Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] continued to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | and the UndergrounD Group , as North and West cars continued to be overhauled at Hendon and South and East cars at Charlton , for some long time afterwards . |
| 2 | Local distress funds continued to be raised in periods and places of acute distress , although they came increasingly under government control . |
| 3 | Evidence from manufacturing also indicates that drinking customs continued to be linked to beer consumption , quite often expected from employers as a perquisite . |
| 4 | Co-opted members of council committees continued to be entitled to a financial loss allowance if they could show loss of earnings resulting from council work . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , world petroleum prices continued to be well below OPEC 's reference or target price of US$18 per barrel ; at the end of April the average price of a basket of seven " crudes " monitored by OPEC stood at $15.37 per barrel . |
| 6 | New savings and mortgage products continued to be developed and launched by the Society , including Multipoint , Quantum Plus , Easy 3 mortgage and the Self-Build mortgage . |
| 7 | Funeral monuments continued to be erected in parish churches in all parts of the country throughout the seventeenth century . |
| 8 | In 1980 , fewer than 6% of the total school population were attending assisted and independent schools — yet more than a quarter of University entrants continued to be drawn from private schools . |
| 9 | Court cases continued to be held in the town for the next 100 years , with the bowed front added in 1839 to provide living quarters for the gaoler . |
| 10 | While permanent courts were established in the main centres of population , High Court judges continued to be itinerant , backed up by circuit judges sitting continuously in the main centres . |
| 11 | Video recorders continued to be a popular buy . |
| 12 | Pottery materials continued to be carried on the canal until the 1960s . |
| 13 | Undoubtedly the succession was an important issue ; the terms Whig and Tory had been coined in the first place to describe different sides taken during the Exclusion controversy , whilst for a long time after the Glorious Revolution Whigs continued to be able to embarrass the Tories by alleging that their attachment to the divine-right , hereditary succession meant that deep-down they were Jacobite sympathisers . |
| 14 | Woodacon Oils continued to be a steady performer , increasing its product storage capacity . |
| 15 | Although there had been an appreciable rise in incomes , supplies in the state shops continued to be poor , encouraging a growing black market [ for clampdown in August against black marketeers see p. 37665 ] . |
| 16 | Heavy government casualties continued to be reported . |
| 17 | Upstream oil and gas profits continued to be under pressure from low oil prices . |
| 18 | According to reports , however , former ZAPU members continued to be disgruntled at the unequal distribution of Cabinet portfolios . |
| 19 | Although agroforestry practices continued to be significant in tropical agricultural systems , in the ensuing period they achieved increasing importance in development policies from the 1970s as a means of optimising tropical land-use ( Bene et al. 1977 ) . |
| 20 | Funding for training activities continued to be tight but Enterprise Training through its concentration on quality and output achieved an increase in revenue during the year . |
| 21 | However , all the evidence concerning mining villages , where fertility rates continued to be high until the 1930s and where the average age at marriage was also significantly lower than the national average , suggests that role relationships within marriage were segregated . |
| 22 | Two large hotel groups continued to be unsettled from yesterday 's suspension of Queens Moat Houses . |
| 23 | Tutorial Classes continued to be seen as the most important element in the WEA 's programme and there had been some increase in their provision in recent years . |
| 24 | Although some public enterprises , such as the state airline Iberia , were permitted to negotiate convenios from the mid-1960s , the pay and conditions of RENFE workers continued to be determined by ministry of labour directives.Extremely detailed ordinances covered every aspect of remuneration , working hours , staffing , recruitment , promotion , transfer and discipline . |
| 25 | In the second half of the century decisions continued to be taken by a series of similar committees and indirectly by the seven provinces which sent delegates to the States-General . |
| 26 | Taylor-Morgan warned that low production , low exports , a deteriorating balance of payments and inability to service debt repayments continued to be serious problems . |
| 27 | In the early second century women continued to be portrayed with their hair piled in tiers above the brow , but the tightly restrained locks were deeply unflattering in comparison with the coiffures of Flavian portraits . |
| 28 | Position papers continued to be drafted in the State Department in 1944–45 with preference being expressed for a unified administration in Korea as part of the trusteeship rather than the creation of military zones . |
| 29 | Jet ornaments continued to be buried with the dead during the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in Yorkshire . |
| 30 | Party meetings continued to be held at the Carlton and it played a greater part in holding the party together when the Liberal Unionists joined . |