Example sentences of "remained [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No way of retreat , and no safe base , now remained for the remaining Spaniards and their Scottish allies . |
| 2 | The train braked to a shuddering halt at the Paisley signal box where it remained for the next thirty minutes whilst the driver and guard proceeded to examine the underside and topside of the train . |
| 3 | Censorship remained for the state-run broadcast media , and the government retained the right to close down publications which printed articles to which it objected . |
| 4 | The Spanish Church , although forced by nineteenth-century liberal governments to release most of its vast landed wealth , remained during the early twentieth century a rich , powerful and traditionalist institution whose ties with the wealthy classes , moreover , were becoming closer . |
| 5 | He commanded the ships that remained off the Spanish coast in April 1657 when Blake launched the attack on Santa Cruz , and , when Blake sailed for home in July , Stokes became commander of the force left to maintain the blockade . |
| 6 | The abuses of the latifundia had been recognized before the systematic criticism of the later eighteenth century and the case against the great estate remained as the emotional drive behind all land reform . |
| 7 | Thus the fueros , which supported the independence of these foral provinces , remained as the main political challenge to nineteenth-century liberalism . |
| 8 | I think the , this is quite well illustrated by the figures on employees , where the numbers employed fell by getting on for ten percent , though our spending on employees remained about the same , partly as a result of pay increases , partly also , as a result of changes in the profile of grades of the staff at the Council , and a movement towards better staff , better paid , and then finally the saving we make each year as turnover of staff occurs , and we do n't have to pay salaries during the handover period from one person to another , that saving that has reduced because the turnover of staff has reduced . |
| 9 | By this time the Jewish community in Greece had dwindled to something like 6,000 ( from the 11,000 which remained after the Nazi occupation ; 75,000 having been liquidated ) . |
| 10 | At the end of trading the U K market remained below the two hundred level at one hundred and ninety nine point two up eight point nine points , volume was moderate with four O nine point six million shares traded . |
| 11 | What remained of the armed independence movement was based in Manchuria , where it later came under communist domination and was headed by Kim Il-sung . |
| 12 | Just in front of it lay what remained of the ancient forum of Roman Beyrutus , three bullet-slashed columns in the middle of the road . |
| 13 | The peacekeeping forces of the ECOWAS monitoring group ECOMOG moved onto the offensive on Oct. 1 with the aim of creating a buffer zone between the three warring factions in the capital — namely Charles Taylor 's rebel NPFL , what remained of the former government forces now commanded by Brig. -Gen . |
| 14 | Within 150 years of Osman 's death in 1324 his successors had overrun what remained of the Byzantine empire and had occupied almost all the territory of present-day Yugoslavia which lies south of the Sava-Danube line . |
| 15 | The thirty-nine works Brooklyn acquired nineteen paintings , nine works on paper and three sculptures ; the Met gained seven oils and one work on paper are all that remained of the hundreds of works the Lowenthals purchased between 1943 and 1958 . |
| 16 | She quickly thrust what remained of the one package , together with the fat whole package down her shirt where it was visible . |
| 17 | In what remained of the once-great Richardson clan , Sam was the closest that they had to brains . |
| 18 | The second picture showed what remained of the wrecked car in Prague , the car which had belonged to Ladislav Sacher . |
| 19 | A few miles away , in three directions , lay the crescent islands of Verlaten , Lang Eiland and Rakata , which were all that remained of the original mother volcano 's metamorphosis . |
| 20 | In the centre of the carbonaceous ball I could discern a small whitish marble which seemed to be all that remained of the original vegetable . |
| 21 | After the first partition of Poland in 1772 Danzig remained independent but tied to what remained of the Polish state by trade and treaty . |
| 22 | After hours of saturating bombardment , the German assault troops would surge forward to carry what remained of the French front line . |
| 23 | The thatch of what remained of the subsided roof was streaked with the dark green of lichen . |
| 24 | To the east was a thin strip of coast , all that remained of the sweeping plains of Tiranoc . |
| 25 | One of the rusting iron pipes fastened to the shed wall and apparently coming from what remained of the old boilerhouse inside , had a plate affixed to it , near the stump of what must have been a water stop valve . |
| 26 | We soon came upon a fascinating group of ancient dwellings , all that remained of the old village where the last inhabitants of Rona lived in primitive conditions and awful isolation until their final evacuation in 1844 . |
| 27 | When the first European missionaries came to China in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries no trace remained of the heavenly clockwork of five hundred years earlier . |
| 28 | Not a trace remained of the cold rage that had set his face like granite . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , the Magistrate had ordered the native pensioners to collect up the vernacular records and documents which lay in shallow drifts in the new trenches … all that now remained of the experimental greenhouse in which he had observed the progress and ubiquity of the Company 's stupidity . |
| 30 | What remained of the Scottish chivalry had re-formed in haste to face the English charge . |