Example sentences of "remains [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are a little smaller , club-shaped and covered with a shiny brown fluid which neither hardens nor evaporates , but remains liquid for the three or four weeks it takes the eggs higher up the twig to hatch . |
| 2 | This gives it a bite that is lacking in much sociological research , which remains descriptive and under-theorized , and which sees all meaning systems as logically equal . |
| 3 | While it would be erroneous to view this sort of poetry as a unified and self-conscious expression of cultural resistance , it remains possible to see in it assertions of identity and interest separate from those of more affluent writers . |
| 4 | The seasons can not be made more gentle , yet it remains possible to assert the dignity of people who have to bear their harshness . |
| 5 | Although we may want to reject Wagner 's ( 1976 , 1981 ) specific formulation , it remains possible that other versions of associative theory might be able to explain the findings on context-specificity . |
| 6 | What remains possible , however , is that differentiation occurs alongside the associative processes . |
| 7 | This , too , is entirely reasonable but it does require that attention be paid to compatibilities of systems so that future system integration remains possible . |
| 8 | But , it remains possible that the imagery is a construct based upon that person 's memory ( as later told to him ) of his process of birth . |
| 9 | This is a working example demonstrating that much remains possible in the NHS of the '90s . |
| 10 | However , it remains possible that people do see the support which they give to elderly relatives as part of a two-way pattern which stretches over time and across generations , and where they themselves will benefit ultimately from the support of someone in a younger generation . |
| 11 | Evidence that long tails impose viability costs is very limited , yet without this it remains possible that tail elongation has sometimes been driven by natural selection , perhaps because it improves aerodynamic efficiency , manoeuvrability or stability . |
| 12 | It remains possible that a few patients are susceptible to a change in insulin species , and obviously patients who are unhappy with human insulin should not remain on it . |
| 13 | If it is improbable that any further major developments will come from this stock , it is also unlikely , on the evidence of the last six hundred million years , that the group will disappear as long as life remains possible at all in the seas of the world . |
| 14 | Such an interaction , however , remains possible in patients with severe asthma . |
| 15 | In so far as it remains possible to approach the problem as a matter of principle , the law should be that , if a person is acting in a way that is independently lawful , his conduct should not become unlawful merely because he fails to obey the instructions of a policeman . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , on Venus it remains possible that no such surface repositories exist and that the correspondence of pressures is coincidental . |
| 17 | Thus , whilst the similarity of the inert-gas graph for meteorites to those of the planets in Figure 5.2 certainly supports the view that those inert gases were acquired during accretion , it remains possible that the dominant volatiles were acquired by the capture of volatile-rich bodies after accretion . |
| 18 | It remains possible that schemata play a general role in the recognition part of these studies . |
| 19 | Proximal realignment remains possible as long as the stent is not completely opened . |
| 20 | As the stent is left in the distal part of the CBD , a future hepaticojejunostomy or choledochoduodenostomy still remains possible as was shown in one of our patients . |
| 21 | It remains possible , however , that these abnormalities are simply a consequence of small vessels becoming involved in the chronic inflammatory process . |
| 22 | Since the laser Doppler recordings represent highly localised measurements , it remains possible that the most poorly perfused areas escaped detection in some patients . |
| 23 | It may not be coincidental that two of the long survivors with very low CD4 counts were also the oldest patients in the study , and it remains possible that the genetic background or immune changes responsible for AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis are , with increasing age , more likely to indicate a good prognosis independently of the CD4 count . |
| 24 | It remains possible that monoclonal antibody against pre-S1 used in the present study has less affinity to the plasma membrane of hepatocyte than that against pre-S2 . |
| 25 | Among younger MPs Gordon Brown remains possible but , says Watkins , the smart money is on Tony Blair . |
| 26 | Although it remains possible that phosphorylation of c-Jun at Ser-249 by the DNA-PK activates its transcriptional potential in vivo , the body of evidence therefore suggests that it is involved in regulating some other aspect of c-Jun function . |
| 27 | Yet the sense of having missed a once-on-a-lifetime boat remains acute . |
| 28 | It is deplorable that the old Aldens supermarket site remains underused and the Whitehouse football ground plans stagnate . |
| 29 | Like the cross-dressing explored in the last chapter , gender inversion remains controversial because it allegedly only inverts , rather than displaces , the gender binary . |
| 30 | The role of serum triglyceride remains controversial . |