Example sentences of "ceased to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Government defeats ceased to be unusual . |
| 32 | Deputies from Estonia 's Russian minority boycotted the vote on the new law , describing it as discriminatory and claiming that it violated the constitution of Soviet Estonia , although Estonian nationalist deputies countered that that document had ceased to be valid since the March 30 declaration of a transition to independence [ see pp. 37322 ; 37461-62 ] . |
| 33 | In 1986 TVEI ceased to be experimental , and in the White Paper Working Together. : Education and Training the Government put forward the plan for a national scheme with the aim that ‘ all young people in schools should have the opportunity of following a more relevant and practical curriculum leading to the achievement of recognized standards of competence and qualifications ’ . |
| 34 | Roland had ceased to be surprised that an English Department was sponsoring the study of French books . |
| 35 | Having been brainwashed to think that all other troupes were inferior , they never ceased to be surprised when they managed to watch them dance . |
| 36 | Dalgliesh , who had heard him at a police concert , never ceased to be surprised that so narrow a chest and so slight a frame could produce such a powerful organ-toned bass . |
| 37 | But she had ceased to be surprised , or even confused , by the constantly changing facets of Alexander Vass . |
| 38 | Second , they argue that because human intervention is involved in the production of transgenic plants or animals , they have somehow ceased to be biological and thus patentable . |
| 39 | This might be so after today 's rain , for instance , when the facts about the rain have ceased to be evidence-transcendent to all . |
| 40 | But in spite of the immense authority which he now possessed , his poetry had ceased to be fashionable or " chic " in the way that The Waste Land or even Ash-Wednesday had originally been : the new , or at least young , poets were no longer particularly interested in what he had to show them . |
| 41 | The fact that the cold war lasted so much longer than the economic idyll meant that Americans never adjusted to the fact that , economically , their country had long ceased to be able to deliver the annual increase in prosperity they had come to consider a birthright . |
| 42 | Depositors ceased to be able to withdraw their money . |
| 43 | It is noteworthy that the line of the Great North Road runs near where many of these rivers ceased to be navigable , and many towns on the road may have grown up as places where goods were transferred from water freight to carts or pack animals ( 82 , pp.194–200 ) . |
| 44 | Grattan 's Parliament in Ireland , furthermore , can never have been sovereign or , if it was , then the Parliament of Great Britain itself ceased to be sovereign when it established it . |
| 45 | The fact that King Arthur had been Romano-British and engaged in a struggle against Saxon invaders made the whole thing even more nonsensical , but Schellenberg had long since ceased to be amused by the excesses of the Third Reich . |
| 46 | Between the wars , in a word , English literature briefly ceased to be British , and there were those who imagined the change might easily be irreversible . |
| 47 | We ride a long way and in late afternoon ( sun time rather than clock time , which has long ceased to be important to us ) we stop for coffee so that Odd-Knut can work out a route . |
| 48 | It had been faced and dealt with in the early centuries of the church and later along the lines that the inspiration of the Bible did not mean that God simply dictated the words , or that the authors ceased to be human and fallible . |
| 49 | Insanitary conditions , and the concentration of people and rats in a limited area , made them vulnerable to attacks of plague , and it is noteworthy that even when the disease had ceased to be common in the country , it persisted in urban areas . |
| 50 | However , many of the 1.3 million recipients who would have ceased to be eligible for supplementary benefit were receiving what is called certificated housing benefit . |
| 51 | Walking , for example , is an activity which as we go about in everyday life we have ceased to be aware of ; but when we dance the automatically performed gestures of walking are perceived anew . |
| 52 | When lines of poetry spring spontaneously to the mind of a lawyer , I thought , they have surely ceased to be true . |
| 53 | This is all a far cry from the cosy coffee morning , which is itself shorthand for a vast network of peer support groups in which women , who have ceased to be competitive for the first time in their lives , can find reassurance during a period of mindbending uncertainty . |
| 54 | They were mixed because although all the vitality , the song , humour , and much of the idiom came from what E. P. Thompson has described as the traditionally ‘ rowdy ’ element in working-class culture these things had now ceased to be spontaneous and informal and had passed into other hands . |
| 55 | Although the assumptions behind British judicial procedure were not popularly accepted , the courts soon ceased to be alien because they were used by Sri Lankans in ways which fit indigenous norms . |