Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] longer [vb infin] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Publishers should no longer see the sale as a way of trying to sell the unsaleable , ’ said BML . |
| 2 | Secondly , nobody could any longer advance the belief that sheer production — the worship of the Gross National Product — was the final test of a society 's economic vigour and success . |
| 3 | By the autumn of 1967 the British government itself could no longer avoid the issue of devaluation . |
| 4 | I could no longer distinguish the house , and even the boat-house , much nearer , was lost in the shadows . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The US , faced by the revival of European and Japanese competition , by inflation and the costs of the Vietnam war , could no longer remain the foundation stone of a world currency system and the dollar had been ‘ floated ’ in August 1971 . |
| 7 | A creditor could no longer stop the release of anyone , however short their confinement , who was willing to pay what he owed . |
| 8 | By 1984 the Financial Times issue of 13 February was reporting Iran as cutting imports since the country 's ports and internal distribution services could no longer handle the flood of goods destined for the country . |
| 9 | Her poor father might still like his lunch on time , even though he could no longer hold a fork and had to be helped to eat . |
| 10 | ( However , in this particular case , Mrs Hohne 's transfer to the new premises resulted in both her status and pay being reduced as she could no longer hold the post of manageress because there already was a person in this position in the new premises . |
| 11 | if these young men possessed traces of the Beastblood , it was from so far back that it could not be measured , and it was so slight that it could no longer hold the power to call upon the beasts for aid . |
| 12 | Nearly all the canine members of the police dog section are former unwanted pets donated by families who for a variety of reasons found the could no longer offer a home to man 's best friend . |
| 13 | He became increasingly preoccupied with his mistress , Alice Perrers , and could no longer offer the leadership which had united the nobility behind him in the 1340s and 1350s . |
| 14 | Ten years ago the RSPCA had a cash crisis which meant Nick could no longer patrol the market . |
| 15 | When he could no longer contain the need to relieve himself , he decided against pissing in the doorway . |
| 16 | She welcomed the tea she made and said , when her daughter could no longer contain the fact of her marathon , ‘ Oh there was no need to hurry like that , darling . |
| 17 | The Commissioner states in his report : ‘ Because it seemed to me that the Minister 's letter implied that the NHS had an absolute duty to provide care for the complainant 's father once it became clear that he could no longer meet the nursing home fees , I asked the DoH for clarification of the legal position and invited their general views . ’ |
| 18 | There came a day shortly afterwards when I could no longer ignore the fact that he was losing his mind . |
| 19 | There are no bureaucrats going round counting the jobs that never happened , the jobs that went away or the small firms that have packed up because they could no longer make a profit under the new controls and restrictions on their work force . |
| 20 | It would be most unfortunate if , as a result of this new work , we could no longer make the statement in good faith ’ . |
| 21 | It also seems clear from the case that a car could no longer answer the description ‘ new ’ once the mileage it had travelled under its own power significantly exceeded the distance from the point of manufacture to the dealer . |
| 22 | I told Dana I could no longer bear the atmosphere of the city , the right-wing bullies , the Falangists , the deadening work of teaching mostly bored and resentful students . |
| 23 | ‘ I just ca n't take it any more , ’ he said , much as Bobby Lavender could no longer endure the life of a gangster and watch a generation vanish . |
| 24 | The company needed a million dollars a day simply to function and could no longer generate the money . |
| 25 | Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke said with ‘ great regret ’ he could no longer justify the expense of a new building . |
| 26 | I was now so thin , so tubular that I could no longer wear a belt . |
| 27 | After at first showing little interest in the work , museum authorities informed the owners of ‘ Les villas a Bordighera ’ in May 1992 that it could no longer leave the country . |
| 28 | I found that I could no longer hear the boat 's engine . |
| 29 | What was certain was that he could no longer use the escape key . |
| 30 | But today , with more time at her disposal , she could no longer resist the adventure , and in a moment she was out of her own plain black Sunday dress , with its detachable white collar and cuffs , and into the sumptuous white silk which had clothed her dead mother once and for just a few short hours . |