Example sentences of "be [adj] to remain [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as establishing reduced overall catch quotas for 1991 ( 93,570 tonnes for cod , 40,500 for haddock ) , they agreed that fishing boats over 100 tonnes in the North Sea and also along the west coast of Scotland , more than 40 per cent of whose catch consisted of cod and haddock , should be obliged to remain in port for eight consecutive days each month from Feb. 1 to Dec. 31 , 1991 . |
| 2 | Only a small percentage of black children were able to remain at school beyond primary level . |
| 3 | He was due to remain as leader of the party until a successor was chosen at a leadership convention in Calgary on June 23 , 1990 . |
| 4 | Technically , unless accepted by the Speaker , a resignation from the Assembly became operative only if approved by the Assembly as a whole , which was due to remain in recess until September . |
| 5 | However , the register , classifying the remainder of the country 's 36,000,000 people , only 4,500,000 of them white , was due to remain in force until the agreement of an eventual new constitution which , de Klerk told parliament , was " within our reach within a few years " . |
| 6 | " This followed , " writes Mackintosh , " from the view that while a ministry retained the confidence of the elected representatives it was entitled to remain in office . |