Example sentences of "[adv] cease to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is an astonishing view of the world ; a perversely reversed megalomania ; an assertion that all forms of political and military life were brought into existence by the grand design of the Soviet Union so that if those designs suddenly cease to be hostile , then all that is solid in the West will melt . |
| 2 | They also cease to be stolen when taken into police possession : A-G 's Ref . |
| 3 | I never cease to be amazed at the damage human beings do to one another . |
| 4 | ‘ When I think how bleak the house was when I lived there alone , I never cease to be thankful for her presence . |
| 5 | As I 've grown older , I never cease to be amazed at the theories of the amateur detectives who always turn up at any tragic occurrence and immediately are able to give all the answers . |
| 6 | We hope you will never suffer from them ; but , never cease to be upon your guard . |
| 7 | I never cease to be amazed , nor draw encouragement , from the floods of letters we receive ( a few of them even complimentary ! ) and the level of response that competitions and requests for info/opinions/lies/rubbish precipitate . |
| 8 | I NEVER cease to be amazed at poor driving standards and lack of road manners shown by many drivers today . |
| 9 | ‘ I never cease to be struck by the extraordinarily high performances individuals can turn in when faced with a challenge properly identified and given the means to deliver . |
| 10 | I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses . |
| 11 | But calling something a science does not guarantee that its practitioners forthwith cease to be attracted to the same specious accounts of what it is to communicate to which the rest of us are attracted when we try to say what communicating is . |