Example sentences of "[adv] longer [vb past] to be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , when the Ashbury Railway Company ran into financial problems , they declared that they no longer wished to be bound by their contract with Riche . |
| 2 | When I reached 24 I no longer wished to be tied to my little and limited taste . |
| 3 | With the advent of agricultural owner-occupancy in the years after the Second World War and the departure of the landlords or their factors , their authority no longer had to be sought . |
| 4 | After six weeks Moz began to mellow , and the headstall no longer had to be kept on him . |
| 5 | There were other ways in which the years 1938–43 can be seen as a continuum in which reforming hopes of the interwar years no longer had to be deferred . |
| 6 | There came a stage when the songwriter no longer wanted to be bound by the agreement so he sought a declaration that it was contrary to public policy and therefore unenforceable . |
| 7 | The message Fernando Collor de Mello brought with him was that Brazil , where he would take over from President Sarney in mid-March , no longer wanted to be tagged as a Third World nation . |