Example sentences of "continues [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extensive range of Wedgwood jewellery has been complemented by the addition of fine bone china cameos and the collectability of Coalport figurines continues to go from strength to strength . |
| 2 | She continues to work for Survival International , the organisation that campaigns for threatened ‘ tribal ’ people . |
| 3 | Although I have described two applications of lasers in nuclear physics there are many others , and the number continues to increase as laser technology advances . |
| 4 | The salon Nautique continues to increase in importance as a major international exhibition ; its steady development reflects the growing importance of yachting as the basis for a major European industry . |
| 5 | She continues to suffer from episcleritis and has also been found to have an ovarian cyst , but there is no clinical , radiological , or laboratory evidence of active Crohn 's disease . |
| 6 | VMark Software Inc is setting up UK and European subsidiaries in Frensham , Surrey , and Paris , France : VMark UK Ltd is headed-up by Ed Aston , whilst Freddies Rodriguez continues to serve as manager of operations , now at VMark Europe Inc . |
| 7 | He continues to pant for breath . |
| 8 | The overall Trident programme continues to progress to time and within budget towards an in-service date of the mid-1990s . |
| 9 | Yet even this calculated white lie will not be a particularly helpful excuse if the limited FGD programme agreed by the CEGB continues to lag behind schedule . |
| 10 | There has been a small reduction in cigarette smoking , to 1,008 per capita ; military spending fell in 1990 and figures for 1991 were expected to show a further decline ; and significantly smaller quantities of ozone-depleting chemicals are being produced ; but , disturbingly , grain production has fallen while population continues to grow at record rates . |
| 11 | The visual system is complete at birth , although the eye continues to grow in size until adolescence . |
| 12 | The company continues to look for expansion opportunities , especially in Great Yarmouth , where the scale of production support operations enhances the benefits of resource sharing , an area in which the company has a proven record . |
| 13 | Microsoft also continues to press for acceptance of its proprietary LAN , e-mail and other technologies as standards despite the existence of de facto and de jure standards supported by desktop Unix systems , a position that must give users pause . |
| 14 | But while Bush continues to campaign with country music stars , the spectre of John Major at a tarted-up hoe-down here remains elusive . |
| 15 | There may be pragmatic merit in this , but the position continues to abound in anomaly . |
| 16 | The Third World has yet to industrialize ; methane continues to accumulate as agriculture spreads ; and the loss of tropical forest reduces CO 2 absorption . |
| 17 | Kossoff 's work continues to decline in value : having previously changed hands in the London trade for around £20,000 , the beautiful ‘ Pauline II ’ coloured chalk and charcoal ( lot 22 ) was bought for a bargain £3,200 ( $4,800 ) by another London dealer . |
| 18 | But Mr Fallon he said : ‘ Mr Milburn continues to think of nursery education as only council nursery schools . |
| 19 | The embryonic inequality and private property in the family continues to develop through time as the head of the family becomes more a patriarchal family chieftain ( the lineage elder of modern anthropology ) controlling the labour of the other members of the lineage . |
| 20 | This is partly because vocabulary is the most individualistic part of a person 's knowledge of language , and continues to develop throughout life , although its growth is clearly fastest in early years . |
| 21 | The committee also continues to act as adviser to the Professional Conduct Department on the technical aspects of disciplinary complaints . |
| 22 | Continues to improve with exercise . |
| 23 | It continues to chalk up record trade surpluses , but the first three months of 1992 are expected to show the second consecutive quarterly fall in gross domestic product , confirming that the Land of the Rising Sun is officially in recession . |
| 24 | There appear to be two types of modifiability in cortical neurons : a slow , irreversible process that occurs during early development , and a rapid , reversible one that continues to operate through life . |
| 25 | But if it continues to gain in stature , as is the case at the moment , then the necessary resources ought to be put into it by those who hold the purse-strings of archaeology . |
| 26 | But within this framework he continues to generalize about gender , seeing all , sexual relations as a battle ’ ( 1982 : 60 ) , an important part of the ‘ arms race ’ all genes conduct with each other . |