Example sentences of "it remains a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It remains a prime cause of inflation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It remains a superb pièce d'occasion , and is only rarely revived today . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Despite the size that this fish can attain , it remains a peaceful fish . |
| 8 | ‘ . It remains a valetudinarian place , with baths a mile out of town to the east where plenty of people still go for treatment . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Although now rather dated , it remains a useful means of assessing the land ownership situation in most of Scotland . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | No simple agreed explanation is available ; it remains a major problem in demography |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We shall meet it often again , for it remains a powerful symbol throughout the history of Greek art and beyond . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The ghost associated with it remains a permanent threat to the living , as it wanders the earth with a stretched neck looking for companions . |
| 20 | No solution to this difficulty has been found and it remains a fundamental problem of ‘ do-it-yourself ’ data analysis . |
| 21 | However , it remains a hard task to convince society that much more should be done to create fairer employment opportunities for the disabled . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Relative to other disciplines , it remains a little-taught subject . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Although it remains a popular option , for many organisations it is not without problems . |
| 26 | One of the major achievements of twentieth- century jewellery , it remains a popular setting . |
| 27 | It remains a conservative model , based upon control and hierarchy . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Nevertheless , it remains a big challenge . ’ |
| 30 | It remains a holy city for Muslims , Christians and Jews , all of whom for the very best of reasons — they are the good guys — have slaughtered each other within its walls . |