imperialism in general , and Prussia in particular , did not matter any longer beside the development of supranational class unity . |
| 11 | Indeed , it was an achievement that they managed it just long enough to clinch the Heineken title and then , once it did not matter any longer began to lose games at a rate that would have been unthinkable during the previous years of unbroken triumph . |
| 12 | Psychologism , through its influence in marriage guidance and churches , and also through its effects in the world of work — in personnel management , for example — is able to link the two spheres in a way religion used to be able to do but can not do any longer . |
| 13 | He was thinking of Hilbert 's shot-gun that he still had but which he should perhaps not keep much longer . |
| 14 | Our country will not tolerate much longer the weakness of those who are leading it … |
| 15 | I have tried to bring him to me and failed and now I can not hope any longer . |
| 16 | And that 's left us in some er , difficulties frankly , because one of the things that er , the C E C was recommending , that work of a strategic nature , which at the moment is undertaken by industrial conferences should be moved over to be dealt with by section conferences and that meant that a number of industrial conferences need not meet any longer , so we would avoid the duplication , the overlap and the waste . |
| 17 | The Committee in fact supported a ban on advertising , going on to conclude that the Government can not procrastinate any longer on the issue . |
| 18 | The belief that men alone represent humanity , whereas a woman is an individual who only represents herself , never absolute , does not wash any longer . |
| 19 | It may not rage much longer . |
| 20 | I will not dwell much longer on conformal mapping ( this is incidentally the term most often used for describing the method ) but will give a few more examples . |
| 21 | I can tell our friends in the Box that after next May that will not happen any longer . |
| 22 | She knew she could not resist much longer . |
| 23 | She said I ca n't cope no more , she said I just can not cope any longer and I said you must n't feel like that I said you 'll break all our hearts , I said it 's , life will never be the same again , I said come on home with me , forget about this day , I said tomorrow we 'll come and pick your birds up cos she 's got two beautiful parrots , she 's got a Mulican white with peach |
| 24 | When my master noticed this , he thought I would not live much longer . |
| 25 | ‘ He will not live much longer . ’ |
| 26 | Erich Honecker , the former East German leader given refuge in the Chilean embassy in Moscow in December , sought permission to travel to relatives in Chile on compassionate grounds , claiming that the condition of his health was such that he might not live much longer . |
| 27 | It does not seem any longer to be a system of dominance and subordination . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | For it can not last much longer , and for us the words of the Führer are gospel . ’ |
| 30 | NORWICH need to find their touch in front of goal or their Premier League lead might not last much longer than the New Year celebrations . |