Example sentences of "[verb] remain the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dej and his colleagues did not want to remain the poor peasant cousins of the other Communist states which were going off along the high road to communism . |
| 2 | Alexander once said that people want to change and yet still want to remain the same . |
| 3 | However , with the post of president strengthened under the new constitution , Kaysone was expected to remain the dominant force in Lao politics . |
| 4 | a share which pays an annual dividend of 30p which is expected to remain the same for the foreseeable future . |
| 5 | It has remained the accepted practice that all important governmental decisions emanate from the central departments in Whitehall , a practice which is of great help to the political leadership as it collects all the levers of policy-making and administrative control into one , compact , signal box . |
| 6 | At least until recently , however , France has remained the principal external influence on postmodernist fiction in Britain . |
| 7 | It rapidly became a staple , and has remained the major crop throughout the modern period . |
| 8 | Progress since then has been slow but the principle has remained the same . |
| 9 | Although the range of work of the tribunal unit has grown , the size of the original team of three full-time caseworkers and two administrative assistants has remained the same . |
| 10 | The planners ' central analysis has remained the same throughout the controversy . |
| 11 | But since 1987 the message has remained the same : ‘ Drinking and driving wrecks lives . ’ |
| 12 | Whilst the form and degree of criticism has changed over the twentieth century , in essence it has remained the same , with similar international contrasts being drawn . |
| 13 | There is a sense in which this task has remained the same since libraries began ( clay tablets were gathered into organized collections in Mesopotamia at least as early as 2700 BC ) but modern librarianship properly dates from the nineteenth century , from Panizzi 's reign at the British Museum , from the spread of the public library movement in Britain , the USA and Scandinavia , and from the new techniques initiated by such creative geniuses ( in their day ) as Melvil Dewey and Charles Amni Cutter . |
| 14 | Since there has been no important relaxation of the qualifying conditions over the years , it is more than likely that social class access to benefit has remained the same . |
| 15 | ‘ I only get tax relief on the first £30,000 , so that has remained the same . |
| 16 | The flat fee , which has remained the same since the company was set up over three years ago , has proved to be a winner with both buyers and sellers . |
| 17 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 18 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 19 | One in four men in this country has been a scout , but the camp site image has remained the same ; despite the fact that the short trousers and wide hats went out 20 years ago . |
| 20 | Notice here that although demand has risen from year 2 to year 3 , net investment has remained the same . |
| 21 | The island is seen as a microcosm of the world and this is part of Golding 's style that has remained the same throughout the book . |
| 22 | This idea that parents have equal responsibilities towards their children has remained the dominant one in the twentieth century , as is evidenced by the contemporary research data on inheritance which I discussed in chapter 1 . |
| 23 | This scheme was first transposed into carpets in the 16th century , and has remained the dominant feature of Persian compositions ever since . |
| 24 | Since the Newbolt Report is the first , and indeed has remained the single most comprehensive official report on English , there has been a tendency to use it as the key to the most fundamental ideological impulses of the discipline . |
| 25 | Birmingham is less attractive because it has remained the commercial centre of the Midlands . |
| 26 | This is so far from the truth that on the whole , for those really attending to education , the notion of innate given individuality has remained the stronger . |
| 27 | According to this report , privity of contract has remained the main obstacle to the modernization of English bill of lading law . |
| 28 | The puzzling thing was that if the intensity of the light was reduced , the number of particles emitted diminished , but the speed with which each particle was emitted remained the same . |
| 29 | There may be a redundancy even when your company 's requirements for work of a particular kind to be done remain the same . |
| 30 | Maybe the fact that she 'd remained the only one had rankled with him too . |