Example sentences of "remain [prep] the same " in BNC.

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1 If it is not permissible to take into account what was said by the Financial Secretary , I remain of the same view .
2 For in such a state by far the most important conditions of production and consumption , of exchange and distribution will remain of the same quality , and in the same general relations to one another , though they are all increasing in volume .
3 Remaining in the same position , cross your ankles and , using the strength from the legs to work against themselves , attempt to pull the legs apart .
4 So far , we have mostly considered the use of fourth chords in situations where only one vertical chord is built of perfect fourths superimposed , each note remaining in the same register .
5 Only eight out of 26 ministers retained their posts in a new Cabinet announced on July 19 ; key ministries remaining in the same hands included Defence under Maj.-Gen.
6 The important aspect of the relative clause proposal seems to be that both relative clause and postnominal adjective share the characteristics of linking an adjective to its head noun by the relation of assignment , not simple qualification , while remaining within the same entity-identifying phrase as that noun .
7 Company commitment and the willingness to remain with the same firm for long periods may therefore be underpinned by the prospect of heavy sacrifices that accompany the alternatives .
8 Members of an existing scheme prior to these dates who remain with the same employer should not be adversely affected by the change .
9 And this had implications for their motion : Because God is immutable , the bodies He created would remain in the same condition unless they were subject to external causes .
10 There are relatively few territorial sites , which the strongest male ruffs occupy ; these sites , called leks , tend to remain in the same place every year .
11 Maintaining initial capital intact would be useless if you wanted to remain in the same business .
12 Claudia felt as if she were running hard to remain in the same place .
13 Perhaps even more valuable are those servicemen and servicewomen who are sufficiently secure , motivated , well paid and content to remain in the same job for fifteen , twenty or thirty years , providing a continuity of local knowledge that is invaluable to those who come to rely upon them .
14 Gould would have been happy to remain in the same spot if it would continue providing him with novelties .
15 It should not be assumed from these statements that they do not move at all-they can be quite active at high tide by night but that they remain within the same general area of shore .
16 Today most of the cutlery works remain in the same part of modern Sheffield .
17 Most Danish pupils remain in the same class group for all subjects for all nine or 10 years of their primary and lower secondary education … .
18 Consider a cube which is disassembled into its pieces and imagine reassembling the pieces so that the outside facelets remain outside and the centres remain in the same relative positions .
19 Remain in the same position and , keeping the top leg straight , flex the foot .
20 And even if you remain in the same location , you could still feel unsettled .
21 Members of an established company scheme at the time of the 1989 Budget , who remain in the same scheme — or who change schemes within the same group of associated employers — are not affected by the change .
22 More generally on durability , it seems that the requirement that the goods be of merchantable quality is a continuing requirement that they will continue to be of merchantable quality for a reasonable period after delivery so long as they remain in the same apparent state as that in which they were delivered , apart from normal wear and tear .
23 In Lambert v. Lewis ( 1981 H.L. ) Lord Diplock said that the condition of fitness for purpose was a continuing obligation ‘ that the goods will continue to be fit for that purpose for a reasonable time after delivery , so long as they remain in the same apparent state and condition as that in which they were delivered , apart from normal wear and tear . ’
24 Hitherto , although the structure of the motion has become increasingly complex , the time scale of the velocity fluctuations has remained of the same order as the period of the initial wave .
25 Nicholas Edwards at the Welsh Office , George Younger at the Scottish Office , and Mrs Thatcher herself had remained in the same posts since May 1979 .
26 With Lord Hailsham 's retirement as Lord Chancellor in 1988 , Mrs Thatcher alone had remained in the same post and only Peter Walker , George Younger , and Sir Geoffrey Howe had been in the Cabinet continuously .
27 A portrait of a child by Luis Paret y Alcazar ( 1746–1799 ) which has remained in the same family since it was painted is expected to sell for more than Pta40 million ( £220,000 ; $429,000 ) .
28 Many of the tenants buying would have remained in the same houses , so there would not have been ‘ voids ’ for allocation in any case .
29 Now as the garage grew , the , the blacksmith 's shop was , it still remained in the same place but the remainder of the cottages were made into the garage , and the garden ground in between was filled in between with sheds with corrugated iron roofs .
30 Its site has not altered and the chancel arch ( the division between the parishioners ' area [ the nave ] and the rector 's area [ the chancel ] ) has remained in the same position for 1000 years or more , notwithstanding additions , alterations , and demolitions .
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