Example sentences of "remain [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Giscard d'Estaing had already warned the Palace about the Romanians ' insatiable pilfering during their recent stay in France , but Palace officials remain discreet about any misdemeanours during the Ceauşescus ' visit . ) |
| 2 | A fundamental difficulty will always remain that of substantiating the complaint . |
| 3 | She was a warm-hearted , affectionate person and I shall always remain grateful to her . |
| 4 | While the penalties for water pollution offences are in theory more severe than most field staff believe them to be , they remain frail in comparison with those available to sanction traditional crime . ’ |
| 5 | Xerox Corp , figures , page five , says it expects the European economy to remain weak for the rest of the year , but Xerox forecasts ‘ some encouraging signs of recovery ’ in Japan for the remainder of 1993 ; the plan to leave the financial services business remains on track but it might take several years . |
| 6 | Only one fertile Genestealer needed to remain alive in hiding to undo all the good work within a few decades . |
| 7 | So I resolved to remain alive in an unofficial capacity , which of course annoys them all immensely . |
| 8 | Bayfield says the US business can remain profitable at lower volumes because it now has a reduced cost base . |
| 9 | Some small-scale surveys suggest that some young girls do indeed become or remain pregnant with this in mind , but the impact at the national level is not known ( see Murphy 1989 ) . |
| 10 | These remain unused for the entire time that the child is in nappies . |
| 11 | Both results are , of course , consistent with the competitive nature of commercial activity and can not , it is submitted , realistically be avoided if a measure of justice is to be accorded to the inventor whose endeavours remain unused by the employer . |
| 12 | Be patient and remain strong in the knowledge that the universe knows what 's best for you . |
| 13 | In natural fibre-rich foods the taste-evoking substances appear to remain intact within the cell walls which have not been stripped away by refining processes . |
| 14 | The intermediary in the deal was Christoph Graf Douglas , head of Sotheby 's Germany , who pleaded strongly for the collection to remain intact in Germany . |
| 15 | ‘ While some institutions have made public share investments in hotel companies , the property departments remain shy of hotels , ’ she said . |
| 16 | 26 April : The Mail on Sunday comments on the calculation that the cosmos will remain habitable for 10 to the power of 76 years . |
| 17 | Therefore in the families with only one known affected subject , where samples can not be obtained from enough family members for linkage studies , or in the 20% or so that remain uninformative with the current probes , no predictive DNA tests are available . |
| 18 | Budapest also remain apprehensive about the nature of Romania 's future political parties , and particularly those of the National Christian Peasant Party , which was recently formed with the help of Mrs Doina Cornea , one of Romania 's leading former dissidents . |
| 19 | Some children remain dry for years , then relapse after coming under stress . |
| 20 | Desmopressin , 20–40 mg nightly intranasally is effective during treatment in 12% to 70% of cases ; only up to 31% remain dry after the course of treatment . |
| 21 | Now that hope will have been taken from her , leaving her feeling that they have unfinished business , which ( unless she believes in life after death ) will remain unfinished for ever . |
| 22 | These different versions of foundationalism remain unharmed by the absence of infallibility . |
| 23 | As long as fluid intake remains adequate to compensate for ensuing polyuria the blood volume will remain expanded with resultant elevation of cardiac output and thus blood pressure . |
| 24 | Microvitec Plc , Bradford told the annual meeting that trading in the first three months of 1993 ran ahead of budget : the firm 's chairman , James Bailey , said ‘ we remain profitable throughout the group , and we look forward to a successful outcome to the current year . ’ |
| 25 | As he and Chancellor Norman Lamont remain deaf to the pleas of the small businessmen , the Government 's policies are hurting all right . |
| 26 | Unemployment in the OECD countries was expected to remain stable at an average of 6.5 per cent in 1990 despite a slowdown in growth . |
| 27 | Any scheme which attempts to remain stable over an extended time period will in some sense be a compromise . |
| 28 | Details of symptoms and endoscopic aspects of the stomach in this type of lymphoma , however , remain scarce in the published reports , and the best treatment has not yet been established . |
| 29 | As a party , the Republicans , in electoral terms , remain weak below the presidential level and Reagan 's victory in 1980 can now be seen as largely a personal rather than an ideological or party triumph . |
| 30 | The workforce reduction and other actions will result in a one-time charge of $40m to be taken against the fourth quarter figures , but Cray expects to remain profitable for the year , and sees higher profitability as a result of the measures next year . |