Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] continued [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the army and the navy had rudimentary organizations : naval supplies were provided by a clerk acting under the spasmodic supervision of the Lord Admiral while specific operations continued to be mounted by ad hoc commissions . |
| 2 | The relations of the European States continued to be influenced in the eighteenth century , almost as much as in the age of Louis XIV , by the idea of the balance of power . |
| 3 | Although dozens of political detainees had been released in August 1990 and in March 1991 , the report said that more than 100 political prisoners continued to be held , some " for up to seven years without ever being charged or going to trial " . |
| 4 | During these first years of operation , progress towards some of the economic goals continued to be satisfactory . |
| 5 | Latin literature continued to be copied by Christian aristocrats ; classical learning survived in the teaching available , now in episcopal households rather than public schools ; Roman art continued to adorn the walls of churches and the sides of sarcophagi . |
| 6 | German influence continued to be dominant as the discussions continued . |
| 7 | Although later works made more use of Englishmen , foreign technicians continued to be needed , and the several groups located in the Weald add up to a directory of the industry in 1524–5 . |
| 8 | Individual social mobility continued to be actively pursued , and many able individuals made the most of a rapidly changing environment and opportunities to rise above their origins , or , in some cases , to enjoy the luxury of non-conformism . |
| 9 | Foreign relations continued to be dominated by events in Indo-China . |
| 10 | However professional and manly and disciplined the stance taken on their subject matter , English academics continued to be worried by their inability to account rationally for the intrinsic value , style , spirit , and mood of the literary work . |
| 11 | On the current market situation Mr Peel noted that Old Masters continued to be the strongest area , although there had been a reduction in both size of sales and prices realised in some areas . |
| 12 | A number of wooden ships continued to be built without adequate shear bracing , however , and such ships got more leaky as they got older , until , in an age when most of the pumping was done by hand , it became uneconomic to run them any longer . |
| 13 | The chartered company continued to be regarded as the best type of organization for carrying on overseas trade , but a grant to an individual proprietor began to be seen as the best way to set up a new colony to which settlers would come to cultivate the land . |
| 14 | Again , as discussed in the Introduction , medieval towns continued to be founded until the fifteenth century . |
| 15 | By contrast with diamonds , which were too hard to be ground smooth and could only be mounted as natural crystals until medieval lapidaries had learned how to cut them , coloured transparent stones continued to be shaped by the time honoured methods originally devised for opaque stones . |
| 16 | Subtler methods of modifying endocrine balance continued to be explored . |
| 17 | Returning political refugees continued to be interrogated and charged by Turkish police [ see also p. 36565 ] . |
| 18 | This was a country where only 3% of the land could be used for agriculture but where farmers received considerable financial assistance from the government to ensure that rural communities continued to be viable . |
| 19 | Annual contracts continued to be issued until 1955 , by which time they had risen to £4.2s . |
| 20 | Similar proposals continued to be made in various forms in the second half of the century , though none was elaborated in as much detail as that of Saint-Pierre or attracted as much attention . |
| 21 | The vast majority continued to be ‘ middle peasants ’ bound together in the village commune . |
| 22 | The actual administration of the National Union was separated from Central Office in 1921 , and it appointed its own secretary thereafter ; it was a change of no great importance , for the National Union continued to work from Central Office and the Principal Agent continued to be Honorary Secretary , but it was a minor declaration of independence . |
| 23 | Madame de Lully 's principal residence continued to be the house on the rue St Anne , parish of St Roch , where she had resided with her husband , and where she died on 3 May 1720 . |
| 24 | Separate baptisteries continued to be built for many years and separate , free-standing campaniles were the general rule ; these features acted as watch towers and were symbols of local importance . |
| 25 | Their pathological hatred of the Roman church continued to be fuelled by the deeply entrenched belief that the pope was the Antichrist , a conviction that was by now accepted without question by conservative bishops and godly Puritans alike . |
| 26 | The German pacific Islands continued to be held by Japan under a League of Nations mandate . |
| 27 | The increase in flexibility may be conceded , although it should be added that it commonly only extended to the classic texts , most notably the works of Shakespeare , whose assumed centrality continued to be justified in terms both of their uniquely potent literary rhetoric , and their cultural and imaginative force within " the pool of our common experience " . |
| 28 | While the Cold War period was dominated by realism , liberal approaches continued to be developed . |
| 29 | Long-standing relations between South Yemen and socialist countries continued to be marked by visits , however , such as those of the North Korean Vice-President Yi Jong Ok on Feb. 25 , 1990 , and the Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tesfaye Dinka on March 4 . |
| 30 | The Jewish community continued to be led by the Chief Rabbi , as it had been under the Byzantine emperors . |