Example sentences of "be to remain [prep] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( They were to remain in use for that purpose until the reception of casuals was finally discontinued on November 7th 1949 , when their presence was represented as a deterrent to the recruitment of nurses and a hindrance to the upgrading of what had become the North Wing of Bedford General Hospital . |
| 2 | The ban on commercial whaling is to remain in force for another year , as a result of decisions taken at the 44th annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) held in Glasgow , Scotland , on June 29-July 3 . |
| 3 | This new fashion for dressing a corpse was to remain in vogue for the next fifty years . |
| 4 | And it did not mention a fixed life-span , with provision for renewal or renegotiation : the Treaty was to remain in force for ‘ an unlimited period ’ . |
| 5 | It was the persuasion of the Vice Society that led Lord Chancellor Campbell to push through the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 , an Act which was to remain in force for a hundred years , and this was followed by the establishment of the first ( and short-lived ) Obscene Publications police squad in London . |
| 6 | Drawn up by a panel of civilian and military experts , the charter was to remain in force for a 30-month interim period , at the end of which a referendum would be held on a new constitution for Chad . |
| 7 | Lord Derby had again become Prime Minister in 1866 to be replaced for a short period by Benjamin Disraeli , but by the end of 1868 Mr. W. E. Gladstone took control of Parliament , and was to remain in control for over five years . |
| 8 | Dunne himself went out of his way to insist that his theory was free from any occult taint ; but An Experiment with Time , revised and expanded in 1934 , was to remain in print for over half a century ; and ironically , it won the reputation of doing more to convince the general public of the reality of clairvoyance , in the form of precognition , than all the labours of the psychical researchers whom Dunne so mistrusted . |
| 9 | Thus in a few years a mere convenience for keyboard players had developed into a widely adopted performing practice which revolutionized musical textures and was to remain in use for two centuries . |
| 10 | Assuming that a common position could be reached between the US , France , Britain , India and the Philippines , either one of the last two countries would convene a conference ; France would be induced to grant Vietnam full independence ; and an international commission would be established that was to remain in place for several years . |