Example sentences of "[vb past] remain the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some things needed to change , but some needed to remain the same and I usually found myself in this place pulling at the forces of change as a child might pull at the reins of a runaway horse . |
| 2 | Almost all the new councils soon had chief executives instead of town clerks — even if the person employed remained the same . |
| 3 | Outwardly much appeared to remain the same . |
| 4 | Numbers are very small , and of course tabular data are only an extremely crude summary of a very complex range of feelings ; however ( excluding those whose attitudes were not known or impossible to summarise ) , it appears that three carers in the action samples felt the strain had lightened , four that it had remained the same and five that it had worsened . |
| 5 | In the control samples no one said the strain had lightened , five that it had remained the same , and six that it had worsened . |
| 6 | And how would we know the colour had remained the same in the intervening years ? ) |
| 7 | ( If overall expenditure had remained the same in real terms , a fall in pupil numbers of 17% would have led to a rise in unit costs of 20% ) ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 11.10 ) . |
| 8 | The Leader of the Opposition simply pointed out in an article that he wrote just before the party conference that the proportion of gross domestic product — national income — devoted to education since 1979 had dropped , and that if it had remained the same , the difference would be the figure to which the hon. Gentleman has referred . |