Example sentences of "[noun] ceases to be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The designation Unbeliever ceases to be mandatory for the Jews .
2 The reason is that erm , if the child ceases to be afraid , for example , of the parents , or of outside , of outside discipline or control , it instead becomes anxious and terrified of its own instinctual drives which it ca n't control .
3 Above this frequency , the attenuation ceases to be negligible and the phase shift ceases to be sufficiently proportional to frequency .
4 It is not enough , in the course of answering this question , to mention that the right will be lost if restitutio in integrum ceases to be possible .
5 Faith ceases to be laudable when it is blind faith .
6 These will aim to eliminate non-strategic nuclear weapons from Europe , and to reduce the strategic weapons possessed by the US , the former Soviet Union , Britain , France and China — a vital step towards the day when individual nations ' possession of nuclear deterrents ceases to be necessary .
7 The seller ceases to be unpaid , i.e. if the whole of the price is paid or tendered to him .
8 If the factual situation falls outside the scope of the refusal or if the assumption upon which it is based is falsified , the refusal ceases to be effective .
9 the extension of the care premium for eight weeks after the claimant ceases to be entitled to Invalid Care Allowance .
10 As soon as a contract becomes legally binding , performance ceases to be optional , thereby curtailing individual autonomy .
11 Tell him what it means , and when such restitutio ceases to be possible .
12 Where there is a change in the employee responsible for the day-to-day running of the premises , the licence must be transferred into the new employee 's name within eight weeks of the change , or the licence ceases to be valid .
13 ( 3 ) Unless a licence is transferred to another employee or agent within eight weeks from the time when the employee or agent named in a licence ceases to be responsible for the day to day running of the premises to which the licence relates , the licence shall cease to have effect .
14 The employer ceases to be entitled to take any part in the proceedings .
15 On June 20 , the old 10p ceases to be legal tender and the charity is hoping to collect as many of them as possible before that date .
16 Under section 250 it is treated as dormant ‘ during a period in which … there is no transaction which is required by section 221 to be entered in the company 's accounting records ; and a company ceases to be dormant on the occurrence of such a transaction . ’
17 At the moment , in contrast , a domicile of choice is lost once an individual ceases to be present in the host country and the domicile of origin revives .
18 It 's being erm boxing as a sport is being erm eradicated in schools , and it may be that in , in the future , maybe the none too distant future that boxing ceases to be acceptable .
19 If , however , a society is so divided that it contains within itself one or more permanent minorities , who know that on the issues that matter most to them they can never hope to get their way , precisely because of the operation of the majority principle , then that principle ceases to be adequate .
20 I expect that for an ornithologist death ceases to be terrible once sight and hearing begin to go .
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