Example sentences of "[noun] continued [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Bernice continued to walk through the endless corridors . |
| 3 | Still the stitch continued to drop in the same area . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Universities continued to languish through the eighties . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Further evidence continued to emerge during the second half of 1989 that the world was becoming gradually warmer . |
| 13 | But profits continued to fall in the troubled consultancy division which is up for sale . |
| 14 | But profits continued to fall in the troubled consultancy division which is up for sale . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . " |
| 19 | Comedies continued to pull in the biggest audiences , followed by thrillers and adventure films . |
| 20 | Blake continued to walk through the fog-shrouded streets . |
| 21 | PAY increases continued to fall in the three months to the end of February , figures out today show . |
| 22 | PAY increases continued to slow in the three months to January but still kept ahead of inflation , a report shows today . |
| 23 | The television centre was occupied by the opposition on Sept. 21 , but their attempts to broadcast were prevented by the government 's cutting electricity supplies to the building , while Gamsakhurdia continued to broadcast from the Supreme Soviet building . |
| 24 | A few years earlier it had been calculated that if the populations of modern cities continued to increase in the 20th century , so would the horse-traffic , and that by 1960 cities like New York , London , and Glasgow , would be 100 feet deep in horse manure . |
| 25 | These major groups continued to evolve throughout the following 600 million years , and they include the distant ancestors of our living fauna . |
| 26 | IT had been the intention to suffer in silence for the rest of the season while the mighty Quakers continued to plummet towards the familiar , comfy surroundings of Division Four . |
| 27 | Athletics continued to prosper by the increasing infusion of blacks into sprint and jumping events , though it was a decathlete , Daley Thompson , who , in 1980 , became the most successful black British-based athlete since Arthur Wint , by winning an Olympic gold medal and , for a spell , holding the world 's decathlon record . |
| 28 | After Tvrtko 's death the Bosnian nobles quarrelled and , although the Kotromanić family continued to reign for the next seventy years , their power rapidly declined . |
| 29 | The authority of the archbishop of Canterbury continued to bear on the Northumbrian Church . |
| 30 | Recession may be burying the major continental economies , with the likelihood that things will get much worse before they start to get better , but the European personal computer market continued to prosper in the first quarter , the Wall Street Journal reports . |