Example sentences of "be [adv] longer able [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Indian had nothing to do but obey ; and whoever has formed the habit of passive obedience ends by being no longer able to act for himself and comes to love the yoke that is laid upon him . |
| 2 | Several mentioned that in recent years the rate of voluntary leaving had decreased so that they were no longer able to rely upon increasing or slowing down the rate of recruitment to maintain their labour forces at the desired level . |
| 3 | When older people were no longer able to fend for themselves , they became a burden of no further value , and often ended their lives despised and in extreme poverty . |
| 4 | Of course , that leaves us with the problem raised in the first chapter — the extent to which such old people feel they are no longer able to engage in transactions which benefit others as well as themselves . |
| 5 | It usually starts because a much-loved mare is no longer able to work under saddle but could perhaps produce a foal . |
| 6 | According to this reading , the repetition of episodes and the lack of a linear structure can be regarded as being in keeping with the formal realism of a narrative which is being conducted by someone whose overwrought state of mind colours his perception of the world around him , and who is no longer able to distinguish between imagination and reality . |
| 7 | The dynamic driving-force of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ allowed , in fact , no stabilization or ‘ normalization ’ , but rather conditioned circumstances in which the traditional ‘ ruling class ’ became ever more subsumed in and dependent upon the ‘ behemoth ’ of the Nazi State which it was no longer able to control in its mad rush to destruction . |
| 8 | Her plans to move away from London meant that she was no longer able to continue as director of the Display Team and she was warmly thanked for everything she had done in the past . |
| 9 | By the 1960s the London ring 's increase had fallen and was no longer able to compensate for core losses , leading to a massive net loss in the SMLA as a whole . |
| 10 | Recently , she had started thinking the future was hopeless and that she was no longer able to look after her husband and daughter properly . |