Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] [be] no [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the difficulty , for the father , of accepting that he was no longer the only decision maker ; |
| 2 | It was as if the train journey itself , the old-fashioned intimate compartment in which they had found themselves , the freedom from interruptions and the tyranny of the telephone , the sense of time visibly flying , annihilated under the pounding wheels , not to be accounted for , had released both of them from a carefulness which had become so much a part of living that they were no longer aware of its weight until they let it slip from their shoulders . |
| 3 | Something — he was n't sure just what — which had caused the entire north to rise like yeast in sudden and furious ferment , the whole of industrial Lancashire and Yorkshire seething with militant men and women — highly militant , those women — on the march , carrying banners and loaves of bread on the end of sticks , singing hymns and psalms and chanting that it was no longer a matter of wages . |
| 4 | James 's message had been meant for herself , an oblique way of saying that he was no longer interested . |
| 5 | Hallstein himself in 1964 dismissed national sovereignty as a doctrine of ‘ yesteryear ’ , arguing that it was no longer true that ‘ the national unit , relying on itself , its own strength and skills , should be the final and only yardstick of the historical process ’ . |
| 6 | Notice that you can use this to fool people into thinking that they are no longer in MS-DOS . |
| 7 | In spite of the fact that since the Clean Air Act of 1956 , pollution caused by smoke has been greatly reduced to the benefit of those who live in the cities , we must not fool ourselves into thinking that there is no longer any problem . |
| 8 | The 1,400 delegates approved a resolution on Dec. 11 , declaring that it was no longer correct to blame the global hunger problem on a chronic shortage of food . |