Example sentences of "stopped [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If we stopped seeing each other that would solve the problem , would n't it ? ’ |
| 2 | 1 Why did all the children laugh at Julie on the first day she went to her new school ? 2 How do you think Julie felt that day ? 3 Did you feel sorry for her then ? 4 Did you feel sorry for her later in the story ? 5 When Julie was left tied to the lamp post was it fair , unfair , cruel … or what ? 6 Whose fault was it that Julie and Bee stopped seeing each other ? 7 Why did Julie get hurts and what effect did it have on Bee ? 8 What were your feelings at the end ? |
| 3 | I stopped seeing those flats years ago . |
| 4 | Even if we stopped using all CFCs today , depletion of the ozone layer — the earth 's barrier against cancer-causing ultra violet radiation — would carry on at the same rate for the next 50 years . |
| 5 | Indian survivors abandoned traditional dress to avoid summary execution and stopped using indigenous languages in public . |
| 6 | ‘ After I stopped eating factory-farmed meat I now can not stand the feeling of eating flesh . |
| 7 | People stopped building new ghettoes in which to practise the old persecutions ? |
| 8 | It insists that paper can only be recycled four times before it disintegrates , and claims that if Scandinavia stopped producing primary fibre Europe would run out of paper in six months . |
| 9 | Japanese refiners stopped producing leaded petrol in December 1987 . |
| 10 | One of the American companies , US Leasing , stopped writing new business in the summer and 3i , the venture capital group , joint owned by the four big banks , is reducing the scale of its leasing operations . |
| 11 | Chicherin stopped writing private memoranda and started a debate on the peasant commune . |
| 12 | When we stopped serving white meat and seafood to become totally vegetarian there is no doubt we lost a lot of customers but you have to stick to your guns . |
| 13 | I stopped smoking two years ago and I stopped doing all the silly drugs and drink nearly six years ago , so you naturally gravitate towards quite a healthy diet . |
| 14 | The German economy stopped growing last summer and is now in deep recession , with industrial output in the year to March down more than 10% . |
| 15 | In 1964 , the annual Labour Gazette stopped printing annual retirement figures . |
| 16 | When Swayne stopped speaking small sounds reached them from the street : a woman 's heels tapping on the paving stones , a snatch of conversation from the people opposite … |
| 17 | It is time we invested seriously in education and training and stopped letting this misery grow worse and worse . ’ |
| 18 | All patients stopped taking any acid inhibitory agents at least two weeks before entering the study and none had received bismuth preparations in the past . |
| 19 | It stopped making low-density polyethylene , a basic petro-chemical characterised by massive international over-capacity , a decade ago . |
| 20 | ‘ I think it 's high time you stopped making snap judgements , Mr Bryce , especially as the conclusions you leap to are invariably the wrong ones . ’ |
| 21 | It was held that , although refusal to grant licences did not amount to an abuse as such , it could so do if refusal was arbitrary or if prices were fixed at unfair levels or if the right owner stopped making spare parts . |
| 22 | Oh , to protect market share , which means that you think if you stopped advertising less people would buy it , therefore your ads are making people buy it — thank you and good night . |
| 23 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 24 | Iraq 's half-dozen Kurdish parties stopped fighting each other in 1987 to form the Kurdistan Democratic Front , committed to democracy for Iraq and autonomy for Kurdistan . |
| 25 | Verbal abuse was traditionally a crime among the Sinhalese , but the courts stopped trying this offence in the 1820s in the Low Country and a decade later in Kandyan districts . |
| 26 | It might , of course , be the case that people stopped throwing good-luck coins into the water for some reason , but , in fact , the coin evidence coincides with archaeological evidence for a cessation of the maintenance of the buildings in the precinct in about AD350 , and we can conclude that the religious use of the site tailed off from about that date . |
| 27 | Kenny Everett said : ‘ I stopped watching 10 years ago because it was hideously irritating . |