Example sentences of "remain on the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was to ensure that throughout the years that lay ahead he would remain on the road .
2 She will remain on the throne as long as her health holds .
3 Sub-units of the regular army would remain on the border between the two republics , but would not contain Armenian troops .
4 Nevertheless , the concept of a zone of peace continues to represent a potential significant area of shared interest between the ASEAN states and Vietnam and this ensures that it will remain on the agenda for both parties although the terminology they use and the objectives they pursue may differ .
5 Their celebrity Class 25 diesel , ‘ Tamworth Castle ’ , will remain on the Kent and East Sussex Railway for another season .
6 Complexities arise in the usage of tense , time adverbs and other time-deictic morphemes wherever there is a departure from this assumption , e.g. in letter writing , or the pre-recording of media programmed In that event , a decision has to be made about whether the deictic centre will remain on the speaker and CT , as in ( 51 ) , or will be projected on the addressee and RT , as in ( 52 ) ( Fillmore , 1975 ) : ( 51 ) a .
7 After a section has been weeded , those books which are considered worth retaining in their existing form will remain on the shelves — one would hope , a substantial proportion .
8 It is those contracts that will remain on the register .
9 The terrorist might say that he gave sufficient warning of the bomb for the area to be cleared , and that it was unforeseeable that a deaf person should remain on the premises and be killed in the explosion , which was intended only to cause damage .
10 He will remain on the board .
11 Hence , those areas of resist which were masked from the UV light by the artwork will remain on the board .
12 If the resist is not exposed for a long enough period , it will not develop fully and so some traces will remain on the board .
13 Fusco will remain on the board as chairman .
14 Mundie , one of the three founders of Alliant in 1982 , will remain on the board to advise in final sale of the service business and ultimate liquidation of the company .
15 He had not been well early in the previous year , and decided to resign as Chairman , though he did remain on the Board for five more years as the Goldsmiths ' nominee .
16 He will remain on the board of Saatchi as a non-executive director and will be replaced as chief executive by Charles Scott , who he brought with him into the company as finance director in January 1990 .
17 Mr Stewart is staying on as chief executive until his successor is ready to start and after that he will remain on the board .
18 Accounts files will remain on the system for as long as necessary , so that 1990/91 accounts can be completed , and for proving the SUN Accounts system by parallel running .
19 Mr Cudbird will report to Peter Troughton , managing director of W H Smith Retail , and he will remain on the W H Smith Retail board .
20 otherwise , the camera should normally remain on the Member speaking until that Member has finished ; during Questions the director should show only the Member asking a Question and the Minister replying ; cut-away shots to show reactions would not normally be allowed , except shots of a member referred to by the Member speaking , and medium-angle shots are permitted to show both the Member who has the floor and another Member seeking to intervene ;
21 When the crystal stops growing , because it is removed from the solution , or for any other reason , these steps will remain on the surface and can often clearly be seen in the microscope .
22 She has , however , been informed that she could remain on the RGU staff if she accepted a demotion to ordinary lecturer — the post held by her sister , Mrs Barbara Diack , who , in turn , would lose her job .
23 The decorations will remain on the boards until completion of the town centre scheme .
24 The overhead wires were extended from the South Metropolitan side to just beyond the change point , making a section of dual equipped road , on which through cars would use the overhead wires and cars terminating would remain on the conduit .
25 He hoped Great Britain would support Austria-Hungary against Russia and that Germany could remain on the fence .
26 He would remain on the sidelines , and do some more work if and when they were ready to launch the paper .
27 The harem system requires , of course , that a large number of males are unlucky in the breeding season and must remain on the fringe of the reproductive groups .
28 By definition , the weapon has not been discarded , as it will remain on the statute book , with the renewal of the order , in terms of the life of the statute .
29 We are determined that it will remain on the statute book for use if and when it is necessary to be used . ’
30 He proposed a reduction in the State President 's powers , and reaffirmed that while the Separate Amenities Act would be repealed in 1990 , and the Group Areas Act replaced with a non-discriminatory law the following year , other apartheid legislation would remain on the statute book until a new constitution was drawn up .
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