Example sentences of "remain the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the far greater sophistication ( and cost to users ) of RDS , Carfax appears to remain the superior approach , permitting local traffic announcements to be made as soon as information is available to broadcasters . |
| 2 | But there is better news for the gloomies who thought that the North was destined forever to remain the hunting ground of wealthy southerners . |
| 3 | They meant to build up their own industries behind their tariff barriers , and not to remain the permanent primary producers for the industrial United Kingdom ; and when Chamberlain once incautiously disclosed this logical implication of his policy , he was forced to beat an instant retreat . |
| 4 | Natural gas as a replacement for coal is important , too , but coal is cheap and plentiful and likely to remain the principal fuel of China , potentially the world 's biggest producer of carbon dioxide ( and other pollutants , too ) . |
| 5 | The 795-page catalogue is worth the journey to Venice by itself , and is likely to remain the layman 's definitive Celtic history book for some time to come . |
| 6 | EC grain traders say consumption is unlikely to rise , and the amount sold on the export market is also likely to remain the same . |
| 7 | The judiciary looks set to remain the preserve of elderly , slightly unworldly men whose cast of mind is rooted in the aspirations about which Tawney had been so glowing . |
| 8 | Outwardly much appeared to remain the same . |
| 9 | Essex , whose young players to watch are Mark Ilott and Nick Knight , defend their Britannic Assurance title hoping , as usual , that Neil Foster 's knees will allow him to remain the country 's best bowler . |
| 10 | This immediately implied that the developmental role was , at least initially , to be quite distinct from routine casework support for clients and carers ( which was to remain the responsibility of generic area teams ) . |
| 11 | Despite any explanations he might offer her , he had to remain the enemy . |
| 12 | The northern fens were to remain the preserve of fishers and fowlers for another 150 years . |
| 13 | This would allow high-octane petrol to remain the staple of British garage forecourts . |
| 14 | Only voice telephony was excluded from the group 's brief because this is to remain the monopoly of British Telecom . |
| 15 | Alexander once said that people want to change and yet still want to remain the same . |
| 16 | They would pass into the hands of number of different owners over the years , but Charles Titford was to remain the occupier until his death in 1802 . |
| 17 | Sarah 's sister Mary was to remain the spinster of the family , but seems to have been equally comfortably-off ; when times were hard and shops were perpetually falling vacant through lack of trade in the 1820s , Mary dodged around from one location to another like an enterprising little businesswoman . |
| 18 | Dej and his colleagues did not want to remain the poor peasant cousins of the other Communist states which were going off along the high road to communism . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Although an earlier check with the weather office predicted a favourable wind for that evening , it did not materialize and conditions were to remain the same the following day when only one Spitfire was delivered by F/C Heering who had flown direct from Brize Norton . |
| 21 | This was the most fundamental fact about the movies in Britain and America and it was to remain the most important fact throughout the great years of the cinema 's hegemony . |
| 22 | inherited from Byzantium. was to remain the royal emblem until the fall of the monarchy . |
| 23 | The state was therefore , he argued , unlikely to remain the dominant unit of international society for the future . |
| 24 | For various reasons it has proved impractical to find or create any alternative access to the port and that is likely to remain the position at least until the third Medway crossing and northern link road project comes to pass . |
| 25 | He was determined to remain the seaman 's champion . |
| 26 | Assuming that the organ is likely to remain the most common instrument for worship , the Commission urges parishes and dioceses to set up schemes to encourage people to learn the organ . |
| 27 | This creates a kink in the firm 's perceived demand curve at its current price-output pair ( the levels of which are , however , unexplained ) which then tends to remain the same despite changes in marginal cost , because of a discontinuity in the firm 's marginal revenue at the kink . |
| 28 | Where an employer is the victim of industrial action his primary purpose in embarking on litigation is usually ( and this is likely to remain the case notwithstanding the extension of tort liability to trade unions ) to get an injunction . |
| 29 | Since then , unlike the Shah , he has managed to remain the spiritual leader of his people . |
| 30 | Yet Jerusalem managed to remain the centre of Jewish religion . |