Example sentences of "remained [adj] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spartak remained unruffled in the face of a Liverpool onslaught which failed to transform possession into clear chances . |
| 2 | Doubts about the son 's ability to ensure that this bequest remained intact in the face of other claimants may have led his co-trustees to start the legal action . |
| 3 | In these subjects , there was no difference in methanogenic counts and activities remained stable in the presence or absence of 15 mmol/d sulphate . |
| 4 | They remained popular in the West throughout the Middle Ages and even continued to be used by the supreme tribunal of the Holy Roman Empire until its abolition by Napoleon in 1806 . |
| 5 | Even when a budgetary procedure was first reluctantly accepted in 1953 ( under extreme pressure from Self ) , the engineers continued to see their task in technical not financial terms , and the financial controls remained rudimentary in the extreme . |
| 6 | The memories of public humiliation , all those years ago , on the steps of University College , London , with Tariq Ali and Daniel Cohn-Bendit remained fresh in the mind . |
| 7 | Although below the surface tension remained high in the countryside , and there were repeated rumours of an imminent ‘ real ’ Emancipation , the number of disturbances tailed off . |
| 8 | This military model of the disciplined body , responding instantly to word of command , remained paramount in the years before the First War . |
| 9 | Barrel vaults were developed first and remained satisfactory in the south where their immense thrust on the walls could be borne by the use of small windows to avoid weakening the structure . |
| 10 | The key Foreign Affairs , Finance and Chief Cabinet Secretary posts remained unchanged in the reshuffle . |
| 11 | Unfortunately the Company failed to get Corporation sanction for this , and so the trailers remained disused in the depot until replaced by new cars 9 and 10 , built by Milnes in 1891 . |
| 12 | Hodgson 's brewery , whose tap room in the Bow Road bore the name Bombay Grab , remained pre-eminent in the India beer trade until at least the 1820s . |
| 13 | In 1863 Turner 's third son , William , assumed control of the Hammersmith Iron Works , but Turner remained involved in the business into the 1870s , in particular over the additions to the Winter Garden at Regent 's Park and those to the curvilinear range at the National Botanic Gardens , Dublin . |
| 14 | While white society engulfed the Christian Nez Perce , the 200 or so people of Joseph 's Wellamotkin band remained aloof in the Wallowa valley . |
| 15 | Though purity remained hegemonic in the years before the First War , there was another feminist strategy for speaking about sex . |
| 16 | Big business remained dominant in the economy — so long as prosperity continued . |
| 17 | Lisa glared into his face and remained motionless in the doorway . |
| 18 | Excess land acquired for construction of the docks was not released , and the area remained remote in the minds of manufacturers . |
| 19 | Lisburn 's Paul McBurney remained unbeaten in the league and on Saturday he won the 200m in 22.1 and the one lap event with 49.4 . |
| 20 | To conclude that the potential for peasant revolution against the status quo remained undiminished in the decade after 1905 does not of course , dispose of the liberal contention that given a longer period of peaceful development the prospects would have changed . |
| 21 | The organisers are confident that this rigour will set a new standard for fairs in Italy , and hope , despite the world-wide economic gloom , to stimulate the Italian buying public , which has , even this year , remained active in the price-range up to £50,000 ( $100,000 ) . |
| 22 | Notwithstanding , Lowther remained active in the council of the north until his death . |
| 23 | She retired from the chairmanship in 1951 but remained active in the association into her nineties . |
| 24 | The police remained silent in the face of such speculation . |
| 25 | An account which remained unchallenged in the press reports was that a girl of 12 had ‘ provoked ’ her death by failing to reveal her age prior to sex play . |
| 26 | For the Central Powers , however , the situation remained perilous in the extreme . |