Example sentences of "remains of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What , in particular , remains of the doctrine of the sovereignty of Parliament by which no one Parliament may bind the actions of its successor ? |
| 2 | Would any remains of the wretch even reach the bubbling molten magma at the bottom ? |
| 3 | The housing conditions of Britain 's underclass , who are now largely housed in what remains of the council sector , were described by the report of the Archbishop 's Commission , Faith in the City ( Church House Publishing , 1985 ) , in the following graphic terms . |
| 4 | READERS fascinated by Mike Benton 's article ‘ The age of the rhynchosaur ’ ( 7 April , p 8 ) will be interested to learn that Warwickshire Museum , Warwick , has some splendid fossil remains of the beasts collected from local quarries . |
| 5 | Mr Perren tells me : ‘ By happy coincidence , on the very same day Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was in Bath on a film set too — the Merchant Ivory movie of The Remains Of The Day which she has scripted from the Kazuo Ishiguro novel . ’ |
| 6 | Emma Thompson will continue her rise in Remains of the Day and Much Ado About Nothing . |
| 7 | He starred in Bitter Moon and will soon be seen in The Remains of the Day . |
| 8 | As all that remains of the type specimen in the MCZ Harvard are fragments of the arms this can not be confirmed . |
| 9 | THE REMAINS of the shields and spears of five Dark Age warriors together with the jewellery of at least eight of their womenfolk have been unearthed near Cambridge . |
| 10 | THE REMAINS of the Globe Theatre , where Shakespeare acted and at least a dozen of his plays were premiered , have been discovered by archaeologists excavating on the south bank of the Thames in central London . |
| 11 | As an additional thought , the developers are going to be asked to manage what remains of the woodland . |
| 12 | It would have been expecting too much to imagine that the once-mighty ‘ Hitler myth ’ might disappear overnight in 1945 , disintegrating along with the mortal remains of the Führer himself and being scattered with the ashes of the Third Reich . |
| 13 | Here , then , are two more of the group of " preliminary studies " from which BT was to emerge ; and indeed a letter to Wagner later that year refers to " The Dionysiac Philosophy " , in precisely such terms , as a Vorstudium , Whatever remains of the course on Oedipus Rex itself is as yet unpublished . |
| 14 | In such a case the only way to make sense of the rule that the buyer must bear the loss is still to make him pay whilst allowing him to take whatever remains of the goods . |
| 15 | Refill it by closing the draincock and restoring the water supply to the feed-and-expansion tank , and turn the system back on so you can pump the clean water round again and remove the last remains of the descaling . |
| 16 | Remains of the chancel are said to be of the 12th century , and the tower was rebuilt in the 15th century and has three bells . |
| 17 | Patches of scorched earth are the only physical evidence that remains of the invasion that took place on Castlemorton Common . |
| 18 | What remains of the headquarters team should then be reorganised to make the most of computers , and exposed to the sort of cost-cutting techniques usually associated with the shop floor . |
| 19 | There remained , however , the boarded up remains of the Melvin Hotel , which had stood derelict and unwanted since the day it was bombed in 1972 . |
| 20 | The roadbridge survives today , but the cutting has been completely filled in and no trace remains of the station . |
| 21 | Nothing remains of the warrior but his weapons |
| 22 | The Literary Remains of the Rev. Simeon Singer , 3 vols. , 1908 . ] |
| 23 | If you go north from Porta Venezia , taking Corso Buenos Aires to reach Via Palazzi , and taking the third turning to the left , you can view what remains of the Lazzaretto , the church of San Carlo — of no great merit despite being the work of Il Pellegrini — and a section of the portico that forms part of the northern section of the school at No.12 Via Tadino , the first road crossed by Via Palazzi . |
| 24 | During this restoration work some traces of earlier Norman work were found embedded in the walls of the aisles , also remains of the rood screen . |
| 25 | These bare poles are all that remains of the jungle that the lake drowned as the waters rose behind the dam . |
| 26 | The new pope was enthroned in the most sacred place in the basilica of St Peter , in front of the confessio or altar of St Peter , close to the mortal remains of the apostle to whom Christ had committed the government of His Church on earth . |
| 27 | Only 5O of the Madagascar rain forest presently survives and little remains of the Atlantic coastal forest of Brazil . |
| 28 | The village was an important source of gunpowder in the nineteenth century , and remains of the industry can still be seen . |
| 29 | Most of the other metopes are fragmentary , and it is hard to say if they carry out this distinction , though the little that remains of the lion suggests that it went well with the other western ones . |
| 30 | Remains of the entablature and Doric pilasters are distinguishable in the ground arcade ( 126 ) . |