Example sentences of "it ceases [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Thus , if a subsidiary company is sold off by the group with surrendered ACT , it ceases to be available for offset . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ But when technique enters into every area of life , including the human , it ceases to be external to man and becomes his very substance . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |