Example sentences of "would [adv] longer be " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You 'd no longer be invisible ? ’
2 The increase in the average number of TDs per constituency was small : from 3.52 to 4.05 , but sufficient to ensure that no more bonuses as generous as those awarded to Fianna Fail in 1969 and 1977 would any longer be available .
3 He said by the time of the next election it would no longer be possible to cancel Trident .
4 Players would no longer be barred from playing in another country after a tour .
5 Complaining that the grass-roots party cadres had been excluded from decision-making , the Peking Daily called for new emphasis on the party 's role in economic as well as political matters : ‘ If the party only controls the party then it would no longer be a political class party but an amateur group for the masses , or a kind of club . ’
6 Peter Jenkins in The Guardian opined that ‘ it would no longer be amazing to see Mr Callaghan win by a whisker ’ .
7 In July 1987 Mr Lawson unilaterally announced a reduction in the meetings of the tripartite NEDC from ten to four meetings annually and in January 1989 the Secretary of State for Employment announced that the TUC would no longer be the sole body which could nominate trade unionists to the Training Commission and other official bodies .
8 ‘ Policing the most indentified dangerous substances would no longer be independent of government control — they will be controlled by government , ’ he said .
9 Rap , with its frequent assertions of power , would have to be put down , like some troublesome insurrection , or would no longer be necessary , in the new , egalitarian , ego-supportive state of play .
10 Electricity generation would no longer be the major contributor to the greenhouse effect and its fuel would be ‘ sustainable ’ .
11 It would no longer be damaged by the two-facedness of its fuel .
12 Then , bizarrely , he announced that the perk of a workplace nursery would no longer be taxable .
13 Then congressmen would no longer be resenting the arrival of Japanese investors in America .
14 Investment would no longer be subject to an annual ceiling set by the Treasury ( which , for example , is currently stopping BR buying up-to-date Networker trains to help relieve congestion on lines in Kent ) .
15 On 9 November 1984 I set out for consultation a list of branded drugs which would no longer be prescribed under the health service .
16 It was deeply felt that the economy would no longer be viable and that demand would decrease since the aged would be unable to afford the type of demand required to sustain industry .
17 The day after the elections , Enoch Powell , the Official Unionist MP for South Down , put the formal touch to the end of the coalition by announcing to the Speaker of the House of Commons that Dr Paisley would no longer be welcome in the office used by the Official Unionist members .
18 Now , if he left service , it was true they would no longer be able to afford to remit the regular payments .
19 I was interested to read that none other than Simon Halliday ( Harlequins ) regretted that with the onset of league rugby he would no longer be able to compare his skills with those of his counterparts in Llanelli or Cardiff — he would , however , still have that opportunity with the cream of Scotland and Ireland .
20 The crofter could apply for the ‘ de-crofting ’ of his land , but if this were approved he would no longer be eligible for the many special rights and privileges enjoyed by crofting tenants .
21 If the sign were a real knife , clearly the knife would no longer be a sign but the thing itself …
22 Indeed it could be argued that if there were nothing to count against it then it would no longer be faith !
23 At this stage , part of the aquifer would no longer be saturated .
24 Hal B. Wallis , who hired me , was a very shrewd man who recognized that the studio system was over and in five years ' time it would no longer be there . ’
25 There was always the possibility , of course , that his suggestion of a fortnight ago may have been a whim of the moment , and he would no longer be approving of the idea .
26 The regiment would no longer be a one-man band , but would inevitably become increasingly absorbed into the mainstream of army operations , with resulting misunderstanding of what its role really was .
27 More important , fee-paying parents in other areas ( and in schools like Thame ) would no longer be able to buy a grammar-school place for children who had not ‘ passed the scholarship ’ .
28 My rose-growing Surrey headmaster ( by now retired ) came to Banbury for a weekend , and as we drove off to the Cotswolds he tried to persuade me that the implication of all this was that secondary schools would no longer be a worthwhile place for teachers with academic interests : all the good work would hereafter be done within an inflated system of higher education .
29 They considered George Bush 's insistence on the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait as a condition which destroyed the basis for negotiations , as once withdrawal had taken place there would no longer be a conflict to negotiate .
30 It would cease to be recognizable as the river which the local people enjoyed , but it would become a very efficient drain , so that their sitting-rooms would no longer be ruined periodically , and farmers with land adjacent to the river would be able to grow more and better crops to feed the very people who were complaining .
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