Example sentences of "remain [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the penalties for water pollution offences are in theory more severe than most field staff believe them to be , they remain frail in comparison with those available to sanction traditional crime . ’ |
| 2 | The intermediary in the deal was Christoph Graf Douglas , head of Sotheby 's Germany , who pleaded strongly for the collection to remain intact in Germany . |
| 3 | ‘ While some institutions have made public share investments in hotel companies , the property departments remain shy of hotels , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Some children remain dry for years , then relapse after coming under stress . |
| 5 | Hayes forecasts that up until the year 2000 the library proportion will remain stable at 4% , but growth will occur in the IT proportion , rising to 11% of the institutional budget . |
| 6 | Why then do I remain seated for Sally Field , in soft focus , gulping back emotion , Sigourney Weaver groping for emotion — any emotion — and Kathleen Turner proving once again that she ca n't open a fridge door without flexing a buttock . |
| 7 | We suggest that the presence of acetylcholine alone will not provide an adequate stimulus for the sweat response in the event of nerve degeneration , as the full response requires the combined action of both transmitters , provided that the receptors remain intact after nerve degeneration . |
| 8 | NO 2 column amounts remain low during winter and in the springtime polar vortex , and later in spring gradually recover to their summer maximum values . |
| 9 | Even if she were finally cleared by Nick Morley 's investigation , she would remain guilty by association in the eyes of many racecourse insiders . |
| 10 | However — with the loss of Jordanian sovereignty — until the United States accepts the Palestinian claim to sovereignty over the occupied territories , Resolution 242 is bound to remain bereft of meaning , since there is no US-recognized state to which the West Bank and Gaza can be returned . |
| 11 | Also , what space is initially empty , and what would remain empty after stabilization of the blocks , can be directly discovered from the diagram and the imagined snapshots . |
| 12 | Moreover , since it is able to discover the empty space , and also those spaces that would remain empty throughout stabilization changes , it possesses a type of knowledge that would be crucial to an animal looking for a pathway or for a safe space through which to move . |
| 13 | I can make no waves ) , I would remain faithful to Irene . |
| 14 | Half of you felt the journal should remain free with membership , as it is an important way of staying in touch with the Institution 's work ; while other members said they would willingly pay extra , over their subscription to receive it . |
| 15 | The Law Society 's Remuneration Certificate service should remain free of charge , but the Society will have a power to require up to 50% of a bill to be paid by the client before the certificate is granted . |
| 16 | South Africa 's reply has been to attack transport and economic installations that link the neighbours so as to ensure that they remain dependent on South Africa . |
| 17 | But because expertise in chemistry and related sciences and technologies is often scarce in poor countries , they can not develop natural resources to their own advantage , and they remain dependent on experts from industrialised countries . |
| 18 | Many of those people remain dependent on officials in the Department . |
| 19 | Politicians ca n't force people to adopt Green lifestyles , and people remain dependent on politicians to set the legislative pace . |
| 20 | Borrowings remain high at £457m , for gearing of 51 p.c. , but the group has squeezed capital from the housebuilding side and , if trading unexpectedly worsened , it would simply have to sell prize assets instead of peripheries . |
| 21 | Antigliadin antibody-IgG may in fact remain high for years after starting the treatment , due to the ‘ immunological ’ memory . |
| 22 | He would be unlikely to survive the procedure but could well remain dependent on machinery for life support for weeks if not months before his heart stopped beating . |
| 23 | It may carry genes for large size but remain stunted through starvation . |
| 24 | Rosenthal 's own research , and his review of other genetic studies , also leads him to argue that the high probability that identical twins will either both develop or both remain free of schizophrenia is explained by their identical genetic constitution , rather than by a tendency on the part of their friends , relatives and parents to behave towards each of them in a very similar way . |
| 25 | The system of parental contributions is unfair and unacceptable in that it expects students to remain dependent on parents into adulthood . |
| 26 | We have already encountered an archetypal example of this in the Neolithic mother-goddess cult , and it may be that today , over-indulged children , not fully weaned because of permissive fashions in modern childrearing , and encouraged throughout their childhood and adolescence to remain dependent on parents who have been afraid to deny them anything , experience a similar hankering after the unobtainable but mouth-watering mother-as-breast . |
| 27 | Lozano was allowed to remain free on bail while appealing against his conviction . |
| 28 | Once infected , people remain carriers of the virus for life , some of them suffering repeated attacks while others build up enough resistance to remain free of symptoms . |
| 29 | The bulk of those who remain interested in UFOs seem less likely to have been motivated by personal experience and are more willing to undergo the reappraisal needed to rationalise their approach . |
| 30 | The ISS proposals are sensible , and many ILEA schools have sought to implement them , yet they remain limited in scope . |