Example sentences of "who have [adv] ceased [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 He deserts her in Italy some years later , and she finds her way back to London where she is reunited with her uncle , who has never ceased to search for her .
2 Records in England and Wales and Northern Ireland , however , still held the names and addresses of many who had long ceased to practise , some of them no longer alive , and so the records as they stood could not be described as ‘ live ’ .
3 Cholera victims who had hardly ceased to breathe were heaped precipitately into mass graves .
4 From Textermination , by Mira Enketei ’ ( 98 ) , of all the characters who have completely ceased to exist because they are no longer read .
5 Moreover , it stands in dazzling contrast to the sombre pessimism of most novels by white writers who seem to suffer what Alice Walker herself defines as a debilitating sense of ‘ cosmic guilt ’ and who have largely ceased to believe that literature can actually do anything .
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