Example sentences of "it remain a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Will it remain a rich man 's club , keeping Eastern Europe on the outer perimeter , linked by mere trade agreements , or , one step up , association agreements .
2 Or should it remain a neutral research instrument , and not become a Weltanschuung of an anti-religious kind ?
3 It remains a prime cause of inflation .
4 hip hop culture may not have meant an awful lot in Britain in 1992 but in America it remains a hot spot of commerce , musical cred and political dialogue .
5 It remains a superb pièce d'occasion , and is only rarely revived today .
6 In the case of a private company , a pre-1982 pre-emptive requirement is to be treated as if it were in its memorandum or articles so long as it remains a private company .
7 But whatever happens to particular processes , it remains a general condition of modern cultural technology that it both requires social forms of production and yet , within this , under specific economic conditions , imposes not only a professional but a class division of labour .
8 Although , in the evening , the orange glow of Newcastle-upon-Tyne hangs in the middle distance and the moan of motorways is blown to the outskirts of its beautiful formal gardens , it remains a peaceful oasis of eighteenth-century civilization , unchanged in its verdant park , beneath which lurk a hundred disused coal pits .
9 Despite the size that this fish can attain , it remains a peaceful fish .
10 ‘ . It remains a valetudinarian place , with baths a mile out of town to the east where plenty of people still go for treatment .
11 It remains a Soviet priority to dissuade the ASEAN states from taking the final step that would transform ASEAN into a Western-sponsored security system .
12 Even though there are excellent books and many stores which import ingredients direct , it remains a daunting task to prepare much of the Thai repertoire in domestic kitchens .
13 Although now rather dated , it remains a useful means of assessing the land ownership situation in most of Scotland .
14 For it remains a curious anomaly that although the marathon has been the classic test of long distance endurance throughout nearly a century of Olympic history , the fastest timings have never enjoyed the status of world records .
15 No simple agreed explanation is available ; it remains a major problem in demography
16 There are perhaps 24,000 registered purebred breeding cows in New Zealand and perhaps 15,000 in Canada , and it remains a major beef breed in Argentina , Brazil , Uruguay , the USA , Australia and South Africa .
17 We shall meet it often again , for it remains a powerful symbol throughout the history of Greek art and beyond .
18 But now all those Arab and Western powers that had invested such hopes in the plan will find it hard to sustain even a pretence that it remains a realistic proposal .
19 But now all those Arab and Western powers that had invested such hopes in the plan will find it hard to sustain even a pretence that it remains a realistic proposal .
20 Whoever designed it intended it to be an eye-catcher as well as a practical building , and it remains a local landmark in the middle of a field , Peyto 's estate having long gone .
21 The ghost associated with it remains a permanent threat to the living , as it wanders the earth with a stretched neck looking for companions .
22 No solution to this difficulty has been found and it remains a fundamental problem of ‘ do-it-yourself ’ data analysis .
23 However , it remains a hard task to convince society that much more should be done to create fairer employment opportunities for the disabled .
24 While this view of a readership is often deeply at odds with the actual circumstances of essay-writing in literature courses , it remains a conventional feature of academic style ; and your writing will produce very marked effects if you deviate from the conventions it has produced .
25 Relative to other disciplines , it remains a little-taught subject .
26 Therefore it is the responsibility of the LIFESPAN Manager to ensure that the log file is deleted periodically so that it remains a sensible size .
27 Although it remains a popular option , for many organisations it is not without problems .
28 One of the major achievements of twentieth- century jewellery , it remains a popular setting .
29 It remains a conservative model , based upon control and hierarchy .
30 As Neil MacCormick has observed : ‘ It remains a contested issue whether an aspiration to justice is to be treated as essential to or definitive of the legal enterprise in all its manifestations , or is to be distinguished as a specially urgent demand issued in the name of critical morality . ’
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