Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] longer [verb] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was a pretty , rather fleshy blonde , who revelled in the bohemian life of Montparnasse and enjoyed hanging round artists , posing for them , helping them to buy paints and cigarettes , studying intermittently at the Sorbonne until she had spent most of her inheritance and could no longer afford to pay for tuition . |
| 2 | It is never difficult to think of suitable gifts to take to elderly people who live alone , but apart from the obvious ones it is worth remembering that things like home-made cakes , biscuits , jam or marmalade which they may no longer bother to make for themselves are particularly appreciated . |
| 3 | This unexpected development was accompanied by a White House statement which said that " the nation can no longer afford to wait for Congress to act " on proposed legislation to allow inter-state banking . |
| 4 | STATE schools are being forced to turn away children whose parents can no longer afford to pay for private education . |
| 5 | The City Council bought the site from a scrap merchant , but it can no longer afford to pay for restoration work and Llanthony itself seems destined for the scrapheap . |
| 6 | Caterers can no longer afford to look for a machine that gives performance at any cost . |