Example sentences of "[noun sg] to remain [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , since the presence of the deceased on the premises was in direct contravention of an express instruction issued by the brewery to their manager , the brewery were not liable ; his permission to remain on the premises had ceased at closing time , 10.30 p.m .
2 On March 4 temporary permission to remain in the UK was granted to a Sudanese man who fled racist attacks in Germany .
3 Well I 've already said about the bulk transfer Giro , I quite honestly do n't know whether any other option can be given to people , they 've given the option to defer their pension with the Post or their present scheme , transferred it new company scheme or take out er the money and take out a personal pension fund er I suppose there might be a possibility of offering people after a certain number past a certain number of years the opportunity to remain within the fund they 're in but er the contribution and who , who makes a contribution may be a problem , but that 's the only other option I can see .
4 The former National Party leader and Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon , also an outspoken opponent of free market economics , was offered several minor posts outside the Cabinet , but turned them all down as " insulting " and expressed his intention to remain on the back benches , from where he would be free to criticize the new government .
5 And the club committee was given the go-ahead to seek legal advice in their bid to remain at the ground for at least six months under a protected tenancy .
6 This presentation allows the hint of primitive ritual to remain in the background , just as later Eliot was to imply with deliberate provocation that behind the High Mass lay , if one went back far enough , ‘ the Australian ceremonies described by Spencer and Gillen and Hewett [ sic ] ’ .
7 By having an attack of the infectious disease the body is stimulated to produce appropriate antibodies not only to assist recovery but also to provide a sufficient quantity to remain in the blood for a longer period , sometimes throughout life , for example after an attack of rubella
8 Fees for legal aid work to remain at the levels set in April 1992 , despite the increase in overheads of the profession .
9 Because of the Queen 's determination to remain on the throne , Charles will never become King .
10 Section 5(4) deems ownership to remain with the victim .
11 They are poorly paid , mainly young and female , have little chance of career progression and no incentive to remain in the profession .
12 Those rejected could be expelled from Austria ; they could appeal , but without the right to remain pending the outcome of such an appeal .
13 In an agreement for the sale of land the vendor reserved the right to remain at the property after completion as licensee and to trade therefrom without payment of rent
14 On the other hand , if the right to refuse to transfer does not entail the right to remain for the transferor , perhaps the employee 's right to refuse on the sale of a business is nearly illusory , and he or she is in reality in no better position than the worker who sees the employing company bought over his or her head .
15 The term is used to distinguish citizens from ‘ aliens ’ who suffer certain disabilities such as having no right to remain in the country , being liable to be deported in certain circumstances , often not being entitled to vote ( though Commonwealth citizens and citizens of the Republic of Ireland resident in this country do have the vote ) or to receive state benefits .
16 This right of enforcement is further enhanced by the fact that English insolvency law permits a chargee to remain outside the insolvency proceedings and to enforce his charge independently of such proceedings .
17 Some jellyfish beat the edges of the bell rhythmically and thereby rise in the water to remain near the surface .
18 As leader of the militant Ulster Unionists he not only voiced the six counties ' wish to remain under the King and the Parliament at Westminster , but organised a large force of Ulster Volunteers , for whom arms were landed in 1913 .
19 If you think this is the case then ask the interviewee to remain in the waiting room for five minutes in case you wish to ask them back .
20 The formal incantation of such words would suffice for the tribunal to remain within the scope of its authority .
21 Even those with the commitment to remain in the country have difficulties in adjusting to the nature of the work dictated by prevailing health patterns .
22 The man was overcoming his feelings of inferiority by demonstrating that he had the strength of will to remain on the bank , unperturbed , while the child drowned .
23 The decision , by 14 votes to one ( Cuba ) , meant that the only territory to remain within the Trusteeship Agreement was Belau .
24 A NEW YORK federal appeals court has overturned a key decision that would have allowed an former Belfast IRA man to remain in the United States .
25 ‘ Yes , ’ she said and held her sheepskin in both hands as though willing some part of the past to remain in the present .
26 It therefore becomes easy for the ideal of village life to remain among the newcomers , even though the reality for the locals may be very different .
27 ‘ I would consider it my duty to remain at the salon until you had found a suitable replacement for me , ’ she said primly .
28 Counsel for the Crown conceded , in our view rightly , that in a case where the prosecution has been completed and the judge thereafter refuses leave to the Crown to discontinue , it is counsel for the prosecution 's duty to remain in the case .
29 She took care to remain on the threshold while he did so .
30 It would have been unreasonable of the author/translator to expect this item of information to remain in the reader 's consciousness after three intervening pages and an explicitly marked change of scene or topic .
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