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16 | And here was Conservatism , with a do-nothing prime minister in Mr Baldwin , with an out-of-date commitment to maintaining the British Empire in a world where it had ceased to be possible or right to maintain it , so that we spent millions in building a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 . |