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

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1 Consequently , norm development occurs over very long periods , and often very old behaviour patterns are preserved long after they have ceased to be relevant .
2 Already I had ceased to be sure which side I was on .
3 Whether because they had ceased to be pleased about her birthday or simply because they were tired , she did not know .
4 I have never ceased to be proud of that winged machine .
5 I had ceased to be good at the convent , and now I also ceased to be either healthy or clever .
6 Within a short space of time , the laboratory had ceased to be involved in the launch vehicles , themselves ( so making ‘ Jet Propulsion ’ a highly anomalous title ) , and had become connected to the newly-formed NASA empire .
7 During the Cortes debate on the draft constitution in the summer of 1931 , Azaña declared that Spain had ‘ ceased to be Catholic ’ .
8 In fact , at the time when Macmillan 's advice was sought he had ceased to be Prime Minister and it is the more odd that the Queen on this occasion should have , in Macmillan 's words , said that ‘ she did not need and did not intend to seek any other advice but mine ’ .
9 The same is true in cases where coins have ceased to be legal tender because of a change of political regime .
10 Number five , which coin ceased to be legal tender in August the first , nineteen sixty nine ?
11 Ceased to be legal
12 Which coin ceased to be legal tender in August the first , nineteen sixty nine ?
13 Right , which coin ceased to be legal tender
14 The medical profession have long since ceased to be shocked or surprised at the wide variety of objects which continue to be extracted from the vagina .
15 They had ceased to be shocked by nudity , and accepted that it now happened mostly on remote beaches where it need n't offend any villagers .
16 And here was Conservatism , with a do-nothing prime minister in Mr Baldwin , with an out-of-date commitment to maintaining the British Empire in a world where it had ceased to be possible or right to maintain it , so that we spent millions in building a fortress at Singapore while we spent nothing more on housing or education .
17 By the time it did satisfy the relevant purpose test ( by having acquired the business ) it had ceased to be close by virtue of the institutions ' investment .
18 So far , the free world has liked him both for having been , and for having ceased to be , a communist of a sort , for the freedoms he seeks in matters of literary form , for the modern inventiveness and manipulation of the literary games he plays , games that none the less commemorate , as he acknowledges , Cervantes , Sterne and Diderot , and for the sexual games which he plays in an age when , as he once put it , sexuality has ceased to be taboo .
19 Once the alternative assessments ceased to be enforceable , the taxpayer became liable to the tax assessed , and this was not capable of any serious challenge .
20 There must have been a time when each of these practices ceased to be tolerable and reasonable behaviour .
21 When parents ceased to be available , primitive man could well have felt the loss , and the need to transfer the dependence elsewhere and this led eventually to some form of imagined substitute , or ‘ god ’ as the surrogate .
22 During the same five year period , and following the disastrous Rent Act of 1974 over 400,000 private dwellings ceased to be available for rent .
23 The content of the NBC programmes has ceased to be lifeless with the newly acquired freedom to debate facts and events without fear of reprisals .
24 The content of the NBC programmes has ceased to be lifeless with the newly acquired freedom to debate facts and events without fear of reprisals .
25 Other options are : ( 1 ) the acquisition of existing practices , often enough from sole practitioners or from firms which ( perhaps because of the death or defection of a senior partner ) have ceased to be viable ; and ( 2 ) true amalgamation between firms where the member firms are subsumed into an entirely new firm ( even if past identities find some reflection in the chosen firm-name ) .
26 On the other hand it has to be understood that , by the time that Washoe , Koko , and the rest of the humanized-ape fraternity have been endowed with elements of human culture in this drastic fashion , they have long since ceased to be ordinary apes .
27 The Church had ceased to be monolithic ; the social structure of Europe had become more fluid .
28 But intimate , self-centred poetry on the one hand and heaven-storming energy on the other conquered music north of the Alps and Italian music gradually ceased to be pan-European .
29 However , companies which have ceased to be private client favourites include Tarmac , British Petroleum , Lonrho , Trafalgar House and Fisons .
30 The Union of the Crowns did not mean that England and Scotland had ceased to be separate countries .
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