Sentence examples for it had ceased to function from inspiring English sources

1259 82) erected a school "on the grounds of the old orphanotropheion", likely indicating that it had ceased to function for some time by then.

There was one note buried in the release that many people missed: "The emergency water circulation system was cooling the steam within the core; it has ceased to function".

The house gets all dark and quiet — it's as if time had ceased to function.

Meanwhile, it was discovered that some of the internal light sources had ceased to function, which might have caused underestimation of the true yield.

The council, he said, had "ceased to function" and its guidelines had "ceased to apply".

It was wound up in 2011 after the IRA decommissioned most of its illegal arsenal amid promises that the organisation had ceased to function as a military force.

Even when the wall had ceased to function, Bammel, a professional diplomat, had had trouble believing it until he had seen, with his own eyes, East Germans freely crossing the border.

The investigators believed their simulations might show that he could have made it back to LaGuardia; they also believed, for a while, that only one of the plane's engines had ceased to function.

He underwent surgery to remove his gallbladder, which had ceased to function.

Wooden beams were deteriorating, gutters had ceased to function and walls were cracking.

I would have just done what I always did: tug at her hand, like at the string of a talking doll that had ceased to function.