Example sentences of "[vb mod] continue [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Low overwinter fine root mortality , relative to growing season mortality , might be due to low maintenance respiration rates under cold soil temperatures , but it is unclear why roots produced in the 1989 growing season should continue to die at a slower rate during the 1990 growing season . |
| 2 | The rate of disconnections fell by nearly 50% , and should continue to fall over the next six months . |
| 3 | In a joint communiqué issued after the meeting both sides agreed that Hong Kong should continue to participate in the activities of two international satellite communications bodies . |
| 4 | Amnesty International also expressed concern that the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights , currently in force in Macao by virtue of Portugal 's ratification , should continue to apply to the MSAR beyond 1999 . |
| 5 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 6 | The G M B must continue to argue at every at , at every level locally , regionally and nationally to ensure that our members are properly trained to meet the challenges that lie ahead . |
| 7 | Besides , say the Liberal Club 's supporters , Civic Forum has a responsibility to carry out its programme and must continue to function until the next general election , in less than two years ' time . |
| 8 | The G M B must continue to fight for the best health and safety standards at the workplace . |
| 9 | Substitute care while a child or young person is away from home , must continue to provide for the child 's overall development . |
| 10 | However , NATO would remain a defensive alliance and must continue to provide for the common defence , while enhancing its political component . |
| 11 | Ousley says business is now split 60%-40% in favour of open systems versus the maintenance and servicing of its 1,800-odd remaining Cyber mainframe sites , which it 'll continue to support beyond the year 2000 . |
| 12 | The veterans say they 'll continue to fight for the truth to be revealed about what they say was a ’ crime against humanity ’ . |
| 13 | Despite the bad news Julie says she 'll continue to fight for the sons she 's lost . |
| 14 | Every able-bodied man in Uig signed a petition asking that the parish should be disjoined from Lewis and added to Harris so that they could continue to benefit from the employment Lord Leverhulme offered . |
| 15 | For another year , the Genoese could continue to squat in the wreck of the city , clutching the rights to their ruined , foundering colony ; promoting nothing ; permitting nothing to flourish , either of theirs or the Bastard 's . |
| 16 | Lee Kuan Yew , the former Prime Minister and current Senior Minister who had held this post for some 35 years , would continue to serve as a member of the party 's central executive committee . |
| 17 | Afterwards , Nathan Shamuyarira , the Foreign Minister and ZANU 's information and publicity secretary , and one of Mugabe 's strongest supporters , said that ZANU would continue to press for a formal one-party system , but by means of " intensive political mobilization " of the population rather than by legislation . |
| 18 | Howie Armstrong , Scottish co-ordinator of the EPOCH campaign , End Physical Punishment of Children , said the organisation would continue to press for an end to all forms of corporal punishment against children . |
| 19 | Subsequent Foreign Ministry reaction was , however , more cautious , with officials expressing " satisfaction " while stressing that Iran would continue to press for the complete acceptance of Resolution 598 including provisions relating to international help with post-war reconstruction , and condemnation of the guilty party in starting the Gulf war , followed by war reparations . |
| 20 | The party would continue to adhere to the three non-nuclear principles enshrined within the country 's Constitution which prohibited the production , possession or siting in Japan of nuclear weapons . |
| 21 | While she still had light she would continue to search for a way out ; she would — |
| 22 | On the assumption that they would continue to fall at the same rate as in the first half of the decade , it was estimated that the population would be only one tenth of its size in a hundred years time . |
| 23 | The unions accused Timex of having engineered the strike and said they would continue to demonstrate outside the plant until the bitter end , which will come at Christmas . |
| 24 | Support for farmers under the common agricultural policy would also rise in real terms , but would continue to decline as a share of the total budget . |
| 25 | For a short period previously produced , but non-expelled , hydrocarbons would continue to migrate from the sediments . |
| 26 | But even if all the power stations were shut down immediately , acid and sulphur would continue to bleed from the soil for years to come . |
| 27 | Austria would continue to abide by the State Treaty and to ban nuclear , chemical and biological weapons . |
| 28 | In consideration of this agreement , the accountants would continue to act in the sale of the business and meet creditors when required . |
| 29 | Successful Faulknerite unionists would continue to act in the new parliament as members of the Conservative Party . |
| 30 | The system of tripartisme ( three-party co-operation ) had survived the strains of devising a constitution and the elections to a National Assembly in November showed that stable government would continue to rely on the main parties working together : the Communists now had 29 per cent of the vote , the Christian Democrats 26 per cent and the Socialists 18 per cent . |