Example sentences of "remained [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previously this ratio had remained stable for more than 20 years . |
| 2 | Feral goats have inhibited the island of 150 square kilometres for at least 100 years , but unlike the exploding colonies of goats in some of the Galapagos Islands , the Aldabra goats have remained stable and perhaps even declined in recent years . |
| 3 | The classic sexually transmitted diseases , such as gonorrhoea and syphilis have remained stable since the mid 1970s . |
| 4 | And yet , they say , Earth 's temperature has remained stable , implying that life has been regulating the composition of gases , and the biota must have been controlling its own environment . |
| 5 | Apart from farmers , even the old petty bourgeoisie have grown or remained stable as a proportion of the labour force . |
| 6 | The price of software in Moscow has remained stable so far , despite the sharp drop in the dollar-rouble exchange rate last month : market researcher Soft Market polled 20 software dealers in Moscow and found that prices are steady in spite of the currency fluctuation and Borland International Inc 's use of a US dollar benchmark for its rouble products sold in the former Soviet Union — where it had set rouble prices according to local conditions , it now takes a dollar price and converts it into roubles at the market rate . |
| 7 | They have remained stable , however , if a more general comparison is made between manual and non-manual groups , as Table 3.14 shows . |
| 8 | In England , however , the low infection rate seems to have remained stable over the past decade as the number of cases reported each week to the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre has not varied greatly . |
| 9 | Delays before the first appointment have largely remained stable in four of the five pain clinics based in teaching hospitals ( albeit at a high level ) ; in the fifth clinic the median delay increased from 13 to 19 weeks between 1990 and 1992 . |
| 10 | The United Kingdom 's population grew steadily from the end of World War II until the early 1970s , since when its total has remained stable . |
| 11 | IEA chairman Geoffrey Chipperfield said on March 6 that 17 countries had released oil from stockpiles , and that both world supplies and world oil prices had remained stable throughout the crisis . |
| 12 | In most countries , damage to spruce remained stable or decreased slightly , although a notable deterioration was recorded in Czechoslovakia , Lithuania and Poland . |
| 13 | Despite unfavourable weather , grain production had remained stable at around 21,700,000 tonnes , and 1,000,000 tonnes of rice had been exported . |
| 14 | Hence , tests of this relationship have had to use historical data and have had to assume that the distribution of returns has remained stable over time . |
| 15 | They have produced evidence that the Antarctic ice cap has remained stable for over 11 million years , despite fluctuations in global temperature . |
| 16 | It also rejects the claim that there is no problem because the total area of temperate forests has remained stable ; this statistic , it says , masks regional losses and the replacement of diverse native or old-growth forests with plantations . |
| 17 | Emissions fell by 25 per cent between 1980-85 but have remained stable since . |
| 18 | Fuel and Energy Miniser Yury Shafranik said that the waste of energy resources had increased over the past two years and that energy use had remained stable , despite falling production . |
| 19 | Ever since Charity arrived in her flat , Clarissa had not only remained shy , but puzzled . |
| 20 | Two of them , Nottingham and the City of Leicester Colleges of Education have been merged with Trent and Leicester Polytechnics respectively ; one , Loughborough College of Education , has merged with Loughborough University of Technology ; two , Bishop Lonsdale College of Education , Derby , and Northampton College of Education , have merged with other further education colleges in their towns to form new institutions known respectively as Derby Lonsdale College of Higher Education and Nene College ; two colleges , Bishop Grosseteste , Lincoln , and Matlock College of Education , have remained free-standing and four , Kesteven College of Education , Grantham ; Mary Ward College , Keyworth ; Eaton Hall , Retford ; and St Paul 's , Rugby , have closed down . |
| 21 | But while a sophisticated series of discourses has been developed to analyse the problems and conflicts in women 's experience , and especially the pain and anguish of women 's social , domestic , emotional , and sexual lives , the reasons why most women continue to define ourselves , and to practise as heterosexual have remained unexplored . |
| 22 | As a result of these pressures we are forced to modify somewhat our style of approach in order to shed light upon certain aspects of our main topic which have remained unexplored hitherto , but this modification of style , as will become clearer in the sequel , does not invalidate our earlier approach , but rather structurally complements it . |
| 23 | Franklin had once written a letter to Sir Ralph which the Member thought highly offensive and relations between them had since remained frigid . |
| 24 | However , the selection of a DASS for the aircraft has remained outstanding . |
| 25 | But though , at the revolution , Romanians were shocked by stories about the pictures of the luxurious excesses of the Ceauşescus ' lifestyle — which until then had remained private — they had to whisper about their children , especially Nicu , if they wanted gossip of a Neronian quality . |
| 26 | What they said remained inaudible , but it was clear that the Frenchman was offering only an occasional monosyllable to punctuate her husband 's rambling drawl . |
| 27 | He should have remained alert . |
| 28 | The dualistic ambience in literature has long been influential , but has remained controversial , and it is both influential and controversial in these annals of the House of Roth . |
| 29 | Our findings about symmetry perception also demonstrate that neglected information that is unavailable for verbal report may nevertheless be represented implicitly , confirming previous reports which have remained controversial . |
| 30 | Eligibility to vote remained controversial . |