Example sentences of "to remain [prep] the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ward nurse may be asked to remain with the patient until fully anaesthetized . |
| 2 | No action need be taken where the allowance is to remain with the husband and whatever arrangement is chosen will apply for future tax years until the allocation is changed . |
| 3 | The common solution is for both creditors and debtors to be excluded from the sale and to remain with the vendor as this is to the clear advantage of the purchaser . |
| 4 | As leader of the militant Ulster Unionists he not only voiced the six counties ' wish to remain under the King and the Parliament at Westminster , but organised a large force of Ulster Volunteers , for whom arms were landed in 1913 . |
| 5 | They aim to make it possible for those opposed to remain in the Church and be able to operate . |
| 6 | After some consideration it was unaminously agreed to remain in the church and to take means of getting the church heated and made otherwise comfortable . " |
| 7 | The product does not have to remain in the packaging and the mere possibility of someone having tampered with the goods is not sufficient to exonerate the defendant . |
| 8 | Bridbury also suggests , from the admissions to the freedom of the boroughs , that the ranks of the citizens were being widened , and that even at a time when rural conditions provided more incentive for men to remain in the country than at an earlier date the towns were still able to attract them ( 61 , pp.62–4 ( Tables , 65–9 ) ) . |
| 9 | The other 132 were senior state employees responsible for the management of public funds , who were required to remain in the country until a routine administrative review was performed by government auditors . |
| 10 | Those who had been in Italy before the end of 1989 and who registered within an appointed time limit were to be allowed to remain in the country and would be granted rights to medical care , schooling and equality of opportunity in relation to employment . |
| 11 | ‘ The night flight to Beijing makes everything we have said about our disgust and revulsion at the Chinese Government 's action into empty words , ’ complained a congresswoman , Ms Nancy Pelosi , sponsor of the law vetoed by President Bush , which would have allowed Chinese students to remain in the US after their visas expired . |
| 12 | He ordered a dozen men to remain in the house whilst the rest of the company set about the business of rousing the neighbourhood with enquiry . |
| 13 | There would then follow a transitional period of up to five years during which " matters arising " from secession would have to be resolved , such as the status of USSR military facilities on the republic 's territory , ownership of economic plant and infrastructure , material and financial settlements ( including compensation to citizens wishing to remain in the USSR and therefore requiring resettlement outside the seceding republic ) , and the status of any territories ceded to the republic after its original accession to the Soviet Union . |
| 14 | He seemed to want to try to remain in the underworld while still reaching out for life 's little comforts and luxuries . |
| 15 | Accepting that " if the Slovaks want to live in an independent state , they have the right to do so " , he said nevertheless that he saw " no indication " that a majority of Slovaks wanted to secede , and he urged them to remain within the federation and not to succumb to " nationalist narrowmindedness " . |
| 16 | He could not for the life of him understand why they should wish to remain inside the cottage while the Domain was dusted with poisons . |
| 17 | Insisting that the Platform was not fighting against the party but rather for its " democratic renewal aimed at adapting it to a multiparty system " , Shostakovsky called on Platform supporters to remain inside the CPSU until after the congress ( a view endorsed on April 12 by leading radical Boris Yeltsin ) , and criticized a call made by fellow Democratic Platform leader Igor Chubais on April 11 for Platform supporters to resign their CPSU membership immediately . |
| 18 | She took care to remain on the threshold while he did so . |
| 19 | Both at home and at school they usually have to remain on the floor and Alice does n't always remember to put them back in the bag . |
| 20 | Tory vice-chairman Andrew Mitchell has written to all candidates asking if they want to remain on the list and requesting a new CV . |
| 21 | Foinavon had been trained by Tom Dreaper in Ireland for Arkle 's owner Anne , Duchess of Westminster , but while in Dreaper 's charge had been notable mainly for his extraordinarily laid-back demeanour : in a chase at Baldoyle he was in the lead when falling at the third fence , throwing Pat Taaffe well clear , but Foinavon did not bother to scramble to his feet , preferring to remain on the ground and pick quietly at the grass beside him . |
| 22 | For example : I expect her to obey me when I make a reasonable request or command , so that , if ( say ) I ask her to remain at the table until she 's finished her meal , she does so without endless arguments or fits of temper . |
| 23 | ‘ I would consider it my duty to remain at the salon until you had found a suitable replacement for me , ’ she said primly . |