Example sentences of "ceased to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It does no such thing ; rather it defines the circumstances and conditions in which a marriage has ceased to be a source of happiness and strength to those involved and may be brought to an end … |
| 4 | Whether because they had ceased to be pleased about her birthday or simply because they were tired , she did not know . |
| 5 | The floor patterns ceased to be confined to the curved , angled or straight lines decreed by the older rules which proposed that certain geometrical figures had great significance . |
| 6 | Nicholas Barrington has ceased to be Ambassador , and is now High Commissioner . |
| 7 | Since the 1985 Mansion House speech broad money has ceased to be targeted . |
| 8 | And here was Conservatism , with a do-nothing prime minister in Mr Baldwin , with an out-of-date commitment to maintaining the British Empire in a world where it had ceased to be possible or right to maintain it , so that we spent millions in building a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 . |
| 9 | Society is increasingly helpless to deal with it because it has ceased to be society . |
| 10 | But while externally unchanged they have ceased to be our central ‘ collective representations ’ . |
| 11 | By this time the personnel function in ICI had ceased to be the domain of inspired amateurs . |
| 12 | We ride a long way and in late afternoon ( sun time rather than clock time , which has long ceased to be important to us ) we stop for coffee so that Odd-Knut can work out a route . |
| 13 | Could he still love her when she had ceased to be a symbol and walked in the lesser light of her own individuality ? |
| 14 | ‘ The barriers had ceased to be an effective protection for Names as those losing their shirts on marine syndicates are only too painfully aware , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ The barriers had ceased to be an effective protection for Names as those losing their shirts on marine syndicates are only too painfully aware , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Germany was prostrate ; France had ceased to be Britain 's inveterate enemy ; and the Soviet Union had enough on its hands rebuilding Mother Russia . |
| 17 | Whatever the form of ownership — and there is plenty of room and need for experiment — the aim is the same : to bridge the gap between ownership and control that has grown ever since companies ceased to be run by proprietors in the first half of this century . |
| 18 | The same is true in cases where coins have ceased to be legal tender because of a change of political regime . |
| 19 | As the south of Britain became hostile territory , the Scots ceased to be north Britons , and became enthusiastic Europeans . |
| 20 | To some extent Labour , despite its defeat , has ceased to be a Welsh , Scottish and North of England regional party . |
| 21 | The effect in Britain was a sizeable reduction in arable areas of production , and the agricultural industry gradually ceased to be the employer of the most workers . |
| 22 | To many observers Reagan had long ceased to be a president and become a king-like figure who communicated with his people in platitudinous homilies . |
| 23 | Under the Children Act 1989 a child 's lack of suitable education had ceased to be a specific ground for taking him/her into care . |
| 24 | The church is in Romanesque style , but in this case it is mock-Romanesque , completion being many years after the style had ceased to be used . |
| 25 | This is all a far cry from the cosy coffee morning , which is itself shorthand for a vast network of peer support groups in which women , who have ceased to be competitive for the first time in their lives , can find reassurance during a period of mindbending uncertainty . |
| 26 | Roland had ceased to be surprised that an English Department was sponsoring the study of French books . |
| 27 | One only has to note the impressive erudition manipulated by the likes of Borges , Cortázar , Carpentier or Fuentes or the intertextual references that abound in the new narrative to realize that the Spanish-American writer has long since ceased to be a provincial and is now very much a citizen of the world . |
| 28 | And so in the blazing heat of the next day Martha was supplied with a small replica of the new green , black and gold Jamaican flag and hoisted on to her stepfather 's shoulders at the gates of what had just ceased to be the colonial governor 's mansion , to see a small erect figure in the back of a Rolls-Royce drive slowly away . |
| 29 | The Vancouver stations were run down — and two were demolished — once Vancouver had ceased to be the main portal to the Orient with the ending of the passenger shipping services . |
| 30 | Even after he had ceased to be a Neoplatonist , St Augustine remained very much under the influence of Plato 's philosophical ideas , in particular those concerning time . |