Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] remain [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A certain number became war brides and in some cases war widows in 191418 , while others lost fathers , brothers and sweethearts or themselves remained unmarried . |
| 2 | In this respect , you and I remain unknowable to one another . |
| 3 | This matter was not pursued in great detail and I remained unconvinced that this defence could be made out . |
| 4 | They are primarily concerned with the use of letters rogatory , the device which had over the centuries become well-established in the practice of States , and not only those of the civil law tradition , and which remains central to the procedures for obtaining evidence from another jurisdiction . |
| 5 | Thus if the buyer goes into liquidation before fully paying for the goods , any of the goods which have not been re-sold by the buyer and which remain unmixed will belong to the seller . |
| 6 | Despite the rapid increase in the number of large-scale excavations of settlements , only three have been published ( Bell 1977 ; Millett 1983 ; West 1985 ) ; a similar problem pertains with the number of cemeteries examined since the Second World War and which remain unpublished , denying a generation of researchers the data from modern excavations . |
| 7 | Close relations were also maintained with Syria ( which concluded a friendship treaty with the USSR in 1980 ) , and with India , which signed a friendship treaty as early as 1971 and which remained one of the closest of the USSR 's non-communist allies under Indira Gandhi and her successor Rajiv . |
| 8 | the opera by Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli ( 1752–1837 ) , Giulietta e Romeo , first performed at La Scala , Milan , in 1796 , and which remained popular all over the continent for almost a century . |
| 9 | This does not involve going to Court and you remain free to remove your child at any time ( although it is best to do this by arrangement ) . |
| 10 | He can be met , really met , only in the encounter in which we finite creatures of time and history are confronted by the One who is infinite and eternal , and who remains infinite and eternal and ‘ wholly Other ’ than ourselves in that meeting . |
| 11 | But custom , who holds all things in her grip , especially the train of courtship in the Noonday of Italy , demanded that he take the initiative in wooing and she remain wordless , especially in company . |
| 12 | On the foster mother 's application under section 10(9) of the Children Act 1989 for leave to apply for residence orders under section 8 of the Act in respect of the children , no direction was made that the children 's natural mother be notified , and she remained unaware of the application until it had been determined . |
| 13 | ‘ We have always been a class-dominated nation , and we remain divisive with unacceptable inequalities and disadvantages for many families . |
| 14 | However , in general the literature on the sociology of the undergraduate curriculum is limited , and there remains much scope for further work on it in this country in terms of social selection , status and socialization . |
| 15 | And there remains double bluff . |
| 16 | Departments are established in the first place by Act of Congress and they remain subject to Congressional oversight . |
| 17 | A couple of henna-headed teenage fans are sitting with their backs to the outside wall of the club , and they remain cool when the coach arrives , politely asking everyone to sign the singles they 've brought along . |
| 18 | The young larvae , hatching from the queen 's eggs are potentially of both sexes , but the queen 's pheromones with which they are fed by the workers inhibit their development and they remain sterile , wingless and blind . |
| 19 | Boro battled well for a hard-earned point in a poor game and they remain six points behind Cambridge but with four games in hand . |
| 20 | Prince simply " took " the photographs and they remain seamless . |
| 21 | With effective teaching , they are able to achieve the attainment outcomes of listening , speaking and reading , and they remain well-motivated when the materials and methods used meet their learning needs . |
| 22 | I am glad that my hon. Friend believes that I took a wise decision over those courthouse closures and they remain open . |
| 23 | However , these ‘ social factors ’ are not subjected to the same systematic analysis as the technical ones , and they remain unconnected , irksome and somehow immovable under prevailing analytical frameworks . |
| 24 | They may twitch , move around to an apparently more comfortable position , but their eyes remain closed and they remain unresponsive . |
| 25 | But because expertise in chemistry and related sciences and technologies is often scarce in poor countries , they can not develop natural resources to their own advantage , and they remain dependent on experts from industrialised countries . |
| 26 | None of their jobs lasted long enough for them to be eligible for redundancy pay and they remained unprotected by employment protection legislation . |
| 27 | There was , however , no inclination on the part of the Maltese to take a more adventurous approach even after going behind and they remained keen to foil the kind of movement off the ball being displayed by Jess , eagerly starting an international for the first time . |
| 28 | Sir John said the pace of recovery was likely to be slow and they remained cautious about the current year , with slow but steady recovery not being seen until 1994 . |
| 29 | Those ministers were chosen by the king on the basis of his personal confidence in them , and they remained responsible to him . |
| 30 | Steve also reads voraciously , usually on expeditions , and he remains obsessive about his favourite work , Herman Melville 's Moby Dick . |