Example sentences of "to remain at [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today he would have liked to remain at Hillmarden for another night , but he had promised Celia he would call in at the clinic on his way back to London , knowing he had a very busy week coming which might make it impossible to see her again until the following weekend . |
| 2 | For twenty-five years Britain took little interest in the outside world and even managed to remain at peace with France . |
| 3 | Nithard puts them in 839 : Charles 's mother , and the magnates who had worked on the will of his father to promote Charles 's cause , fearing that if Louis were to die before matters were settled , they would risk incurring the hatred of Charles 's brothers to their own ruin , advised that the father should choose one of those sons to be his helper so that , even if the others refused to remain at peace after their father 's death , these two at least would have been so firmly united that they would be able to withstand the hostility of their rivals . |
| 4 | 5029 is due to remain at Bury until the end of February , and is subject to a six steamings a month agreement , so it should see extensive use , and provide plenty of opportunities to experience GW ( four-cylinder power in Lancashire ) . |
| 5 | Only a small percentage of black children were able to remain at school beyond primary level . |
| 6 | They recognise the need to provide powerful incentives if students are to remain at school beyond 16 and graduate with a high school certificate . |
| 7 | To create an even greater homogeneity we excluded also all those who were doubly incontinent at referral ( since we know that the project found such people very hard to support ; see Chapter Seven ) , and all those whose condition — either mental or physical — was deemed too poor at referral for them to remain at home at all . |
| 8 | It was suggested in Chapter Four that people who possessed three specific characteristics would have been highly unlikely to remain at home for any length of time . |
| 9 | This table shows that those whom we predicted as unlikely to remain at home for long without project support were in general relatively expensive to care for at home . |
| 10 | Sacher stated that all StB agents and officers had been ordered to hand in all weapons and identity cards , and to remain at home on standby . |
| 11 | She said she 'd realised how tired your parents were becoming and she knew that if she wanted to remain at home on a long-term basis she would have to have some form of respite care . |
| 12 | The Scotsman reported on I September that " members of the Women Compositors " , Readers " and Monotype Operators " Union intend to remain at work in the event of a strike " . |
| 13 | Columbus-America designed Nemo to remain at depths of 1.5 miles for several days . |
| 14 | The rate is expected to remain at 54% until the end of the century . |
| 15 | Then he looked up and said , ‘ Celia , you do n't want to remain at Brentwoods for ever , do you , to have our child turn to some third party for its emotional and creature comforts , to get the odd pat on the head from a parent at six o'clock of an evening ? |