Example sentences of "[pron] had ceased to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Maundy Thursday , I had ceased to be a member of the top class Infants and now entered the Boys School , which at that time catered for seven to fourteen year olds — the latter being school leaving age . |
| 2 | I had ceased to be good at the convent , and now I also ceased to be either healthy or clever . |
| 3 | Already I had ceased to be sure which side I was on . |
| 4 | Could he still love her when she had ceased to be a symbol and walked in the lesser light of her own individuality ? |
| 5 | But she had ceased to be surprised , or even confused , by the constantly changing facets of Alexander Vass . |
| 6 | Perhaps only those for whom life itself had ceased to be worth living . |
| 7 | Whether because they had ceased to be pleased about her birthday or simply because they were tired , she did not know . |
| 8 | Even after they had ceased to be largely print-based , most conglomerates up until the 1970s remained primarily media organizations . |
| 9 | They had ceased to be shocked by nudity , and accepted that it now happened mostly on remote beaches where it need n't offend any villagers . |
| 10 | They had ceased to be such holders , because , in effect , in their hands the document had ceased to be a negotiable instrument quite as much as if there had been on the acceptance of the draft by the plaintiffs an erasure of the writing of the signature to the note . |
| 11 | And here was Conservatism , with a do-nothing prime minister in Mr Baldwin , with an out-of-date commitment to maintaining the British Empire in a world where it had ceased to be possible or right to maintain it , so that we spent millions in building a fortress at Singapore while we spent nothing more on housing or education . |
| 12 | He had taken the name of Varna from the name of the port from which he had sailed but he had lived his life in terror of deportation , a fear that had haunted him long after it had ceased to be a real threat , so that he had never been able to enjoy his son 's success , seeing it only as something which drew unwelcome attention to the Varna family . |
| 13 | It had ceased to be . |
| 14 | It was the First World War that finally killed off the " legion of Leagues " , but it had ceased to be a problem before 1914 . |
| 15 | Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made . |
| 16 | ‘ In determining the total liability of an institution to a depositor for the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) above , or the liability or total liability of an institution to a depositor for the purposes of subsection ( 2 ) above , no account shall be taken of any liability in respect of a deposit if … ( c ) the institution is a former authorised institution and the deposit was made after it ceased to be an authorised institution or a recognised bank or licensed institution under the Banking Act 1979 unless , at the time the deposit was made , the depositor did not know and could not reasonably be expected to have known that it had ceased to be an authorised institution , recognised bank or licensed institution . ’ |
| 17 | More than any scholar of his generation ( G. Gilbert Murray , q.v. , apart ) he kept Greek literature alive at a time when it had ceased to be a compulsory subject in many schools . |
| 18 | By the time it did satisfy the relevant purpose test ( by having acquired the business ) it had ceased to be close by virtue of the institutions ' investment . |
| 19 | Even after he had ceased to be a Neoplatonist , St Augustine remained very much under the influence of Plato 's philosophical ideas , in particular those concerning time . |
| 20 | But there was also a growing disaffection among the younger poets and critics : he had ceased to be a poet and had become an institution , and the only thing to do with an institution is to attempt to pull it down . |
| 21 | The Almighty was something of an embarrassment to the BBC of late , ever since He had ceased to be the exclusive property of the Church of England . |
| 22 | He had ceased to be a problem to us . |
| 23 | Gratitude because of the unhesitating generosity with which Doreen gave him the hospitality of her body ; responsibility because he had ceased to be a passing visitor to that body , taking what he could get , and had become a guest , leaving behind something as a token of their intimacy . |
| 24 | In fact , at the time when Macmillan 's advice was sought he had ceased to be Prime Minister and it is the more odd that the Queen on this occasion should have , in Macmillan 's words , said that ‘ she did not need and did not intend to seek any other advice but mine ’ . |
| 25 | The employment contract between the parties dealt with this eventuality by the continuance of such payments to the employee after he had ceased to be employed " provided that the agent 's entitlement to such commission will immediately cease if the agent enters into a contract of service or for services directly or indirectly with any limited company , mutual society , partnership or brokerage operation involved in the selling of insurance or would be in breach of any part of clause 9A hereof were this contract still subsisting " . |