Example sentences of "[vb mod] cease to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another issue is whether brother — sister incest should remain criminal where both parties are aged 18 or over : when sentencing , the courts treat this as a much less serious form of the offence than father — daughter incest , and a majority of the CLRC accepted that brother — sister incest should cease to be an offence when both parties are aged 21 or over . |
| 2 | These bacteria are , of course , just the kind of parasites that , I argued , should cease to be parasitic and become mutualistic , precisely because they are transmitted in the eggs of the host , together with the host 's ‘ own ’ genes . |
| 3 | On the whole , however , I believe that , though school assembly should cease to be compulsory as an act of worship ( largely because it has long ceased to be that anyway ) , there should be a place in the timetable for the compulsory teaching of Christianity , as long as Church and State are linked . |
| 4 | You 'll need to know when snow should cease to be a problem and when it 's likely to reappear . |
| 5 | Committees should cease to be executive or administrative bodies and should concentrate on policy determination . |
| 6 | To assert those alternatives and to insist upon them we mean that a designer should cease to be the industrial Eichmann of a large corporation . |
| 7 | I think it is absolutely plain that there is no possibility , that any local authority wherever Paul were living would find it possible to that he should cease to be a statement in child , it is quite clear , I think , that he is bound to remain a child with a statement of special educational needs , in those circumstances any local authority would have the statutory duty to provide for his education , either at or somewhere else and in practice it seems to me there is no reasonable possibility of his being moved from after he has spent , will it be probably more than four years there perhaps five years there , that I think is not a possibility which has to be catered for . |
| 8 | Tony Dorigo must cease to be a non-playing member of the squad , Paul Gascoigne to be an unsolved riddle . |
| 9 | Thus , ‘ good primary practice ’ must cease to be presented as an uncontentious absolute . |
| 10 | A " merger qualifying for investigation " occurs where : ( 1 ) Two or more enterprises must cease to be distinct . |
| 11 | If the situation is not resolved within months , the rescue plan might cease to be viable . |
| 12 | Whereas young men as a matter of course would study the classics , women would be instructed in painting , music , dancing , modern languages , or other accomplishments , but rarely would they be expected to achieve real competence Indeed , a learned woman was likely to experience difficulty finding a husband , and education might cease to be any advantage . |
| 13 | It is a conception that might not be true of it , or all of it , and which might cease to be true of it or of all of it . |
| 14 | If those who profit from the sale of descriptions of their investigations and speculations about matters of public interest are not restrained by fear of appropriate penal or financial consequences from publishing defamatory statements which are false , it is likely that some of them would publish so much in the nature of defamatory allegations against public organisations , and the men and women who run those organisations , that the public , if there was no effective process for determining whether the charges were substantially true or not , might cease to be greatly concerned about the charges save for such amusement as the stories might provide . |
| 15 | Care is needed to ensure that at the time the group dividend is paid : ( a ) no " arrangements " or " option arrangements " exist whereby the parent company could cease to be beneficially entitled to more than 50% of both profits for distribution and assets on a winding up available to " equity holders " of Target ( see Sch 18 Taxes Act ) ; and ( b ) Target is beneficially owned by its parent when the dividend is declared and paid . |
| 16 | Well , I can understand the Labour Group wishing to bypass National Government if that Government were headed by Mister Kinnock , but without that particular incentive I do n't think that international negotiations should be taken by any organisation outside National Government , otherwise we 'd cease to be a nation . |
| 17 | Sanctions would cease to be applied from 15 November , while the senior patrician figure of Christopher Soames ( Winston Churchill 's son-inlaw , no less ) was sent to Zimbabwe to act as temporary governor to supervise new elections and restore the country 's trade . |
| 18 | One other consequence of a fresh gradation of sexual offences might be that they would cease to be gender-specific : there are some strange inconsistencies in the law at present , and it is not at all difficult to draft offences which might be committed by males or females against males or females . |
| 19 | In this way popular schools could be allowed to ‘ expand ’ by increasing their pupil numbers , whilst unpopular schools would be allowed to contract — and in some cases would cease to be viable . |
| 20 | Should this be achieved , the frequently cited fear of many parents of not being able to look after their children when they are old would cease to be a matter of concern . |
| 21 | If this notion of integration were developed within our total society , the mentally handicapped would cease to be regarded as a race apart . |
| 22 | They would cease to be ‘ occupied ’ and therefore cease to enjoy the legal protection of the 1949 ( IVth ) Geneva Convention and the withdrawal requirement in Resolution 242 . |
| 23 | It would cease to be recognizable as the river which the local people enjoyed , but it would become a very efficient drain , so that their sitting-rooms would no longer be ruined periodically , and farmers with land adjacent to the river would be able to grow more and better crops to feed the very people who were complaining . |
| 24 | ( Please note that benefits are halved for policyholders aged 60 or over and the benefit for injury preventing you from working again would cease to be applicable . |
| 25 | He saw a certain level of crime as functional from the point of view of social order , but beyond that level it would cease to be functional and become dangerous or pathological . |
| 26 | Perhaps it was after all impossibly naive and idealistic to expect that frontiers would cease to be watched , but just what price are we paying for the security effected by border controls ? |
| 27 | only in the sense that driving while drunk is wrong , and would cease to be so if medical obstacles were removed ? |
| 28 | Their view that the main traditional sources of grievance in industry — salaries , and problems deriving from the nature of the work task and of work organisation — would cease to be of importance as a focus of grievance in continuous-process industries turned out to be unsupported . |
| 29 | If it were to become an actual consistent condition , the very purpose of life itself ( which is growth towards perfection through the struggle between opposites or growth towards total ‘ order ’ ) would be cancelled out and the evolutionary process would cease to be of significance . |
| 30 | So would the role of the president , who would cease to be the Institute 's effective leader . |