Example sentences of "remained the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1987 Conservative ministers boasted of their success while still claiming that the conquest of inflation remained the first objective of policy . |
| 2 | Profit remained the sole objective but the means of achieving it was transformed . |
| 3 | Glasgow was for long suspicious of ‘ the electricity ’ , and St Enoch 's Station and the General Post Office remained the sole public buildings lit by the new method until the 1890s . |
| 4 | These two , shorn to some extent of their settler and pro-Federation image , grew in circulation and , for a while , the Times of Zambia remained the sole daily paper . |
| 5 | Her will makes no mention of Minton , but it is likely that her death released the trust which her late husband had set up on behalf of the Minton children and of which John now remained the sole heir . |
| 6 | Significantly , Mubarak acknowledged that the PLO ( which had opposed Egypt 's strong pro-US stance during the Gulf War ) remained the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people . |
| 7 | The Housing of the Working Classes Act , 1890 , unified previous housing legislation and remained the principal Housing Act until the consolidating Act of 1925 . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , for many Siberian communities wood , stone and bone remained the principal materials for making tools and weapons . |
| 9 | Unless war threatened , or there was a dramatic increase in the price of petrol , the national level remained the principal focus of political attention for both public and elites . |
| 10 | This remained the principal activity in the London money market for over a hundred years , until a wave of innovation hit the market in the late 1960s . |
| 11 | National service remained the prime reason for coalition . |
| 12 | A pioneering concept in 1948 , the NHS remained the prime example of a centrally planned and funded public health service . |
| 13 | As each heat unravelled , so his time remained the fastest and the commentators became more and more excited . |
| 14 | When Coleridge first entered the village in August 1794 , it remained the economic focus of a wide surrounding territory , and struggled , in the midst of endemic rural poverty and untamed nature , to sustain its modest version of prosperous , civilized society . |
| 15 | There was little chance to look towards democracy or any political liberalisation , moreover , while the party remained the central authority . |
| 16 | Until the early 1960s ‘ free markets ’ , full employment and the maintenance of the value of sterling , remained the central aims [ Shonfield , 1959 ] . |
| 17 | Under each President the relationship between the executive and the broadcasting media remained the central issue of communications policy . |
| 18 | The election was keenly contested — both candidates spent heavily on their campaigns — but there was little evidence of the use of negative campaigning and the city 's rising crime rate remained the central campaign issue . |
| 19 | The third governor , Didius Gallus , managed to stabilize the military position , but there remained the crucial decision on the future of Wales . |
| 20 | The pioneering work of Whipple in 1945 began an era of portosystemic shunt surgery for portal hypertension which remained the primary form of treatment for nearly 30 years even though the consequences of portal diversion such as liver atrophy and encephalopathy were soon recognised . |
| 21 | The study found that in practice family members remained the primary carers , unquote . |
| 22 | But it was Cromwell who remained the arch repository of true evil in the world , Cromwell who had persecuted Ireland so greatly as to overshadow even Queen Elizabeth who , vilifying Mary Stuart , had put her to a martyr 's death . |
| 23 | Because of this , boxing remained the major sporting area for blacks right up to and beyond the World War II period , though it was not until 1948 that they were allowed to contest a British title . |
| 24 | The finest prize for the reclaimers remained the Great Level . |
| 25 | The first act of rebellion , and what remained the symbolic centre-piece of revolutionary nationalism — the Madrid rising of 2 May 1808 — was the work of ‘ low people ’ , alarming the Council of Castile as much as Murat . |
| 26 | He points out that under John Akers , IBM has built its desktop computing business to $8,500m in worldwide sales in 1991 , giving it 19% market share ; remained the worldwide leader in information technology revenues , at $62,800m last year up nearly 30% from $48,500m in 1985 when Akers took over ; and avoided the worst crisis that could have befallen it — which would have been to sacrifice investments in research and development for the sake of a fast buck — it spent $6,600m last year . |
| 27 | Certainly : yet behind that most immediate question remained the profounder one . |
| 28 | Nevertheless such changes can be seen as consistent outgrowths of earlier party positions ; the Whigs and Tories of Anne 's reign remained the recognisable heirs of their namesakes of the Exclusion Crisis . |
| 29 | The sole bulwark against fascism remained the Soviet Union . |
| 30 | The change of legal status , in which the state remained the controlling shareholder with 75 per cent of capital , meant that Renault could implement a share-swap alliance concluded in February 1990 with the Swedish vehicle manufacturer Volvo [ see also p. 37161 ] . |