Example sentences of "cease to be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 No farm worker welcomes the prospect of having to uproot his family should he , because he is ill , injured at work , made redundant , has achieved retirement or had a row with his boss , cease to be employed on the farm .
2 Timber buildings may simply rot and collapse , and other features such as pits and ditches will silt up very rapidly once they cease to be maintained .
3 ‘ 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 .
4 They also cease to be stolen when taken into police possession : A-G 's Ref .
5 These principles should n't be forgotten or cease to be put into effect simply because your child is becoming a young adult .
6 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 .
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