Example sentences of "[noun] ceased to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although my income was unchanged , money ceased to be a problem , a worry , a source of guilt and anxiety , and became a reliable friend . |
| 2 | The process meant that adolescence ceased to be what an American scholar has called an ‘ idea ’ and became , in his words , a ‘ social fact ’ . |
| 3 | Where the holder of a canteen licence ceases to manage the canteen , the person who is in charge for the time being can , for a period of 14 days from the date " when the holder ceased to be manager , sell liquor as if the licence had been transferred to him . |
| 4 | If Parliament ceased to be a representative assembly , in any plausible sense of the idea , or if it proceeded to enact legislation undermining the democratic basis of our institutions , political morality might direct judicial resistance rather than obedience . |
| 5 | Pliny the Elder , writing in the later first century AD , says that about the time of Vulso 's triumph statues of wood and terracotta ceased to be used at Rome and were replaced by luxuria from Asia Minor . |
| 6 | Technical Division confirmed that their view was that such income ceased to be relevant income . |
| 7 | In 1945 contributory negligence ceased to be a complete defence and became grounds for apportioning liability . |
| 8 | First , the old system of raising funds for maintaining the sultan 's war machine proved inadequate when the technology of war changed and the spahi cavalry ceased to be the indispensable core of the army . |
| 9 | It was so successful that it replaced all other control methods and the insect ceased to be a major pest . |
| 10 | The limit in respect of advice in relation to undefended divorce proceedings had been raised to £45 in April 1977 when legal aid ceased to be available for such proceedings and that figure was subsequently raised to £55 in 1979 , £75 in 1981 and £90 in 1985 . |
| 11 | Paul , a native of Samosata on the Euphrates , became bishop of Antioch-on-the-Orontes , third city of the empire , at a time when Syria ceased to be under Roman control but was briefly part of the kingdom of Palmyra under Queen Zenobia ( 266–71 ) . |
| 12 | In 487 BC the archonship ceased to be an elected position , chosen by the aristocracy , and was henceforth filled by lot , while in 461 BC the council of the Areopagus , composed of the ex-archons , was deprived of its powers . |
| 13 | Example 4:7 Side by side rent sharing SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule : ( a ) " rental income " means the aggregate of : ( i ) any yearly or other periodical sums payable under an occupational lease including sums payable by virtue of any enactment ; ( ii ) any sums payable by way of interest under an occupational lease ; ( iii ) any sums payable by way of damages or compensation for any breach of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease ; ( iv ) any sum payable by a guarantor of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease pursuant to his guarantee ; ( v ) any premium paid or other capital payment made by a tenant under an occupational lease in connection with the grant assignment variation or surrender of an occupational lease ; ( vi ) any sum payable under a policy of insurance in respect of loss of rent or other income ( b ) " permitted deductions " means the aggregate of : ( i ) expenses reasonably incurred by the tenant in order to comply with its obligations as landlord under an occupational lease ; ( ii ) legal costs incurred by the tenant in enforcing obligations under occupational leases except to the extent that the tenant recovers those costs from a party to an occupational lease ; ( iii ) the amount of any compensation or damages which the tenant is liable by statute or ordered to pay to any party to an occupational lease whether for non-renewal of a tenancy breach of covenant breach of obligation compensation for improvements or otherwise ; ( iv ) the cost of management and rent collection not exceeding … per cent of rental income ( c ) " notional rental income " means the rack rental value of any lettable unit which is either unlet or vacant or occupied by the tenant or by a group company the value to be determined as at the date on which the unit in question ceased to be let or occupied or as the case may be become occupied by the tenant or a group company and redetermined every year ( d ) " lettable unit " means a part of the property which is designed constructed or adapted for letting to an occupying retail trader ( e ) " occupational lease " means a lease under which physical possession of a lettable unit was granted by the tenant ( f ) " rack rental value " of any lettable unit at any time means the rent at which that unit might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market for a term of not less than ten years with an upwards only rent review on every fifth anniversary of the beginning of the term and on such other terms as would be expected to be negotiated in the open