Example sentences of "[noun] 's [noun sg] remain [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such circumstances , even if the date of Samson 's composition remains problematised , attention shifts to the date of its first publication in 1671 . |
| 2 | Under the present Prime Minister , Ms Benazir Bhutto , relations have warmed but Pakistan 's military remains unconvinced . |
| 3 | But back to Worcestershire , where Moody got two early Championship hundreds in a summer so far restricted for him by shin and ankle-ligament problems : where the worries over Dilley 's Achilles tendon and knee wo n't go away ; where Hick 's form remains enigmatic ; where left-hander Adam Seymour , the Millfield boy who switched from Essex — at appeared an astute and logical career move for him — has so far failed to make an impact on the banks of the Severn . |
| 4 | On the basis of our experience and the conflicting findings reported we feel a ‘ typical patient ’ syndrome for Dieulafoy 's disease remains speculative . |
| 5 | At the publication of its annual report SERC chairman , Sir Mark Richmond , said that even against this financial backdrop ‘ 90 per cent of the Council 's programme remains intact … and the output has been extremely impressive ’ . |
| 6 | Alexei 's expression remained stubborn . |
| 7 | Bonar Law 's position remains enigmatic , for he promoted fusion and yet was glad to see it fail . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought I might find them laughing at poor Daddy , ’ Rose said , allowing her own shock and fear to ease out in the nervous laughter , but Maggie 's face remained pale and serious . |
| 9 | Despite his sobs , the boy 's hand remained steady . |
| 10 | To this day Devon Loch 's collapse remains one of the Turfs greatest unsolved mysteries . |
| 11 | It is interesting to note however that while Klemperer 's speeds thirty years are on far more deliberate , the rawness of Weill 's idiom remains intact . |
| 12 | The pit 's banker , the Bank of Scotland , said yesterday that the consortium 's overdraft remained frozen . |
| 13 | So the German waste handler Mannesmann insisted that the cargo 's destination remain secret , even from those responsible for it , factory owner Hoffmann-La Roche , and the Lombardy authorities . |
| 14 | Ma 's face remained blank . |
| 15 | But Michael Banks 's memory remained sacred . |
| 16 | An editorial in the Catholic Herald and Standard on 25 May — it is distributed in Ireland as The Standard — criticized the Irish bishops ' apparently low esteem of their laity 's ability to remain constant in their marriages . |
| 17 | Eliot 's work was never performed by puppets , but Cornford 's influence remained central , and a 1933 letter shows that other ideas expressed in ‘ The Beating of a Drum ’ played their part in Eliot 's concept of his play . |
| 18 | The General 's stare remained fixed on the forward screen . |
| 19 | The failure to find organisms in affected tissue with sensitive immunohistochemical methods and the variable responses of the condition to antituberculous drugs suggest that a definite role for mycobacteria in the pathogenesis of Crohn 's disease remains unproved . |
| 20 | Thus the question of which type of enteral formula diet is better in the treatment of Crohn 's disease remains open , and a study comparing polymeric diets with steroid treatment has , to our knowledge , never been performed . |
| 21 | SIR — The mechanism of abnormal copper metabolism in Wilson 's disease remains unknown . |
| 22 | But in the Sammath Naur we have force being used very strongly , in the shape of Gollum 's teeth ; yet Frodo 's mind remains unaffected . |
| 23 | Headlines in a US paper saying that the Open Software Foundation has dropped Tivoli Systems Inc 's management framework from its Distributed Management Environment are flat out wrong and creating unnecessary waves : as our sister paper Unigram.X has already said , DME 1.0 is being made fully compliant with the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker , a specification that post-dates development of both DME and the Tivoli framework and as a result a small piece of low-level code is being reworked , hardly something to write home about , and the Foundation says Tivoli 's framework remains central to the object management framework . |
| 24 | The Privy Council agreed that the presidential pardon given to the Moslems by the then acting President Emmanuelle Carter in exchange for Robinson 's release remained valid . |
| 25 | But , whether themes emerge or not , the Festival 's aim remains constant — to bring you outstanding performers in every category of our programme . |
| 26 | The relationship which identifies Louis as Martin 's brother-in-law remains unclear . |
| 27 | Although worried by the expense in powder Harry continued to open one green avenue after another , but the Collector 's window remained empty . |
| 28 | Although the concept of citizenship as a political and social status and practice has changed since then , and although the legal content has also undergone change , Marshall 's analysis remains seminal . |
| 29 | The sultanates of Muscat and Zanzibar had recently been separated by the terms of the Canning award , but Majid 's position remained insecure ; in 1859 his half-brothers Thuwayn of Muscat and Barghash , who was to succeed Majid as sultan , attempted to capture Zanzibar . |
| 30 | It was noted in 3.5 that long-term participant observation , as a consequence both of the relationship of trust which is built up and of a person 's inability to remain vigilant for long periods , has the effect of blurring the distinction between covert and overt observation . |