Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | A third qualification is that modern contracts are no longer based on the nineteenth-century notion of freedom of contract . |
| 4 | Modern solicitors ' offices are no longer run in a leisurely way . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Waterways are no longer responding to enquiries . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | At about this time tights were no longer worn on stage : ‘ wet white ’ was used for the Girls ' legs . |
| 9 | Sunburst Books is no longer represented by ABS distributed by CBS . |
| 10 | It means that even gardens are no longer cared for in the despair that is felt . |
| 11 | Foreign business also has a more practical complaint : because of China 's credit squeeze , bills are no longer paid on time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When she opened her eyes the cowboys were no longer crouched by the boulder . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The second aspect of merit goods is where society believes that individuals are no longer acting in their own best interests . |
| 18 | New technologies meant that workers were no longer needed in such numbers , in many of the older industrial areas especially . |
| 19 | Bright colours were no longer confined to the ‘ fun ’ shoe as they had been in the Seventies . |
| 20 | Although today volcanoes are no longer regarded with such religious awe , their violent aspects are still widely publicized ; deservedly , since volcanic eruptions are amongst the finest of natural spectacles . |
| 21 | Police numbers and resources are no longer seen as a vade-mecum by the police or the Government ( as Hurd , for example , made clear in his speech to the Police Foundation Conference in Oxford on 11 April 1988 ) — hardly surprising after nine ‘ wasted ’ years . |
| 22 | The United Nations has found it much easier to undertake a peacekeeping role since the end of the cold war because its efforts are no longer frustrated by the clash between the super-powers . |
| 23 | Sounds are no longer sounds to me . |
| 24 | Strategic nuclear forces , " particularly those of the United States " , were still an essential deterrent , but nuclear artillery and ground-launched short-range nuclear missiles were no longer needed in Europe and would be eliminated . |
| 25 | The general social and political advantages of the newly enlarged audiences were obvious but in cultural terms what was really significant as far as the subsequent history of the movies was concerned was that the showmen who made and presented the movies were no longer thinking in terms of a homogeneous or class audience . |
| 26 | Auditors are no longer employed by the Secretary of State , although the commission itself is appointed by the Secretary of State after consultation with local authority associations and professional accountancy bodies , and he is empowered to issue directions which the commission must observe . |
| 27 | If a manager was addressed by his surname and subordinates by their first names the power of the manager would increase because subordinates are no longer treated as equals . |
| 28 | Abolitionists were no longer exposed in their use of public meetings ; indeed , compared with the disorder which sometimes accompanied agitation for parliamentary reform , large antislavery meetings were able to project the eminent respectability which could be attained by popular reform enterprise . |
| 29 | However , the successful operation of the snake was hindered by the adverse circumstances of the time : exchange rates were no longer pegged against the dollar ; there had been a massive increase in oil price which resulted in larger payments imbalances and severe exchange rate pressures ; domestic rates of inflation were showing a tendency to diverge markedly ; and the world economy was moving into recession . |
| 30 | His writings prior to departure make it abundantly clear that the image of the USSR firmly implanted in his mind was that of a country in full post-revolutionary expansion engaged in the construction of a new society , a new culture and a new man , a country in which social relations were no longer based on human exploitation , and in which the deathly oppression of an exploiting class had been eradicated . |