Example sentences of "[noun sg] remains a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Media Training leading to the development of media talent in the advertising industry remains a high priority for Express in 1992 . |
| 2 | Hazlitt remains a baffling man . |
| 3 | Since fusion , courts have been able to administer both law and equity but the distinction between , on the one hand , the costs to be allowed to a successful mortgagee/litigant and , on the other hand , the costs that should be allowed to a mortgagee on the taking of an account in a redemption or foreclosure action remains a real one . |
| 4 | Surridge 's five in succession remains a unique achievement . |
| 5 | Nevertheless judicial review remains an important process for curing illegality . |
| 6 | The maintaining of the male ego in perfect condition remains an essential activity of the nuclear family . |
| 7 | Despite government ‘ triumphs ’ like the newly agreed EC-wide minimum rate for VAT , true VAT harmonisation remains a political pipe-dream . |
| 8 | Despite the advances made by several clubs and in spite of the tireless education advice offered by the Scottish Professional Footballers Association , football remains an attractive place for the walking wounded . |
| 9 | The influence of the semiotic model within psychoanalysis is important but , as we shall see , it is often incorporated into sexual difference theory in a form which manages to exclude what the model is especially sensitive to , namely the way oppositions which constitute meaning are fundamentally binary , yet can not ultimately be contained in and by binary closure even as , in practice , the binary remains a fundamental principle of social and psychic ordering . |
| 10 | Thus the question remains an open one , and it can hardly be said that the hotel proprietor had put his property to any special or unusually sensitive use . |
| 11 | Reporting a rape remains a strenuous and harrowing experience , however , and it is likely to continue as an underreported offence . |
| 12 | Either way , the issue remains an important component of any Israeli-Syrian settlement . |
| 13 | Although its founder , Karl-Ernst Jöllenbeck died in 1991 , the gallery remains a vital force under the directorship of Michael Nickel . |
| 14 | Manslaughter remains a catch-all offence . |
| 15 | 1 Samuel 4 renews the story of the conflict between the two peoples , and that rivalry remains a major feature of the account of Saul 's reign , and does not come to an end till victories won by David , described in 2 Samuel 5 . |
| 16 | The Queen remains a remote figure , glacial and impenetrable except when caught by the press cameras watching one of her horses winning at the races . |
| 17 | Whether this is out of personal preference or a sense of obligatory requirement remains an intriguing and much debated question . |
| 18 | In his study of poverty in the United Kingdom , Townsend ( 1979 ) argued that the mechanism of inheritance remains an important vehicle for ensuring that the wealthier groups in society maintain their economic position across generations . |
| 19 | For all the criticisms which can be levelled against it , the work remains a successful attempt to make sense of the complicated relationship which existed between England and France over a period of more than a century at the end of the Middle Ages . |
| 20 | While the situation in the south remains a major concern , greater violations of human rights are now occurring in the North and Eastern provinces of the island , where government security forces are engaged in a full-scale civil war with elements of the Tamil-minority population . |
| 21 | If the monetary authorities of modern consumer societies have had to replace gold by paper in the course of inflation , they are still constrained at moments of crisis to shift ingots of gold from one bank to another , and the price of gold bullion on the exchange remains a sensitive index of confidence in the international market . |
| 22 | If past experience is a reliable guide , there will be no shortage of similarly bold attempts to transform the findings of workers in linguistics and psychology into classroom action , and to ensure that the concept of readability remains a useful one . |
| 23 | The lineout remains a big headache , although Drikus Hattingh has won good ball at the front and No 8 Adriaan Richter has blossomed as the tour has unfolded . |
| 24 | The House of Lords did not grant leave to appeal , the point remains a difficult and important one but the Act may have clarified the point , at least where the scuffle is an ongoing one . |
| 25 | But the record shop remains a great place to do a large part of your Christmas shopping , and with a little imagination you can find great gifts without resorting to the obvious Greatest Hits albums or the record token cop-out . |
| 26 | And reassurance is what it comes down to : security remains a national responsibility . |
| 27 | Rasmussen ( 1982:3 ) asks the question ‘ … that might be raised today … is why erosion remains a severe problem after forty-five years of cooperative efforts by farmers and the federal government to solve it ’ . |
| 28 | Despite these modifications , syntactic ambiguity remains a large problem for generative systems . |
| 29 | For the time being , the Phaistos Disc remains an unsolved mystery . |
| 30 | However many of the allegedly doubtful species have more recently been re-recorded , and the work of Heslop Harrison and his team remains a major contribution which can not be ignored by any serious student of the Outer Hebridean flora . |