Example sentences of "[be] [adv] longer [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | When in the early days pilgrims gathered to hold the feast at Gilgal , perhaps their celebrations included a procession round the ruined mound of Jericho , where no walls were any longer to be seen above ground , with the blowing of sacred trumpets of rams ' horns , and the solemn carrying of the ark . |
| 2 | These verderers were no longer to be officers of the Crown administering the forest law on its behalf . |
| 3 | The Council had by this stage resolved the issue of its degree classification , so that separate degrees with separate admission for honours and ordinary students were no longer to be offered . |
| 4 | Nineteenth-century legs were no longer to be clad in fancy hose , and by 1810 with most of even the skilled stockingers crowded into the plain branch , prices and wages began to tumble . |
| 5 | He had been trying , he said , to arm the government with " preventative , defensive , and repressive measures which were no longer to be found in the earlier legislation on censorship " . |
| 6 | If services are no longer to be held , even irregularly , there may still be a local farmer or former parishioner who is willing to carry out basic maintenance . |
| 7 | But I must readjust to the new and increasingly painful realization that this man is no longer to be trusted , not even in the smallest detail . |
| 8 | However , the C compiler now has to be bought separately as it is no longer to be bundled with Solaris : SunPro claims that it is no longer a necessary item for customers . |
| 9 | One line of evidence is the fact that severe ‘ inner city ’ deprivation is no longer to be found just in older urban areas but also in the outer council-housing estates on the edges of cities which were built to house inner city residents displaced by renewal programmes ( CES Ltd , 1985 ) . |
| 10 | In this context , then , approaches to education must begin from the notion , articulated by André Gorz and others , that ours is a post-industrial society where paid work on a full-time basis is no longer to be seen as the norm , and where ‘ education for life ’ rather than ‘ training for jobs ’ should be the objective . |
| 11 | If art is no longer to be considered as of a different order than life , then the idea of aesthetic avant-gardes is questioned . |
| 12 | Sheep dipping in the UK is no longer to be compulsory , in the light of evidence that the organophosphorous pesticides used in the annual dip may be a health hazard . |
| 13 | Soon Jerusalem was no longer to be seen in Dorset 's green and pleasant land . |
| 14 | Through such processes , it was felt , the basis of public law was no longer to be rooted in command but rather in organization . |
| 15 | The basis was no longer to be the palace scaled down , but the cottage extended : ‘ In this view of a villa , the dwelling is to be considered as only an amplification of the cottage . ’ |
| 16 | I was no longer to be an article of decoration , however . |
| 17 | As a result of one recommendation , the company was no longer to be totally run from Wales , but broken up into smaller profit centres ; four separate operating divisions were proposed , each with its own board comprising the principal managers within that division . |
| 18 | Their association was no longer to be kept secret and , anyway , Laura denied that he had come . |
| 19 | They featured ( i ) the reinstatement of the Ministry of Justice ( abolished in 1966 ) , the minister having the right to overturn court rulings ; ( ii ) the guaranteeing to defendants of the assistance on demand of a defence lawyer , including at the investigation stage ; ( iii ) a reduction in the number of capital offences from 34 to 11 ( retaining as capital offences treason , espionage , terrorism , murder and " economic crime " such as sabotage and theft of state property ) , and the exclusion of women from capital punishment ; ( iv ) clearer definition of the crime of agitation and propaganda against the state ( which was no longer to be a capital offence ) , in order to prevent its abuse by the authorities ; ( v ) the redefinition of internment and deportation as penal rather than administrative sanctions ( i.e. requiring a court ruling rather than merely a local authority order ) ; and ( vi ) the introduction of remission for prisoners for good behaviour . |