Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] longer " in BNC.
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| 1 | From just £6.95 a month the Sun Alliance Personal Accident Plan gives you the reassurance of large cash payments at a most difficult time — when you may no longer be able to earn a living yourself . |
| 2 | If you do n't , your emotional strength will gradually be sapped , to the point when you will no longer be able to give her the support she requires , and the whole arrangement may collapse around you . |
| 3 | She found the conversation embarrassing and wondered if the time had come when she could no longer avoid asking him to come and see her new house . |
| 4 | J. and I spent that Christmas at our separate homes , but were back on camp for the New Year celebrations , the first new year of peacetime for seven years , and as 1945 drew to a close most of us were beginning to look tentatively ahead to the future when we would no longer be bound by the rules and regulations which had fenced us in for so long , and to wonder where we would all be in another twelve months . |
| 5 | Young people approaching the age when they would no longer be the formal responsibility of the local authorities became the primary consumers of residential care for several reasons : first , many had been placed with a family and temporary readmission to residential care was needed when such placements broke down ; second , some did not wish to join a new family and preferred group living amongst other young people and appointed caregivers ; and third , some were admitted to a residential setting for help with specific problems or as part of a strategy to prepare them for independent living . |
| 6 | And when they could no longer do so , they were more likely to become independent lodgers than to move in under their own children 's roof . |
| 7 | A Stoke pottery manager 's parents retired to the south-west , but returned when they could no longer live independently , moving ‘ to each of our houses in turn . |
| 8 | When they could no longer claim to act with royal backing they were dangerously vulnerable . |
| 9 | When they could no longer claim to act with royal backing they were dangerously vulnerable . |
| 10 | Tenants need help decorating their homes when they can no longer do it themselves , and owner occupiers on low incomes need both financial and practical help to adapt , repair and improve their homes to suit their needs , or just to make them habitable . |
| 11 | Women bear children in rapid succession when young and when they can no longer face the prospect of another child , they choose sterilization because it exempts them from having to take conscious and continuing responsibility for their own fertility in a culture which constantly denies women this right . |
| 12 | Some body , when it could no longer be persuaded to ski down a mountainside . |
| 13 | When it could no longer be denied that there was a recession , the Chancellor retreated to his second line of defence . |
| 14 | From 1935 Noel was increasingly oppressed by the diabetes from which he suffered , blindness , and a cancerous growth , but nothing could dampen his spirits , and when he could no longer sing the liturgy , he learned it off by heart . |
| 15 | When he could no longer contain the need to relieve himself , he decided against pissing in the doorway . |
| 16 | Third , a doctor 's obligation when he can no longer hold back the approach of death is to make the patient comfortable , including easing his pain . |
| 17 | He speaks of the trouble he has in getting paid , his fear of old age and its isolation and poverty when he can no longer work ; and he describes the privations and pains of his working conditions . |