Example sentences of "[noun] continue [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The opening of our new office demonstrates our commitment to our future involvement in Slovakia and gives us the opportunity to continue to build on the excellent relations that have already been established , ’ he added . |
| 2 | But despite this slight shift in the taboos , as late as the 1920s Havelock Ellis and Albert Moll were still able to recommend little metal suits of armour fitted over the genitals and attached to a locked belt as prophylaxis for masturbation , and sex education books continued to inveigh against the solitary vice well into the second half of the century . |
| 3 | Bernice continued to walk through the endless corridors . |
| 4 | Still the stitch continued to drop in the same area . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , some optimists continue to refer to the primary visual area in the rat as ‘ striate ’ cortex . |
| 6 | The family who had owned and operated the mill continued to live in the imposing nearby mill house , but were unable to fund a restoration of the redundant mill , so that when a Repairs Notice was served on them by the local authority , they were obliged to sell the building . |
| 7 | The various types of Housing Associations continued to grow after the 1914–18 war , and under the Acts of 1930 , 1936 and 1949 they became eligible for subsidies under certain conditions . |
| 8 | A statement warned : ‘ So long as the SDLP continue to exercise a veto on political progress in Ulster , courtesy of IRA violence , and so long as Sinn Fein/IRA continue to act as the military wing of Irish nationalism , then so long will our war against them continue and intensify . ’ |
| 9 | Apart from strong results from telephone giant AT&T , Coca-Cola and American Airlines , Wall Street continued to benefit from the central bank 's recent monetary easing . |
| 10 | Youth Club a ] Membership continues to rise in the junior club . |
| 11 | Membership continues to rise in the junior club . |
| 12 | Despite rising expenditure , the ratio of paupers to total population continued to fall from the 1870s and rose only slightly during the depression of 1903–05 . |
| 13 | I am glad that the business continues to flourish in the capable hands of Rodney Shipsey — the third generation . |
| 14 | Of the 80 to 90 staff employed in Liverpool and Watford all the 55 directors and senior managers eligible for the relocation package continued to work in the new location and of these 55 , all but three moved to Congleton . |
| 15 | Familiarity bred business so it seemed , as established dealers with a limited clientele continued to deal with the same few people day after day , generating sometimes fantastic commissions for themselves , as well as token fines for the overtrading habits that ironically were tacitly encouraged . |
| 16 | Universities continued to languish through the eighties . |
| 17 | For example , in 1983 it was said that ‘ even where the husband had been violent , it would be reasonable for the wife to continue to reside in the matrimonial home but to seek a court order restraining his violence or barring him from the home ’ and in these circumstances the authority 's duty would be ‘ to advise the applicant so to do , not to accommodate her as a homeless person ’ . |
| 18 | I expect demand for this service to continue to grow over the coming year . |
| 19 | Will my right hon. Friend continue to build on the excellent relationship between the Government of the United Kingdom and that of India , especially on the question of the vale of Kashmir ? |
| 20 | Other speakers at the conference pointed out that over-abstraction from rivers leads to a falling rate of flow which critically affects the rivers ' ecology , and they warned the situation may deteriorate as water continues to increase in the 1990s . |
| 21 | This was a fairly close spread of votes though the relative positions of the ten candidates had changed significantly between Stage I and Stage V. Positions continued to change through the remaining Stages of the count . |
| 22 | Further evidence continued to emerge during the second half of 1989 that the world was becoming gradually warmer . |
| 23 | If CFC emissions continue to increase at the current rate , they would cause an extra 2C of warming over the same period . |
| 24 | But profits continued to fall in the troubled consultancy division which is up for sale . |
| 25 | But profits continued to fall in the troubled consultancy division which is up for sale . |
| 26 | Profits continued to improve within the Premier Fabrics and Yarns businesses and J E Morgan Heavyweight and there was a significant profit recovery at Blackwood Brothers . |
| 27 | Acts of 1962 , 1968 and 1971 restricted immigration from Commonwealth countries but , because the entry of dependent relatives of earlier immigrants was not restricted , the total numbers of migrants continued to grow throughout the 1960s . |
| 28 | The reader 's sympathy towards Pip continues to fall during the second part of his expectations due to his rejection and embarrassment of his past life . |
| 29 | If this analysis is correct , then although many ‘ working class ’ people continued to think of the Labour Party as ‘ their ’ party in some vague sense , it was actually losing contact with their day-to-day political concerns and subsequently losing active working class support at a local level . |
| 30 | Trade continued to fluctuate in the 1880s , and from now on worries were regularly expressed in the STC : " however reluctant we may have been to realise the position into which we were slowly but surely drifting " the threat was now a permanent reality . " |