Many of the rooms remain exactly as he left them.

The situation remained exactly at the limit of possible strain.

He remained exactly as you see him all that night and for the ensuing days.

She was in luck: the party remained exactly as it had been before.

Lee Rosen, the building's general manager, wanted the building to remain exactly as it is.

The room remains exactly as it was 400 years ago.

All this time the sleeper-waker remained exactly as I have last described him.

All else would remain exactly as it is, and continue to attract tourists.

The party therefore remained exactly as he had left it three quarters of an hour ago.

It gives us some reason to believe that things do not always remain exactly as they are.