Example sentences of "continued [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not because the decision in Spain weighed on him , but because while Niki 's Ferrari continued to perform with unfailing reliability , his own car , due to minute adjustments to accommodate new regulations , was turning into a pig : proof once again that even the tiniest changes in a car can gravely affect its performance and that it is the smallest defects that are the hardest to detect . |
| 2 | The Autonomous Region of South Ossetia continued to come under heavy attack from Georgian forces sited outside its capital , Tskhinvali , which was cut off from aid ; there were reports of hostage-taking . |
| 3 | Almost from the outset , the measure provoked fierce ethical debate , and while the 12 nations of the European Community continued to grapple with commercial aspects of biotechnology , the 26-nation Council of Europe has been working toward an international convention on human rights questions in bioethics . |
| 4 | The weather continued to deteriorate with low-flying scud and rain squalls from the west . |
| 5 | Worsley continued to write on general policy questions , but he also tried to turn his knowledge to profit . |
| 6 | Despite the disputes that had occurred , and even though 1963 gave a strong indication that de Gaulle 's interpretation of the treaty might be very different , the Six had still in many ways continued to work in reasonable harmony on the Rome timetable . |
| 7 | In 1702 , after the king 's death , he settled in the Netherlands , where he continued to work in close collaboration with Machado and Pereira . |
| 8 | The actual administration of the National Union was separated from Central Office in 1921 , and it appointed its own secretary thereafter ; it was a change of no great importance , for the National Union continued to work from Central Office and the Principal Agent continued to be Honorary Secretary , but it was a minor declaration of independence . |
| 9 | Their study shows that every $10 of interest payments per year and per person means 142 days less of life on average , had life expectancy continued to increase at pre-debt crisis rates . |
| 10 | The fog-horn , its sound now muffled by the houses , continued to bleat at regular intervals . |
| 11 | He continued to suffer from periodic chest infections throughout his early manhood ; but the earliest symptoms of his terminal illness appeared in 1784 , when he was attacked by violent colic , vomiting , and rheumatic fever , resulting from a virus caught during an epidemic . |
| 12 | The mist still limited visibility to less than a hundred yards and the fog-horn continued to blare at regular intervals . |
| 13 | The Nonconformists continued to split into different sects — Particular Baptists and General Baptists , for instance — and to form intense new groups , often with peculiar local names . |
| 14 | Light continued to engage in private trade during the 1770s and early 1780s , notably in Salang off the north-west coast of Thailand . |
| 15 | After the collapse of the plot Montgomerie fled to London , but he continued to engage in Jacobite intrigue , and in late 1691 he tried to encourage a rising of Presbyterian extremists in the south-western lowlands . |
| 16 | They continued to evolve with undiminished vigour through the Tertiary , and their fossil remains are nowhere more abundant than in the ‘ crags ’ of later Tertiary age . |
| 17 | It so happened that this entailed doubling back a considerable way of the route , but , so Mr Charles assures me , my father accepted the request as though it were a perfectly reasonable one , and in general , continued to behave with immaculate courtesy . |
| 18 | The agricultural sector continued to lag behind other areas of the economy . |
| 19 | He continued to serve on increasing numbers of parliamentary committees until his death 26 March 1652 . |
| 20 | IN AN entry of over 1,000 cattle at McClelland 's Mart , Ballyclare , animals continued to sell at exceptional rates although prices slightly eased on the previous week . |
| 21 | It is unclear whether or not he also continued acting for other litigants . |
| 22 | The FT-SE 100 Index continued to sail into unchartered waters and a further £3bn flooded into the market on hopes that the recession may have finally blown itself out . |
| 23 | Certainly the Americans continued to look for alternative strategies , both to raise the nuclear threshold and ( because they felt the Europeans left them too few military options ) to ensure that small nuclear weapons could still be used for war-fighting . |
| 24 | Peter Costain , chief executive , admitted that the company had followed the wrong strategy when it continued to buy into commercial property at the peak of the market . |
| 25 | Current expenditure continued to grow in real terms , that is allowing for the effect of general inflation , but capital expenditure fell sharply ( DOE/Welsh Office 1983a:5 — 6 ) . |
| 26 | Whilst most parents ' groups continued to focus on mutual support , these examples of service provision represent a considerable net addition to the facilities available in the County ; they also reflect the powerful moral and practical support given to the development of parents ' groups by the CMHTs . |
| 27 | Not long after this , Lewis and Williams met in London , as they continued to do at irregular intervals for the next three years . |
| 28 | He was fired for serious misconduct when he continued to put in extra hours despite an overtime ban and after bosses at the NCP pound in central London alleged that time sheets had been altered . |
| 29 | The opposition attacked the ruling ID as the only government in Latin America which continued to insist on state-led growth rather than market-orientated economic reforms . |
| 30 | Equally , the extension of the traditional practice of periodic redistribution of the land between households continued to militate against individual initiative . |