Example sentences of "[vb mod] remain in the " in BNC.

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1 some residual contamination may remain in the soil owing to concentrations which do not induce microbial degradation ;
2 If untreated , recovery occurs after a few weeks , but discharging abscesses may remain in the groin .
3 Joe now withdrew his hand from the desk and , rising to his feet , he looked down on to the upturned faces of the two men and said , ‘ My mother may remain in the house as long as she wishes , but the running of it , the accounts and such , I wish to leave in your control .
4 Thus , the record of many negative movements of base level may remain in the landscape to be interpreted by the geomorphologist .
5 As a result aggradation took place and the surfaces of such aggradations , now dissected by later erosion , may remain in the form of terraces .
6 But he must remain in the custody of the bailiff , who said however there was no need for it .
7 She was adamant that her daughter-in-law must remain in the capital .
8 The limited partner(s) contribute a fixed amount of money when joining the partnership , and this money must remain in the partnership .
9 Er , Birmingham region , Brian , who will count G M B Scotland Lancashire region , John who will count Southern Liverpool region , Alan who will count South Western London , Bill who will count Yorkshire Midland , Colin who will count Birmingham Northern , Derek who will count Lancashire G M B Scotland , Mary , who will count Liverpool Southern , Jack who will count London South Western , John , the other John , who will count Midland Yorkshire , Ray who will count Northern er , and now the pep talk it should be emphasized that tellers must remain in the congress hall while congress is in session and of course that delegates must be in their allotted seats when a vote is taken .
10 Roth also explains that he was ‘ educated to believe that the independent reality of the fiction is all there is of importance and that writers should remain in the shadows ’ .
11 For that reason , it should remain in the hands of local government .
12 Families can be torn in trying to decide whether children should accompany their parents abroad and receive their schooling there or whether they should remain in the home country at a boarding school .
13 They believe it essential that farmers should remain in the far north , however uneconomic their agriculture , lest half the country become depopulated .
14 The tentacle pores of the arms are not as open as in other members of this subfamily and are armed with one large tentacle scale , resembling the arrangement of Ophiopristis , and may be intermediate between the Ophiotominae and Ophiacanthinae but pending further study should remain in the Ophiotominae .
15 There were many complaints about the number of people registering for charity , and the Burgesses ordered that ‘ in future no stranger , journeyman or servant , single or married should remain in the borough longer than six days without giving account of himself to the Mayor ’ .
16 reaffirmed the high landscape value of the appeal site and its determination that it should remain in the Green Belt .
17 I recall that my right hon. Friend and I campaigned together on the same side in favour of a ’ yes ’ vote in the 1975 referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Community .
18 The two sides disagreed on whether 100,000 Moroccan soldiers and thousands of Moroccan administrators should remain in the region during the referendum , the Polisario officials insisting that they be withdrawn beforehand , while Morocco offered to confine them to their garrisons .
19 In an early paper for the Council he adumbrated what he was later to name ‘ partnership in validation ’ : final authority should remain in the hands of the Council , but academic boards in ‘ experienced institutions ’ could be authorized ‘ to reach decisions in defined areas ’ , decisions to be reported to the Council and normally accepted by it as ‘ acts of the Council ’ .
20 Organophosphate should remain in the dock until it is proven innocent . ’
21 I 'll remain in the open where I 'm easily seen , easy to find .
22 When the palm leaf sways in the wind , it seems almost impossible that the single egg could remain in the tiny cup .
23 Our playmates swam quietly to the edge of the pool , while Lorne and I began to climb out until signalled that we could remain in the water if we wished .
24 The answer is straightforward : the exchange-rate mechanism would continue , run by the enlarged chamber of governors , and all currencies that were not in stage three could remain in the exchange-rate mechanism or outside it , depending on what they chose .
25 Supply would remain in the hands of crooks who would continue to push , but with total impunity , not just to their existing customers but as hard as they could to new ones as well .
26 He has said Egyptian troops would remain in the Gulf until they complete their mission , which he describes as aiding Kuwait under joint Arab defence agreements .
27 Outlining the decree , the Commander-in-Chief of Commonwealth Forces , Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov , said the fleet 's military operations would remain in the hands of the Commonwealth of Independent States , but be subordinate to Mr Yeltsin , and that all financing would come from Russia .
28 Most of the fallout would remain in the environment .
29 To make matters worse it was generally believed that the spirit of the child would remain in the body of the mother , and so for three days after the actual birth the mother had to sit by a wood and bamboo fire and sweat out the child 's spirit so that the child should be completed and the mother freed from what was now an alien spirit inside her .
30 The pair would remain in the house , and the rest go out to the fishhouse .
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