Example sentences of "and [noun] continued to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early foreign residents were exposed to sporadic physical attacks by extreme anti-foreign elements , and anti-foreignism continued to be exploited by the Bakufu 's enemies to compound its political difficulties . |
| 2 | Her experience and expertise continued to be put to valuable use , and she found she enjoyed her increased leisure time all the more . |
| 3 | But there was no suggestion that Gray had been involved in anything improper and Jefferson continued to be involved in youth work . |
| 4 | If feeding and antibiotics continued to be administered Tony could be expected to live for a few more years . |
| 5 | Perhaps surprisingly , however , a great many funeral monuments survived the destruction of the civil war period , and indeed new tombs and monuments continued to be commissioned and placed in parish churches throughout the 1640s and 1650s . |
| 6 | But deaths and injuries still occurred , and blame continued to be attached to ineffective , unfocused or misguided practice . |
| 7 | Mixed stands of oak and ash continued to be planted upto 1945 . |
| 8 | Returning from a five-day visit to Guinea on Feb. 23 , 1990 , Momoh declared that the smuggling trade between Sierra Leone and Guinea continued to be a stumbling block to the recovery of the fragile economies of the two countries . |
| 9 | On the assumption that neither Hezarfen on the one hand nor Ali and Kocu Bey on the other is simply in error , one can perhaps reconcile these two apparently contradictory statements on the grounds either that it was only in the technical matter of the that Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa continued to be regarded as 300-akce kadiliks , their holders actually being given 500 akce a day ; or that , while still being paid only 300 akce a day , they had come to be regarded as 500-akce mevleviyets from the hierarchical point of view , for the obvious reason that they were in fact higher in rank than any of the other kadiliks . |
| 10 | For the next two or three years the directions , possibilities and practicalities continued to be discussed , with those polytechnic directors on the Council and its committees having a particularly difficult part to play in formulating policy . |
| 11 | The Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) summit in Bishkek on Oct. 9 , while expressing concern over the situation , failed to agree on sending peacekeeping forces , and weaponry continued to be supplied to Tajikistan through border incursions from Afghanistan , despite the reinforcment of border troops [ see pp. 39097-98 ] . |
| 12 | The benefits arising from contacts and participation in markets increased progressively with the number of firms in the locality , and firms continued to be attracted to the centre because of the numbers already there . |
| 13 | Despite his good intentions , and despite the more rational management principles and institutions introduced by Speranskii , the actual administration of Siberia , the manner of its economic exploitation , the low levels of popular enlightenment , the permanently suppurating sore of the exile system , the treatment of the native population — which still ranged from the paternalistic to the spasmodically genocidal — and the survival of traditional ‘ imperialist ’ attitudes in St Petersburg , meant that in practice the old core-periphery , metropolis-frontier relationships still remained in force , and Siberia continued to be treated and governed in a manner which reflected its original quasi-colonial status . |
| 14 | Writs for the holding of the regard in forests such as Sherwood , Galtres , pickering , Inglewood and Rutland continued to be sent out from the Chancery during the fifteenth century , but the Forest Eyre , which would have punished offences revealed by the regard , had now almost fallen into desuetude . |
| 15 | Toll houses were positioned at either end and tolls continued to be collected until 1873 . |
| 16 | The Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer continued to be used in many parishes throughout the Interregnum ; parents continued to choose godparents for their children , and mothers continued to be churched following childbirth . |
| 17 | Differentiation between the education of girls and boys continued to be discussed throughout the period . |
| 18 | The ‘ phenomenally good news ’ was that between 1987 and 1992 the growth in the number of book buyers had outstripped the growth in the population , and reading continued to be a weekly activity for 71% of it . |
| 19 | Koreans serving in the police force were often extremely brutal in their conduct and it is hardly surprising that they were a target for revenge after the termination of Japanese rule ; many of them served under the American occupation and in South Korea from 1948 and vengeance continued to be taken at periodic intervals for years to come . |