market ( including such financial inducements and concessions as are usual in the market at that time ) ( g ) " group company " means a company which would be treated as a member of the same group of companies as the tenant for the purposes of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 ( h ) " divisible income " means the difference between : ( i ) rental income plus notional rental income ; and ( ii ) permitted deductions but divisible income shall never be less than nil ( i ) " the first slice " means such part of divisible income as does not exceed £ ( j ) " the second slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ but does not exceed £ ( k ) " the top slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ ( 2 ) The rent payable by the tenant is the aggregate of : ( a ) … per cent of the first slice ; ( b ) … per cent of the second slice ; and ( c ) … per cent of the top slice to be paid by equal quarterly payments on the usual quarter days |
| 14 | Here the pope had the advantage over the emperor for , with the removal of the empire to the West , Roman law ceased to be declared and the Roman law dried up as a living law . |
| 15 | Once rape ceased to be a capital offence , however , the judges became willing to broaden its scope . |
| 16 | Doubts arose over the length of time which might elapse before the child ceased to be regarded as ‘ newly born ’ , and the Infanticide Act 1938 extended the definition to the killing of a child within twelve months of its birth by a mother whose mind is disturbed either by reason of her not having fully recovered from the effect of giving birth to the child or by reason of the effect of lactation consequent upon the birth of the child . |
| 17 | If the husband elects that his " new " home is to be treated as his main residence , then the disposal to the wife of the former matrimonial home ( or his interest in it ) will give rise to a charge to capital gains tax ; this will be on the gain accruing in respect of the period from when the matrimonial home ceased to be his main residence until the date of the court order or date of agreement between the parties . |
| 18 | It also , however , involved conversions at grass-roots level , for in the course of the sixteenth century the people of England ceased to be overwhelmingly Catholic and became predominantly Protestant . |
| 19 | At the same time , Schuman ceased to be central to French foreign policy . |
| 20 | As land gradually ceased to be the major source of middle class wealth , and as salaries became more important , so marriage ceased to be an essentially dynastic settlement between two kin groups and it became possible to grant women more freedom , both emotional ( to marry whom they wished ) and legal , within marriage . |
| 21 | S 69 , FA 1985 , which replaced ss 124 , 125 , CGTA 1979 , and is itself now part of the Taxation of Capital Gains Act 1992 , makes it clear that , in connection with a retirement relief claim , a disposal of business assets is a disposal of the whole or part of a business , or a disposal of one or more assets which , at the time at which a business ceased to be carried on , were in use for the purposes of that business . |
| 22 | Unlike the state monopoly telecommunications business which has tended to stay that way , the semiconductor chip business started out with United States commercial dominance ; it has continued on this pattern , with the one major change that in the 1980S the multinational companies dominating the world chip business ceased to be predominantly American and became a combination of Japanese and United States companies . |
| 23 | sterling ceased to be at the centre of the world 's financial system . |
| 24 | For the vast majority of the workforce the enhanced terms known as SERT ceased to be available last March . |
| 25 | When his patron ceased to be Parliament 's lord admiral , with the passage of the self-denying ordinance in 1645 , Jessop stayed on as secretary to the Admiralty commissioners , holding this post until the demise of the Rump Parliament in 1653 . |
| 26 | Yet as the century wore on , their military character ceased to be the exclusive distinguishing feature of princely households . |
| 27 | The promised War Risk Compensation Scheme did not appear until 19 February 1915 and their Lordships seemed to have forgotten altogether that under the Merchant Shipping Act the moment a ship became a total wreck , from whatever cause , the wages of its crew ceased to be paid , leaving both sailors and their dependents in " an unenviable position " . |
| 28 | Combined Concerns had said that after the shed ceased to be used by the railway , it had several business uses , but none proved viable . |
| 29 | Rothbury ceased to be clerk of the council when he was appointed a justice of the court of King 's Bench in 1295 , but he remained clerk of Parliament till at least 1307 and perhaps as late as 1314 . |
| 30 | Military education ceased to be a sort of " royal secret " and became the preserve of the War Ministry . |