Example sentences of "[noun] cease to be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Parliament ceased to be a representative assembly , in any plausible sense of the idea , or if it proceeded to enact legislation undermining the democratic basis of our institutions , political morality might direct judicial resistance rather than obedience . |
| 2 | In 1945 contributory negligence ceased to be a complete defence and became grounds for apportioning liability . |
| 3 | First , the old system of raising funds for maintaining the sultan 's war machine proved inadequate when the technology of war changed and the spahi cavalry ceased to be the indispensable core of the army . |
| 4 | It was so successful that it replaced all other control methods and the insect ceased to be a major pest . |
| 5 | In 487 BC the archonship ceased to be an elected position , chosen by the aristocracy , and was henceforth filled by lot , while in 461 BC the council of the Areopagus , composed of the ex-archons , was deprived of its powers . |
| 6 | In the twelfth century , when the issue of coin had in many areas ceased to be a royal prerogative , this sort of charge was known as seigniorage — a valuable perquisite of controlling a mint . |
| 7 | ‘ Public functions ceased to be the private property of the tools of the central government . |
| 8 | Yet as the century wore on , their military character ceased to be the exclusive distinguishing feature of princely households . |
| 9 | The last few years have also seen the re-emergence of political elements within Mozambique who favour these developments and as of 1990 , Frelimo ceased to be the sole political party . |
| 10 | It was not until the French Revolution that democracy ceased to be a mere literary word , and became part of the political vocabulary . |
| 11 | Attempted suicide ceased to be a criminal offence with the implementation of the Suicide Act in 1961 . |
| 12 | In other words , health ceased to be the dominant provider of residential care while social services and the non-statutory sectors moved to positions of parity . |
| 13 | But although the impact of women 's liberation remains resilient in the culture , a question remains : given the assumption that the road to liberation lay , among other things , in women 's economic independence , what happens when employment ceases to be an alternative " destiny " ? |
| 14 | Now , with rising population , greater social mobility , and wider resort to legal processes , human memory ceased to be an effective guarantee of human contract . |
| 15 | Royal favor ceased to be an essential condition for forming the Government . |
| 16 | As unemployment rose in 1992 , redundancy ceased to be a taboo subject . |
| 17 | So the man on the street ceased to be the prime target of charter-train salesmen . |
| 18 | YESTERDAY Berlin ceased to be a divided city . |
| 19 | Webster ceased to be a secure tenant of 29 , Juniper Court and became a secure tenant of 336 , Stocksfield Road . |
| 20 | After Jimmy ceased to be a first-team player he continued with the club , playing in the Reserves for a couple of seasons . |
| 21 | She contends that the tenant ceased to be a statutory tenant for the purposes of the subsection when the possession order was made in the county court or , alternatively , when the possession order took effect or , alternatively , when her client applied for the warrant of execution . |
| 22 | This impulse is figured partly in geographical terms ( as Jerome Klinkowitz has noted , ‘ Out moves from the clutter and hassle of the East to the pure space of an empty California beach ’ ( Klinkowitz 1980 : 137 ) ) and partly by shifting the names of the characters and the nature of their situations , so that travelling ceases to be a realistic indication of movement and becomes instead a metaphor for textual purpose . |