Example sentences of "[noun] [that] it could [adv] longer " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that we never reach the position that I have sometimes , although not often , met in my constituency , when I have received a phone call from a private home to the effect that it could no longer keep a patient who had perhaps become doubly incontinent . |
| 2 | The assembly of merchants had become of little value as a tax-granting body not just because of the hostility of the commons but also because Edward 's monopolistic schemes had so divided the mercantile community that it could no longer speak with one voice . |
| 3 | One speaker was introduced with the sobriquet that his ambition ‘ was never to become involved in Unix ’ , a more general view being that it could no longer be ignored , even if little good might come of it ! |
| 4 | A major influence was undoubtedly the personality of the dean himself , but the essential catalysts were the decision by the department of anatomy that it could no longer continue to operate two separate curricula — one for the traditional course and one for the parallel track — and the decision by several of the charitable funders of the new pathway that future grants would be available only if the scheme was adopted throughout the school . |
| 5 | After that , the Minoans appear either to have lost interest in temple-worship , or to have restructured their economy in such a way that it could no longer sustain — or no longer needed — large temple-complexes . |