Example sentences of "ceases [prep] [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As land is passed on over the generations , it gradually ceases to be a viable unit . |
| 3 | Jacques : When it ceases to be a voluntary body it is already dead ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , before racing ceases to be a single-parent sport , the Jockey Club deserves full credit for not only having forged ahead with the Sunday fixtures but also firing the well-aimed salvos that finally got through to the Government the iniquities of the level of VAT being charged on the breeding , rearing and racing of bloodstock in this country compared with France and Ireland . |
| 7 | This scheme can also be used to classify the literature to which these labels apply ; if so , this ceases to be a strict subject classification and becomes to some extent a classification by the form in which the literature is written ; for example , its language and literary form . |
| 8 | 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 " ? |
| 9 | ‘ A policy of trust , with America to back it , ceases to be an idealistic folly . ’ |