Example sentences of "[noun] be [adv] longer [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Term accounts are no longer offered by the society , but the share account is now paying only 1.88 p.c. net . |
| 2 | Back to basics , certainly , though anyone who imagines the ‘ basics ’ of forward play are any longer confined to scrum and line-out is wildly off the mark . |
| 3 | Unless used on ‘ Byelaw 30 ’ cisterns and fitted with a downturn in the operating lever ( so the float can easily be adjusted ) , piston-type ballvalves are no longer allowed on cold water cisterns unless they are fitted with a double-check valve . |
| 4 | A third qualification is that modern contracts are no longer based on the nineteenth-century notion of freedom of contract . |
| 5 | These four traditions have varied in eminence over time and Van Til argues that the claims on the curriculum are no longer based on a single source — a conclusion in line with the Munn Report . |
| 6 | Modern solicitors ' offices are no longer run in a leisurely way . |
| 7 | As we move into our twenties and thirties , hormones are no longer racing through the body like the clappers and , from time to time , the penis is more likely to cause embarrassment by its lack of activity than by its exuberance . |
| 8 | Waterways are no longer responding to enquiries . |
| 9 | The increase coincided with the escalation of pro-democracy protests and with political reform , and there were reports that border guards were no longer shooting on sight people caught attempting to cross the heavily fortified frontier . |
| 10 | At about this time tights were no longer worn on stage : ‘ wet white ’ was used for the Girls ' legs . |
| 11 | Admission to a partnership is no longer looked upon so frequently as in the past as a job for life either by the individual solicitor whose loyalty to the firm may well be strained by the availability elsewhere of fresh challenges for greater rewards or by the firm which will be reluctant to tolerate any falling off in the performance of its partners which may affect overall profit levels . |
| 12 | The girl having once experienced a fairy lovemaking is no longer contented in this world , and will pine and die for her fairy lover . |
| 13 | The poet is no longer regarded as a visionary or a genius ; he becomes a skilled worker who arranges , or rather , rearranges the material that he happens to find at his disposal . |
| 14 | Out of mainstream education perhaps for the rest of his school career , Balbinder is no longer defined as a problem . |
| 15 | Sunburst Books is no longer represented by ABS distributed by CBS . |
| 16 | After St George 's , almost all Unionist candidates ran without making promises to support the coalition ; this did not mean that all of them joined the diehard group when elected , but it showed that coalition was no longer seen to be a winning ticket . |
| 17 | It means that even gardens are no longer cared for in the despair that is felt . |
| 18 | Foreign business also has a more practical complaint : because of China 's credit squeeze , bills are no longer paid on time . |
| 19 | Just because their lives are no longer structured by employment or education , there is more space for a variety of life patterns among the elderly of any class background . |
| 20 | When she opened her eyes the cowboys were no longer crouched by the boulder . |
| 21 | From January 1990 famous exiles were no longer stripped of their Soviet citizenship : the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich , the opera diva Galina Vishnevskaya ( who was married to Rostropovich ) and the theatre director Yury Lyubimov were among the first to return as citizens . |
| 22 | While it may still be a rite of passage , it 's clear that marriage is no longer regarded as a journey without end . |
| 23 | Our influence is no longer confined to domestic issues . |
| 24 | The modern world has become dominated by the rational and technical society where specialisation in work is no longer related to traditional skills or crafts ( based in the home ) but to the economic and functional necessity of the marketplace . |
| 25 | Whatever the mechanism , the result is that : ( a ) the K + accumulated by H + , K + , ATPase can be recycled into the lumen , so that H + /K + exchange is no longer limited by availability of K + ; and ( b ) secretion of Cl - ions can accompany secretion of H + , thereby preserving electroneutrality . |
| 26 | His follow-up letter in the summer was answered by a brief note that stated that Sixsmith was no longer employed by the TLM . |
| 27 | When Stein studied the Cristofori-style action in the pianos of Johann Heinrich Silbermann , the check was no longer incorporated in the design . |
| 28 | The bands are no longer separated by two borders , only the wreath pattern is present ; furthermore , the chain-guilloche which borders the outer band now runs into that which encloses the whole circular design . |
| 29 | Editor , — The General Medical Council has decided that doctors who qualify in the United States and Canada are no longer exempt from the PLAB test . |
| 30 | One national paper reports its readers seven to one against closer ties with Europe ( such polls tend to attract more of the antis ) and a respected columnist bemoans the fact that cooked meats and pies are no longer sold at his favourite deli stall on Leeds market , apparently because of the dead hand of Europeanisation . |