Example sentences of "remain [adv] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zambia smiled warmly , lovingly , encouragingly , remaining utterly silent so as not to frighten him off . |
| 2 | In short , the CD3 is a solid and meaty sounding deck , verging at times to rich in balance , yet remaining tonally close enough to neutral to avoid censure on the grounds of lack of tonal realism . |
| 3 | And if a work as trite , foolish and offensive to women as Now , Voyager should , after 40 years , remain as watchable today as on its initial release , when equally feeble plays and novels from the same period have vanished into a limbo of neglect from which they can never be retrieved , it is a tribute less to the very questionable ‘ artistry ’ of its writer and director than to the enduring fascination of its leading actress . |
| 4 | These after all were stated in the original RAWP 's terms of reference and remain as valid now as they were in 1975 . |
| 5 | Mushy peas are believed to have originated in the North and remain as popular today as they have ever been . |
| 6 | While the figures for individual firms fluctuate from year to year ( reflecting to some extent the ownership of the biggest hits in each year ) , the aggregate market share of the five biggest companies has remained remarkably constant over twelve years , at just under two-thirds . |
| 7 | Ways of organising struggles that were appropriate to a phase of economic growth and full employment must now be reviewed and revised ; although the scope and diversity of trade union education have remained admirably broad even under the impact of the crisis , defence of past achievements must as ever be supported by an appraisal of shortcomings and deficiencies . |
| 8 | Although Durkheim remains less well-known popularly than Marx , his ideas have exerted a greater formative influence in the development of anthropological ( and sociological ) theory . |
| 9 | It is in this context that even the barest skeleton of a common vocabulary that captures the different forms of urban life may be welcomed and it is in this search for cogent communication that the notion of the inner city , so commonly discredited analytically , remains so powerful descriptively . |
| 10 | The phenomenon remains extremely rare today in Arnhem Land and the Central Desert , where groups still live more or less traditional lifestyles . |
| 11 | It remains highly appropriate therefore to assess the impact on the British economy of fixing its currency to those of the other countries of the EEC . |
| 12 | It remains highly questionable why such a sensational and unrealistic play should be thought worthy of attention in the first place , but this is perhaps indicative of attitudes within the theatre that mental handicap is a good basis for plays written by writers who have no understanding of mental handicap but view it as a subject of horror around which some dramatic scenario can be created . |
| 13 | … reader instruction as at present interpreted remains largely instructional rather than educational , and emphasizes the value of the library as a storehouse of knowledge rather than a storehouse of wisdom and understanding . |
| 14 | In consequence , police ethnography remains largely unwritten simply because it is unlikely the organization will be keen to reveal the ways this ‘ immense disorder ’ is constructed , for it is not in their nature to allow other individuals to create their classifications for them . |
| 15 | Theirs is sometimes a robust way with Mozart , but it remains pleasantly flexible both tonally and rhythmically , and in the first work of all ( K19 d ) they show the kind of skill that unfussily makes the natural-sounding best of the conventional material written by a boy of nine on his London visit . |
| 16 | Much of the detail contained in this chapter remains as true now as when it was written . |
| 17 | We are committed to ensuring that this reputation remains as sound tomorrow as it is today . |
| 18 | The gas composition remains relatively constant up to 1–1.5% reflectance , and then increases as the gas becomes drier . |
| 19 | Some other copies have emerged since , but it remains very scarce indeed . |
| 20 | Most commentators agree that the rapid price acceleration played an important role in generating high inflationary expectations , which remained remarkably resilient even under later conditions of mass unemployment . |
| 21 | There is considerable evidence to suggest that Catholic devotional practices remained extremely popular right up until the time they were banned , and there can be little doubt that , following their suppression , many lay people initially felt an acute sense of loss and found the new Protestant liturgy an uncongenial and inadequate substitute for their traditional customs and beliefs . |
| 22 | The two sides remained as far apart on the German problem as ever , however , and there was actually no threat the Soviets could make , short of military action , which could force concessions . |
| 23 | Moreover it was not an under-used white elephant in the manner of Kingmoor yard in Carlisle ; traffic levels remained comparatively healthy right up to the end . |
| 24 | It will be seen that the dollar value of exports more than doubled between 1977 and 1981 , but remained fairly stable thereafter , at least until 1986 . |
| 25 | The number of kin living together rose during the early industrial period ( up to the middle of the nineteenth century ) and remained fairly constant thereafter . |
| 26 | Within this the commodity composition showed a marked increase in engineering products which rose from 37 per cent in 1955 to 45 per cent in 1970 of total UK exports ; semi-manufactures ( including chemicals , textiles and metals ) fell from 30 per cent to 26 per cent because of the decline in textiles , while other manufactures remained fairly constant around 13 per cent and non-manufactures fell from 25 per cent to 15 per cent . |
| 27 | Despite the recent legalization of homosexuality between consenting adults , in private , gay politics and gay life-style remained resolutely unnoticed even within the underground press — a silence only broken by the occasional tabloid expose . |
| 28 | Designs resulting largely from trial and error remained virtually unchanged over 200 years . |
| 29 | But Sir Lawrie remained irrepressibly optimistic yesterday . |
| 30 | Some low-paid groups , such as agricultural workers , succeeded for the first time in establishing permanent unions although they remained relatively low-paid up to and beyond 1914 . |