Example sentences of "[modal v] continue to [be] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 However , at the centre of the understanding must lie an awareness that schools and colleges have always been in the business of change , created by responding to the needs of individual children and students and that the child at school or the student at college must continue to be the central focus of all educational activity .
2 Increasingly open discussion of the subject in the Turkish press made it clear that the Kurdish issue would continue to be the main political problem facing the government .
3 The UK would continue to be the main market for this supply in Europe , accounting for 29 per cent of NZ world sheep meat earnings and 27 per cent by volume .
4 It will continue to be the principal focus , but the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the other welcome developments in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe permit changes to NATO 's strategy and will enable us to maintain our security with smaller forces .
5 But all the signs are that although bottles will continue to be the major end product for ‘ Melinar ’ and will continue to gain business , mainly at the expense of glass , other very important applications will also develop .
6 Currently interconnection services are provided by Mercury Communications Ltd exclusively , and TeleWest says that Mercury will continue to be the preferred carrier of national and international calls .
7 It is probable that the species commonly called summer or spring wheat will continue to be the favourite sort of this grain ; and although the cultivation of it may not perhaps be advisable in general over the Hebrides , yet , in consequence of various circumstances favourable to it in Islay , and especially the building of a flour mill by the enlightened and patriotic proprietor , ( which cost him £1200 ) , this valuable crop may be extended over a large portion of the best farms in the island .
8 Even after the RICS rules on the methods of carrying on business are further relaxed , partnership may continue to be the normal form .
9 Does the Secretary of State agree that one of the most successful recipients of inward investment has been and can continue to be the financial services sector ?
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