Example sentences of "[noun pl] remain the same " in BNC.
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| 31 | Our data were subject to several constraints : a far lower response rate from probation officers in the second survey ; the effects of changes in agency policies and practices during the two survey years ( e.g. medics ' notifying practices , police detection efforts/successes ) ; the ‘ loss ’ of some users identified in the first survey , and of some new users , to institutions and agencies not covered by the research ( e.g. custody , rehabilitation units , drug agencies in adjacent areas ) ; disillusionment with some agencies among heroin users ( particularly medical services ) , which may have produced a higher ratio of unknown to known users than in the previous year ; the optimistic assumption of 20 per cent annual outcidence-for instance , one review of follow-up studies of opioid users suggests that outcidence after one year is typically around 10 per cent , and may only reach 40–50 per cent after ten years , even for those who have received ‘ treatment ’ ( Home Office 1986 , ch. 7 ) ; and the decline in the size of the youth population , due largely to the drop in the birth rate during the 1960s-that is , the absolute number of known heroin users could decrease while the rate per 1,000 youths remained the same or even increased ( the population figures from which our prevalence rates were calculated derived from 1981 Census statistics , and do not take into account projected trends ) . |
| 32 | The proportions remain the same both Haydn-Niemecz and Mozart-Czerny increase from slowest to fastest by a factor of two , and there is no getting around the fact that both pieces of information describe a considerable range for minuet tempos including quite fast Allegrettos . |
| 33 | The mortgage rates may fluctuate , but the administration and the repayments remain the same until the time comes to adjust . |
| 34 | 5.2 The original philosophy of the modules remains the same : the learning and teaching approaches should be student-centred , participative , integrated and where possible practical . |
| 35 | The system for returns remains the same , with requests to return authorised by the various publishers ' reps . |
| 36 | My clothes remain the same . |
| 37 | Look for the enclosed green Wallet now ! ’ and four free opportunities to win prizes , which must irritate those who can see that if everybody gets four opportunities the odds remain the same . |
| 38 | The basic principle and benefits remain the same . |
| 39 | Thus for example , the proportion of total social service department expenditure upon elderly people increased from 38.1 to 45 per cent between 1973 to 1979 but the percentage of expenditure on community services remained the same and continued to be so into the mid 1980s ( Parker , 1990 ) . |
| 40 | It was soon realised , however , that the national bourgeoisie was too weak to pursue an independent line and being themselves involved in the complexities of dependent development , their orientations remained the same as the rest of the dominant class . |
| 41 | Some of these developed into villages , others remained the same , yet others disappeared or shrank to farmsteads or even smaller hamlets . |
| 42 | The instrument of war was the national State and it mattered little whether that State was called the beachhead of a world working class or simply an ordinary republic : the disciplines remained the same . |
| 43 | You shake a sheaf of poems in the face of killers ; you do paintings with Uncle Sam as an anaconda ; and writers talk of five centuries of resistance to oppressors who may change-colonists , missionaries , generals , coke bosses-but whose victims remain the same . |
| 44 | The ultimate victims remain the same . ’ |
| 45 | Our intentions remain the same : |
| 46 | But the underlying functional relations between the four parts remain the same . |
| 47 | The thresholds for small companies are increased to not more than £2.8m for turnover and not more than £1.4m for the balance sheet total , although the number of employees remains the same at an average of 50 . |
| 48 | While compassion and concern were hallmarks of the churches ' approach to the victims of HIV and AIDS , he went on , the central message of the churches remained the same . |