Example sentences of "[noun pl] continue [to-vb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , it is argued that former communist officials in the Russian provinces continue to wield much power and are in a position to render executive decisions ineffective . |
| 2 | Manufacturers continue to demand more help from the Government in the shape of increased capital allowances ( already raised by Chancellor Nigel Lamont from 25% to 40% in the last Autumn Statement ) , some form of relief from advance corporation tax and cheaper export insurance . |
| 3 | Secondly , the high expectations aroused by civil rights legislation had been disappointed ; the conditions of most blacks continued to show little material improvement . |
| 4 | Communists continued to have some success among the unemployed , many of whom felt betrayed by the Labour government and ignored by the TUC . |
| 5 | However , according to a Market and Opinion Research International ( MORI ) poll , the Conservatives continued to draw more support from female than from male voters ( Table 5.6 ) . |
| 6 | The all-talking , all-colour films continued to receive more praise than perhaps could have been expected . |
| 7 | Chief officers continue to oppose any reform of the present system . |
| 8 | As the following sections show , however , case load problems were not as great as predicted ; and although the development officers continued to feel some lack of back-up services they did not consider it a severe impediment to their implementation of the project . |
| 9 | Throughout the social and satiric age of Augustan reason , poets continued to walk that way from time to time , indulging their anti-rational and unsociable propensities for solitude , melancholy , and intense emotion . |
| 10 | The New Contemporaries exhibitors continued to plot this constellation , using mixed media primarily associated with mutability , with process : substances like water or pastry , hair or wax , sand and vegetables , oil and light and cloth , which imply change over time . |
| 11 | The Americans continue to have little interest in British acts apart from Right Said Fred — Vanessa Williams is number one in the States with Save the Best for Last — but our old mates the Aussies ca n't get enough of our lads . |
| 12 | At the same time , Croatian and Serb forces continue to shell each other around Zadar . |
| 13 | The argument from numbers continues to have some appeal in the criminal law but there are now few situations in which there may be an indictment for conspiracy in respect of acts which would not be criminal if done by one person . |
| 14 | Abolitionists had to face the fact that for many of their fellow countrymen during the next thirty years open public meetings continued to have this resonance . |
| 15 | But when the portents continued to gather that autumn , and ruling the kingdom grew further and further from the planned exercise it had been and more like taking a fleet out in freakish , untoward weather , there was a change in Thorfinn as well : the extra swiftness , the finer edge , the sharper zest created by danger . |
| 16 | UNHCR officials said meanwhile that hundreds of Slavic Muslims continued to arrive each day in Srebrenica , where the mood was increasingly one of panic . |