Example sentences of "remained the [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As each heat unravelled , so his time remained the fastest and the commentators became more and more excited . |
| 2 | Neither side had " won " ; the status of Berlin remained the same but it was a city now starkly divided . |
| 3 | Mrs Smith was a wild boar too , yet it was quite easy to differentiate them , as their expressions and personalities remained the same and Mr Smith regarded me kindly with little red eyes through the specs on the end of his snout . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Our enthusiasm for getting afloat was an overriding factor — that part of the job remained the same and made up for a lot of hassle . |
| 6 | At a meeting with the ASEAN Foreign Ministers in Indonesia on July 27 Baker attempted to allay their fears , informing them that the US goals in Cambodia remained the same and that " our approach towards achieving them differs only very slightly " . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | This narrow Restoration orthodoxy remained the doctrinal and liturgical basis of the Anglican church for the next half-century , and the many hundreds of men and women who were unable to accept it were forced to leave the established church and join the ranks of the nonconformists . |
| 9 | The image projected was consistently conservative ; to the end of the dynasty , the kings remained the pious and holy defenders of Mother Church , the preservers of the kingdom 's integrity , the faithful battlers against local tyrants . |