Example sentences of "[conj] be [adv] longer [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the old weaving districts ( Kazak , Shirvan , Kuba , Baku , Karabagh , Gendje , Talish , Moghan , Daghestan and Derbend ) , villages and towns ( Erivan , Chichi , Fachralo , etc ) either no longer exist under their traditional names or are no longer associated with the rugs marketed under their names . |
| 2 | He clearly understood that the postmodern audience is radically different from previous audiences in that it brings to the marketplace a set of ideal interests that are no longer connected with meanings , but in which demand has become increasingly oriented to detached , shallow , and meaningless signifiers that he obligingly produced . |
| 3 | In the geographical section of the unpublished Essay of 1844 outlining his theory of evolution , he assumed that , at a time of generally colder climate , the arctic plants would spread southwards , driving out the temperate species that were no longer adapted to the conditions . |
| 4 | For industrial society has made a strange covenant with humanity : it has promised us that we can exist independently of nature , in the gilded cocoon of a technosphere that is no longer tuned to the archaic necessities of seed-time , harvest and the vagaries of the seasons . |
| 5 | When men live in the transcendent they become lost to the world ; it is as if they speak an unknown language and are no longer understood by other men . |
| 6 | As in the rest of Europe , breeders are now looking for young stock with high genetic potential and are no longer settling for the fancy animal with a borderline production pedigree . |
| 7 | This is after all what the first balletmasters did when professionals appeared on stage and were no longer surrounded by the court where all eyes were focused on the king ( see page 76 ) . |
| 8 | One of the older professional methods , the use of the gin trap , has been phased out and is no longer allowed by law . |
| 9 | I passed by , and was no longer recognised by anyone ; the unknown children did not smile at me ; and I dared not ask what had become of those I had known , whom I feared to recognise in these bent men exhausted by life . |
| 10 | She was accountable to no one and was no longer relied upon by anyone . |
| 11 | It still survives , and has retained vestiges of its water wheels , but is no longer worked as a mill , having become a restaurant . |
| 12 | The rain fell as heavily as ever but was no longer compressed by the wind into a solid curtain . |