Example sentences of "[vb pp] to continue [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well managed and financially sound , it is well placed to continue to outperform . ’ |
| 2 | InterCity is forecast to continue reducing costs and invest £750million within five years . |
| 3 | Previously those living with their parents would have been expected to continue living there . |
| 4 | Some of our business sectors , notably nitrogen and solvents , are expected to continue to perform well and will be operated to generate cash to help fund growth sectors elsewhere . |
| 5 | While the seven sectors examined were expected to continue to create jobs until the end of the decade , that rate of increase is predicted to be lower than in the recent past , as new technology and industrial concentration increase productivity . |
| 6 | Moreover , business failures are expected to continue rising , especially among small firms . |
| 7 | The growth rate in 1990 was expected to continue to decline as it did in 1989 , partly because of a predicted economic slowdown in the USA which was the destination of 30 per cent of Singapore 's exports . |
| 8 | The electronics division of EMI was expected to continue to generate cash , initially at a higher level than the scanner operation and ending up at about the same amount . |
| 9 | The great motive power behind information technology is ever-diminishing unit costs , so that the application of computers can be expected to continue to proliferate . |
| 10 | Relations with Taiwan were expected to be downgraded to " representative " status , but Taiwan 's state-run Chinese Petroleum Corporation was expected to continue to buy the bulk of its crude oil from Saudi Arabia . |
| 11 | The contribution made by occupational pensions is expected to continue to grow . |
| 12 | Stuart Gee , National Sales Manager of Tarmac Bricks and Tiles is equally buoyant about long-term prospects : ‘ Although the market is currently sluggish , the popularity of natural clay products is expected to continue to grow , stimulated by an expansion in pitched roof construction . |
| 13 | The CBI 's latest quarterly industrial trends survey shows that confidence is virtually non-existent , and that new orders are expected to continue falling . |
| 14 | In the managers ' view , now is a good time to invest in European bonds as returns remain high , inflation is low , and the Bundesbank and other central banks are expected to continue to lower interest rates . |
| 15 | The numbers are declining , and are expected to continue declining until 1992 , when they will begin to increase again ( DES , 1989c ) . |
| 16 | Arms production declined in 1989 and was expected to continue declining . |
| 17 | He added that as much as a third of BP 's oil production was expected to continue to come from the North Sea until the turn of the century . |
| 18 | But the property profit is expected to continue growing . |
| 19 | The elderly population is expected to continue growing , in the foreseeable future , but at a slower rate than in the recent past . |
| 20 | Tourist numbers currently total 50 million annually , and demand is expected to continue growing well into the next century . |
| 21 | Thereafter Trusts will be expected to continue to provide such services subject to review at the request of either party to the contract and , in the event of disagreement , the approval of the Secretary of State . ’ |
| 22 | Despite the publicity given to deforestation of the tropics , such land-use changes are expected to continue to contribute less to annual carbon emissions than those from fossil-fuel burning . |
| 23 | He was expected to continue to pursue the broad objectives of the outgoing government , including regional peace in accordance with President Arias 's 1987 peace plan ( Esquipulas II — see p. 35441-42 ) , to which he had initially been opposed . |
| 24 | We are therefore committed to continue managing rivers , as we are to managing every square mile of the English countryside . |
| 25 | A clearinghouse must be highly visible , and the librarian actively reminded to continue to contribute . |
| 26 | It was not designed to continue to seek closer economic unification . |
| 27 | In future EC airline pilots will be permitted to continue flying commercially between the ages of 60 and 65 years providing that they fly as part of a two- or three-pilot crew . Ed |
| 28 | Under the scheme , forest management and surveillance will be maintained and local people will be permitted to continue to exploit the forest in ways that are supportive of existing ecosystems . |
| 29 | Before the Bill came before the House , we decided to make a change so that an authority with very enlightened policies — such as East Northants — which was able to reduce both its community charge and that which the county imposed should be permitted to continue doing so under the council tax . |
| 30 | ‘ that , although , by the indulgence of the court , a statutory tenant might be permitted to continue to occupy premises after the making of an order for possession , he was not , during such a period of occupation , a statutory tenant with all the rights to protection conferred by the Rent Restriction Acts which he had enjoyed before the order for possession was made ; and , consequently , the daughter could not claim protection as a ‘ tenant ’ under section 12 , subsection ( 1 ) … ’ |