Example sentences of "remains a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remains a bystander on the edge of God 's purposes , and one who has suffered grievously that those purposes might go forward . |
| 2 | Unless Ben remains a computer freak — he has his father 's appreciation of the mathematics , the square lines , the patterning out of existence ; unless Sophie fails to lose a little of her egoism — or unless Hugo objects to their visits . |
| 3 | Deep down , Gould remains a conservative on constitutional matters , which is why Robin Cook is backing Smith with an easy conscience . |
| 4 | Despite a slight rise in his approval rating during the campaign , he remains a liability . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're suggesting that our son remains a bastard ? ’ |
| 6 | In short compass , it was held that someone who by reference to purely biological criteria is undoubtedly of the male sex at birth remains a male , notwithstanding a diagnosis of transsexualism , medical and surgical intervention to alter external sexual characteristics , and adoption of a female role or gender identity . |
| 7 | For comfort , the coat was given a distinct curve into the waist — a feature which remains a trademark of all English jackets . |
| 8 | Maybe CD REVIEW 'S readers are already sufficiently knowledgeable , but then there remains a principle , and a matter of courtesy . |
| 9 | This remains a principle of good practice to be followed today as it is always open to the court to find the case proved on evidence adduced by the guardian despite the local authority 's desire to withdraw proceedings . |
| 10 | The empirical evidence may destroy the reformative aim as a plausible general justification of the penal system , but reform remains a reductivist aim which it may well be right to pursue within a penal system . |
| 11 | DEC still holds a minority equity position in the company , which is staffed by ex-DEC employees , and remains a customer of its multichip modules . |
| 12 | Because language remains a problem , many Vietnamese have become technicians or engineers . |
| 13 | What remains a problem is to explain why exposure to the context alone given after exposure to the stimulus can be quite without influence on the magnitude of latent inhibition ( Hall and Minor 1984 ) and why pre-exposure to the context should actually enhance the magnitude of the effect ( Hall and Channell 1985c ) . |
| 14 | Although visibility remains a problem I really do think this repositioning is an important step forward . |
| 15 | But the political cost of displacing labour remains a problem . |
| 16 | The assessment of practical subjects and their funding remains a problem , but the negative attitudes towards Agriculture , which I remember so clearly in the years just preceding and just after independence in the countries where I worked and travelled , seems virtually dead . |
| 17 | This was to be a problem which plagued the Soviet government throughout the 1920s and even today remains a problem of the first magnitude . |
| 18 | Despite falling prices an HDTV set still costs a lot of yen ( the equivalent of thousands of pounds ) and although other wide-screen TVs offer a variety of less expensive alternatives , size remains a problem . |
| 19 | As we shall see , however , when we review that research in the next chapter , there remains a problem of interpretation and evaluation . |
| 20 | Example 4 still remains a problem , but it may be that books could be suggested as more likely than boots from semantic co-occurrence information , or from frequency of use from a corpus ( books is five times more likely to occur than boots ) , especially if weighted from a count of occurrence in the script recognised so far . |
| 21 | At present there is no evidence for IP 3 Rs on the inner nuclear membrane , so the function of any InsP 3 that might be generated in the nucleus remains a problem . |
| 22 | anyway erm and if P D er , remains a problem , or is n't gon na be addressed as far as the changes |
| 23 | But as we shall see in Chapter 6 more flexible planning policies are required if the low-wage rural economy is to be alleviated and rural depopulation to be assuaged in those areas where it remains a problem . |
| 24 | Funding themselves through training remains a problem for many students , given the virtual demise of discretionary grants . |
| 25 | The figures are bang in line with City expectations but still show Britain 's trade gap remains a problem for the government . |
| 26 | The figures are bang in line with City expectations but still show Britain 's trade gap remains a problem for the Government . |
| 27 | However , uncollected poll tax remains a problem for the town hall . |
| 28 | The Arab states have made it clear to Mr Christopher that the mass deportation remains a problem . |
| 29 | Americas Watch , a well-informed group based in Washington , says ‘ the military remains a law unto itself ’ . |
| 30 | War remains a fearsome possibility , since Cambodia remains a country with too many soldiers , bearing too many guns . |