Example sentences of "longer [vb -s] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the political and ideological instances are just as necessary for the existence of a social formation , they seem to be equally determining , and the economic ‘ base ’ no longer looks to be especially basic . |
| 2 | ‘ France no longer wants to be a country of immigration , ’ says Charles Pasqua , the interior minister . |
| 3 | The screen no longer needs to be fully multiplexed . |
| 4 | A propos , one is tempted to suggest that he reflect further on the Walther Benjamin question of the aura which perhaps no longer needs to be ‘ blocked ’ since it is historically lost . |
| 5 | A television repairer no longer needs to be a specialist in one particular brand . |
| 6 | something that it , either it is successful in itself and it no , no longer needs to be subsidized or something that they want to see go to the wall , if they want to see something going to the wall , it |
| 7 | Kinnock had all the best jokes : sad fact that this no longer seems to be considered important . |
| 8 | Once the link between property ownership and control is severed there no longer seems to be any compelling reason why the shareholders should receive all the profits of the company or why corporate managers should run the company in their interest alone . |
| 9 | In The Act of Reading , Wolfgang Iser argues that the literary work should be understood as a means of communication rather than as a representation of the world : ‘ It is a vital feature of literary texts that they do not lose their ability to communicate ; indeed , many of them can still speak even when their message has long since passed into history and their meaning no longer seems to be of importance ’ ( 1978:13 ) . |
| 10 | Barclays Bank plc took the step in March 1984 of announcing that it would aim to keep its base rate within ¼ — ⅜%; of the prevailing three month interbank rate , but there no longer seems to be a very precise linkage between the two rates . |
| 11 | In spite of recent forestry around Toftingall , fish are still there , but for how much longer remains to be seen . |
| 12 | That is to say they constructed a picture of the world , a picture which one oneself no longer believes to be viable . |