Example sentences of "continue [to-vb] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that we seem to be approaching , by way of plate tectonics and sea-floor spreading , some sort of general theory of earth history acceptable to the physicists , it is perhaps unwise to continue to hypothesise in this way . |
| 2 | Far Eastern companies continue to invest in promising fledgling US companies , and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has taken a 20% stake in Colorado Springs , Colorado-based Array Microsystems Inc ; the value of the investment was not disclosed . |
| 3 | A typical school policy statement about staff development will include definitions such as " it is essential that we continue to grow in professional stature and experience , backed by the support of a comprehensive programme of in-service opportunities designed to help all of us to meet the growing demands with confidence , a sense of purpose and , as can be the case , an increased personal job satisfaction " ( Hewton 1988:88 ) . |
| 4 | WACC 's Latin American/Caribbean Regional Association sent a strong message to the Haïtian authorities soon after the coup , and WACC-LA/C representatives continue to keep in close touch with the situation . |
| 5 | One lot of As holds that not only do girls succeed in primary school , they continue to succeed in secondary school . |
| 6 | These issues continue to lurk in social experience today , but they do so in profoundly different ways . |
| 7 | They continue to languish in legal limbo . |
| 8 | But the medals have continued to arrive in this country and among the latest batch of heroes to receive one is Darlington man George Stevens . |
| 9 | Perhaps again due to Hesilrige 's patronage , he became clerk of the council under the restored Commonwealth of May to October 1659 ; less predictably , however , he seems to have continued to act in this capacity under the ill-fated committee of safety ( October-December 1659 ) , this time committing himself to the service of the generals , notably Charles Fleetwood and John Lambert [ qq.v. ] , rather than the civilian leaders in the restored Rump , among whom Hesilrige was the leading figure . |
| 10 | They will make things there which , if the climate were better and the labour more flexible and less expensive , they would have continued to make in this country . |
| 11 | The Association continues to work in close co-operation with the RAF Benevolent Fund . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In 1702 , after the king 's death , he settled in the Netherlands , where he continued to work in close collaboration with Machado and Pereira . |
| 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 | He continued to serve in this role , in addition to his other duties , until he retired in 1959 . |
| 17 | We can of course continue to talk in jurisdictional terminology ; we can say that a tribunal 's jurisdiction is conditional on it making no errors of law . |
| 18 | When Parliament was in recess , the Whig leaders continued to keep in close touch , usually by gathering at their country houses , though occasionally holding more formal councils at Newmarket . |
| 19 | St Antonino of Florence felt that the professional soldier could not fight in a war the justice of which was not above doubt , nor could he be given absolution as long as he continued to fight in that cause . |
| 20 | They continued to watch in stunned silence as Guy ran up the stairs and disappeared through the doorway , then turned to look at each other . |
| 21 | While ordinary young people lose their homes and families struggle to feed and clothe their children , the Royal Family continues to live in obscene luxury . |
| 22 | What do you continue to admire in American culture ? |
| 23 | As long as young pro-European forces can continue to develop in this country , I think that a positive change in attitude is possible . |
| 24 | A guardian ad litem appointed in emergency protection proceedings will usually continue to act in any care proceedings which follow . |
| 25 | We have been conceiving and speaking of causal circumstances as sets of conditions , and will continue to speak in this way . |
| 26 | In discussing the interactions of mental illnesses and brain failure Gray and Isaacs ( 1979 ) showed that illnesses such as depression , psychosis and neurosis do continue to occur in old age but are more likely to recur than appear for the first time . |