Example sentences of "continue to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to imprisonment , those believed to have advocated Irian Jaya 's independence , whether through peaceful or violent means , continue to be at risk of torture , ill-treatment , ‘ disappearance ’ , and extrajudicial execution by Indonesian security forces . |
| 2 | It is in this way that the Roman catholic bishops of Ireland , as intellectuals organizing the beliefs of catholic nationalists , continue to be aligned to the forces of conservatism within the alliance , forces which in practice do not recognize important protestant civil rights in Ireland . |
| 3 | I continue to be surprised all those little panes of glass have n't been smashed in , but a metal door comes down at night and the neighbourhood is full of tourists anyway . |
| 4 | classic traditional inns continue to be destroyed in favour of theme-pub concepts . |
| 5 | According to Swiss Re , the banks and building societies continue to be very strong in the 15-24 age group . |
| 6 | If European Parliament elections continue to be treated semi-frivolously , such extremists as Mr Le Pen will be over-represented in Strasbourg . |
| 7 | But whatever change there is in the higher echelons of the RUC 's bureaucracy ( and some policewomen say there is little ) , sexist attitudes are widespread amongst ordinary policemen , and , in the day-to-day police work of a station , policewomen 's routine duties continue to be structured by gender . |
| 8 | As the year ended the events in the Gulf reminded us sharply that we can not take peach and freedom for granted , and that substantial risks continue to be faced by those serving in the Royal Air Force . |
| 9 | In Norway and Denmark there continue to be high levels of popular support for state-provided welfare but there has been a marked and sustained shift against state control and intervention in the economy . |
| 10 | In the larger cities of Nigeria traditional clothes and the more basic household goods all continue to be made by local artisans . |
| 11 | Large-scale , private businesses in manufacturing , geared to relatively high-value consumer products , will find little room for expansion as the incomes of most urban consumers continue to be very modest . |
| 12 | The difficulties of collecting taxes from millions of small-scale urban and rural producers wilt ensure that revenues continue to be inadequate in relation to the expectation of services such as universal primary and secondary education , health services , and transportation . |
| 13 | Vehicle checks continue to be sent and are processed . |
| 14 | A Midland spokesman said : ‘ The assets of the trust have been and continue to be under the control of the trustee whose objective remains that of insuring that the interests of the investors are protected . ’ |
| 15 | We know with some confidence that if greenhouse gases continue to be emitted in their present quantities , we will experience unprecedented rates of sea-level rise . |
| 16 | While the politicians make their excuses , the pilot whales continue to be cruelly slaughtered , and their populations in the North Atlantic grow increasingly scarce . |
| 17 | Problems with the Chernobyl power station continue to be dealt with on a crisis-by-crisis basis . |
| 18 | Political opponents continue to be arbitrarily arrested ; the death sentence against Salman Rushdie has not been lifted ; at least 13 western hostages ( six Americans , five Britons and two Germans ) are still held by pro-Iranian kidnappers in Lebanon . |
| 19 | They continue to be sources of selling pressure . |
| 20 | During the conferences floppy disks containing home-grown software are exchanged like coinage , and between conferences software and messages continue to be exchanged by electronic mail . |
| 21 | Medicine is a powerful system of knowledge , and one that affects us all ; it is therefore illuminating to find that within modern medical thought these fragments continue to be influential . |
| 22 | I shall draw from studies of nineteenth-century medicine which show how the Female was defined in certain ways , and I shall look at early psychoanalytic theory in the light of this , to show how the demands of female desire continue to be a problem for modern culture . |
| 23 | Women continue to be defined by a passive and automatic reproductive cycle , and sex continues to be determined by male desire and female consent ( and sometimes even that is n't necessary ) . |
| 24 | I ca n't remember now , but I still love it and continue to be amazed every time I see it in a catalogue for it seeds itself as freely as any common plantain . |
| 25 | Nowadays , if staying overnight far away from any of the royal residences , she tends to use the royal train , but lord lieutenants continue to be drawn from the same big houses . |
| 26 | I continue to be very depressed , and last night I took a kitchen knife to my bedroom and drew blood from my wrist . |
| 27 | Both Halsey and Goldthorpe ( 21 ) , ( 22 ) , separately have found that the privileged continue to be so over the years when we have claimed that educational opportunity was available to the able child . |
| 28 | Thus the teachings of the Puritans , and their successors , Bible-believing Christians , continue to be an influence of incalculable benefit to people today . |
| 29 | In the sluggishly expanding industrial labour market women have lost ground relative to men , and an important proportion of the women who must seek work because of inadequate earnings of the husband or because the family lacks a male breadwinner continue to be restricted to domestic service , street vending , and other marginal low-income occupations . |
| 30 | For this reason , amongst others , it may be anticipated that many parents of children who truant will , at the end of the day , continue to be dealt with in punitive fashion . |