Example sentences of "they continue [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | American war planes will launch lightning strikes against the Serbs if they continue to breach the no-fly zone over the former Yugoslav republic . |
| 2 | This approach is particularly useful when their play has become " stuck " , when they continue to enact the same situation in the same way . |
| 3 | They continue to perpetrate the discredited myth of economic invincibility rather than reflect the harsh realities of recession and reunification . |
| 4 | Government spokesmen say Chiang Mai is untypical : prostitutes in Bangkok found to be infected are often sent home to the north , where they continue to practise the only trade they know . |
| 5 | The proportion of owner-occupiers among councillors increased in line with the general growth in this form of tenure and they continued to exceed the general population in this regard . |
| 6 | When the storm broke they were literally in the front line , but they continued to stock The Satanic Verses and in many cases display it prominently . |
| 7 | When the state took over recruitment under the Military Service Acts , the party continued to be involved : many agents were transferred to the army , where they continued to do the same job , and many party offices were lent to the government as recruitment centres . |
| 8 | However , because of the blockade and the related famine , they continued to eat the contaminated flour until the local authorities started an exchange for uncontaminated flour in mid-December , 1992 . |
| 9 | But although the cane continued to rise and fall with a terrible regularity , and they continued to hear the awful blows landing , no sound came from their brother . |
| 10 | The British were mistaken in supposing that they continued to have the same sovereign and therefore the same national identity vis-à-vis the outside world as the Canadians . |
| 11 | They continued to occupy the 4th Division 's Camp Evangalista headquarters in Cagayan de Oro , however , which Noble had designated his headquarters . |
| 12 | Nor did they continue to deploy the full panoply of radical techniques in moments of perceived social and political crisis . |