Example sentences of "but they remain [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they remain firm friends , and David has nothing but praise for the way his former girlfriend has handled stardom . |
| 2 | None of these difficulties are likely to trouble us much in daily life , but they remain genuine difficulties none the less and raise issues of fundamental importance ; for if there can be no absolutely reliable and unequivocal criteria for deciding whether any given existent remains numerically , and not merely qualitatively , the same from one moment in time to the next , then we can not hope to be able to " define " the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity in terms of the criteria of particular-identification . |
| 3 | They became ‘ the doctor ’ for the working class , but they remained private entrepreneurs who had to make their living by charging for their services . |
| 4 | But they remained second-class citizens as the Service restocked itself with young men of the right background from Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 5 | Various regulations were proclaimed from the early years of British rule , but they remained dead letters for most of the century . |