Example sentences of "it ceases [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dance is firstly a physical activity and if it is obscured by complicated costumes , props , machinery , lighting and stage effects , it ceases to be relevant to anything but the cleverness of the producer . |
| 2 | Jacques : When it ceases to be a voluntary body it is already dead ! |
| 3 | A school that loses sight of its values runs the risk that it ceases to be a school at all , and becomes instead just a learning centre , the sort of educational service station that the sub-text of the 1988 Act seems to envisage . |
| 4 | For when a religion is put into a position where its , albeit necessary , business activities appear in the eyes of its followers , to be outweighing in importance its original purpose , it ceases to be of the slightest use in so far as it is able to fulfil one of its most important reasons for existence , that is , to provide a satisfactory code of behaviour to be observed in that area of human conduct which can be considered as being subject to moral law . |
| 5 | If it is directed against an opponent it ceases to be self-suffering and becomes instead a form of coercion , which is an aspect of violence , and as such unacceptable . |
| 6 | Thus , if a subsidiary company is sold off by the group with surrendered ACT , it ceases to be available for offset . |
| 7 | ‘ But when technique enters into every area of life , including the human , it ceases to be external to man and becomes his very substance . |
| 8 | When the text has a reader it ceases to be a mere object and takes on anthropomorphic form ; it has a voice or voices ( the ‘ codes ’ ) , it creates its own history ( the history of the already-read content ) , it ‘ plays ’ , ‘ creates ’ , ‘ lies ’ , etc . |
| 9 | It ceases to be a recreation facility . |
| 10 | Women are disrupted in their worship by the masculinity of the religion to the point that it ceases to be for them a vehicle through which they can love God . |
| 11 | After that it ceases to be news ! |
| 12 | Racism is ‘ naturalized ’ to the point where it ceases to be a cultural norm ( and as such contestable ) and becomes instead a quasi-biological trait , a symptom of inherent individual pathology . |
| 13 | For it is part of magic 's function to conceal its real dynamic under a smoke-screen of fustian and fantasy , precisely because magic is no longer magic if it ceases to be the monopoly of the class or section who practise it . |
| 14 | Thus housing in a poor state of repair can not be brought back into use and marginal property is in danger of deteriorating to the point where it ceases to be habitable . |
| 15 | Moreover , not only is the dormant company then entitled to the exemption from auditing but , if it would have been entitled to the exemptions of a small company under section 246 but for the fact that it is a member of an ineligible group , it will also be entitled to those exemptions ; until it ceases to be dormant or no longer qualifies to make itself exempt under section 250 . |
| 16 | Institutional care is one part of a complex range of provision ; while it is right to reduce reliance upon it because of its toxic effects ( which are determined by the quality of care provided and not size alone : Huxley , 1991b ) it must be wrong to remove it altogether or reduce its scale or critical mass so that it ceases to be able to perform those functions which other services can not . |
| 17 | As soon as it stands on its own it ceases to be a clause and becomes a simple sentence . |
| 18 | Since political power is part of the class character of the bureaucracy , it follows that it ceases to be a class if its loses its dominance over the working class . |
| 19 | William Hazlitt ( 1778–1830 ) stated , ‘ When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy , it ceases to be a subject of interest . ’ |
| 20 | Two years later Mr X releases all rights in connection with the property so that it ceases to be property subject to reservation and the relevant period begins to run . |
| 21 | It ceases to be true of the great tit as a matter of fact , because if you follow populations of the great tits westward across Europe , the Middle East and Northern India into Southern China , they gradually change and become smaller and darker . |