Example sentences of "have ceased to [be] an " in BNC.

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1 World war has ceased to be an inevitability .
2 But this does not mean that nuclear war has ceased to be an instrument of politics , as is claimed by the overwhelming majority of representatives of pacifist , anti-war movements in the bourgeois world .
3 Given that the market has ceased to be an effective mode of regulating the exercise of the economic power of the company it is hardly surprising that arguments employed to regulate the exercise of public power should have been drawn upon to regulate the private economic power of corporate managers .
4 When an institution has ceased to be an authorised institution , liability of the institution to him for compensation purposes depends upon his state of mind ‘ at the time the deposit was made . ’
5 ‘ The barriers had ceased to be an effective protection for Names as those losing their shirts on marine syndicates are only too painfully aware , ’ he said .
6 ‘ The barriers had ceased to be an effective protection for Names as those losing their shirts on marine syndicates are only too painfully aware , ’ he said .
7 By the 19th century the meat had ceased to be an ingredient and , in Mrs Beeton 's day , the mixture was cooked in elaborate , castle-shaped moulds .
8 Shall we assume that the Home Secretary , too , will grant a reprieve to William Joyce ( ‘ Lord Haw Haw ’ ) because by January 3 , 1946 , the date of his execution , Germany had ceased to be an enemy country ?
9 By the end of the 1920's Miss Lintorn-Orman 's brand of Fascism had not caught on and the Bolshevik revolution in England , which it had been formed to combat , had ceased to be an event worth waiting for .
10 ‘ 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 . ’
11 The plaintiffs relied on an express term set out in the letters of appointments written to the defendants as follows : You will not disclose any of the company 's affairs or any of its subsidiary or associated companies business or trade secrets to a third party either during or after you have ceased to be an employee of the company without the express written consent of the company .
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