Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] remain the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civic Forum remained the most popular organization , although its share of the vote fell to 36 per cent , compared with 49.5 per cent in the June Czech National Council election . |
| 2 | Early defibrillation remains the most important determinant of survival in cardiac arrest victims . |
| 3 | Stiffer materials such as swansdown and cashmere were replacing silk , whilst flannel and stiffened cotton remained the more popular lines . |
| 4 | Genetic experimentation remains the most popular theory , but though Hopkins has plenty of wild stories about artificial insemination , or half-breed alien/human babies already in existence ( all strictly off the record of course ) all he 's prepared to say is that things are coming out into the open . |
| 5 | To publish critical anthologies is to court redundancy , but the Kael corpus endures : fast , funny and incisive , her distinctive style remains the most influential , and her opinions the most quoted of any reviewer . |
| 6 | The hovering presence of Ford and General Motors remained the most significant influence . |
| 7 | Whilst the Electoral Register remains the most reliable means of confirming the name and address of a credit applicant , tens of thousands of names have disappeared from the Register in the last year . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , while Khrushchev , Brezhnev and their successors as general secretary of the Communist Party remained the most prominent figures in the Soviet political process , clearly they did not dominate the Politburo as Stalin did — they had to carry their colleagues with them . |
| 9 | But for the vast majority of people — particularly in rural areas — indigenous language remains the most potent expression of their aspirations . |
| 10 | Table 2.11 shows that inability to find a permanent job remained the most frequent reason given by young people for taking temporary work . |
| 11 | The most prominent orienting devices remain the symbolically defined frames of reference of social roles , which are integrated by the constant process of the individual 's or the group 's construction of his own identity in the context of the world as he or they know it . |
| 12 | All consumers were urged to ‘ switch off at the peak ’ and in periods of severe difficulties moral suasion was backed up by statutory controls , though for small consumers these were practically impossible to enforce , so that voluntary restriction remained the more important . |