Example sentences of "to remain [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward Kirk was to remain as Headmaster at Leeds until his death , and was to see his school grow from a small class of 6 pupils on a half-day basis into a fully-fledged school taking in boarders and day scholars with a roll of over 100 children , with a reputation second to none . |
| 2 | Mr Lamont , who will be sipping at the despatch box from Highland Spring water and Highland Park whisky , has broken the traditional Treasury silence in the run-up to the Budget to fight for his political survival by stating publicly he wants to remain as Chancellor . |
| 3 | Perhaps the best part of the 10 day tournament for brothers Cliff and Butch Buchholz , who run the Key Biscayne event , was the decision by Lipton to remain as title sponsors after all , having originally said they would only be a secondary supporter in future years . |
| 4 | Batmonh and Dumaagiyn Sodnom were asked to remain as President and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers ( Prime Minister ) respectively until the Great Hural met . |
| 5 | NEWCASTLE United chairman Sir John Hall last night persuaded Kevin Keegan to remain as manager at St James 's Park until the end of the season . |
| 6 | He was due to remain as leader of the party until a successor was chosen at a leadership convention in Calgary on June 23 , 1990 . |
| 7 | It also suggested that he would be permitted to remain as leader until the completion of his first term in October 1991 , and would possibly achieve a second two-year term . |
| 8 | The vicious personal attack on him by Ernets Bevin and his humiliating defeat made it impossible for him to remain as leader . |
| 9 | " Off duty , " said Bigwig , " and likely to remain off duty . " |
| 10 | In any well-run firm the agreement will not be allowed to remain under lock and key unlooked at and unconsidered for years at a time . |
| 11 | This is because pressed flowers need to remain under pressure at all times , and if left uncovered for too long , they will begin to curl up , thereby ruining your picture . |
| 12 | It expects profitability to remain under pressure , despite recent restructuring actions aimed at achieving $50m in annual cost savings . |
| 13 | Still , that 's what we all go for is n't it , to manfully plough through two foot deep mudholes in our be-trainered feet , to boldly stand in the pouring rain clad in only a T-shirt and to remain under canvas for three days whilst simultaneously holding both the tent and a beer can in a force nine gale ! |
| 14 | But Irish Marine Minister Dr Michael Woods ordered the Celtic Pride to remain in port while surveyors examined the vessel . |
| 15 | As well as establishing reduced overall catch quotas for 1991 ( 93,570 tonnes for cod , 40,500 for haddock ) , they agreed that fishing boats over 100 tonnes in the North Sea and also along the west coast of Scotland , more than 40 per cent of whose catch consisted of cod and haddock , should be obliged to remain in port for eight consecutive days each month from Feb. 1 to Dec. 31 , 1991 . |
| 16 | At a meeting of EC fisheries ministers on Dec. 17-18 to decide on fishing quotas for 1992 , it was agreed to continue the fisheries protection including the measures introduced in 1991 [ see p. 37925 ] under which North Sea fishing boats over 100 tonnes , more than 40 per cent of whose catch consisted of cod and haddock , to remain in port for eight consecutive days each month between Feb. 1 and Dec. 31 , 1992 . |
| 17 | The second part of this study will use a large sample of recent graduates to investigate the individual graduate 's choice to become a teacher or not and the incentive to remain in teaching or to leave the job within the first few years . |
| 18 | The privatization programme envisaged that 25 per cent of state enterprises would be sold by the end of 1992 ; about 25 categories of assets were to remain in state ownership , however , including natural resources and strategic enterprises . |
| 19 | It was , however , often necessary for the owners to cut their carriage rates to remain in competition with the railways . |
| 20 | I then incurred further charges through failing to remain in credit for a full quarter . |
| 21 | Ask the patient to remain in bed , leave him to rest but keep under observation . |
| 22 | He must have wondered what the outcome of it all would be , though he was not to remain in doubt for much longer . |
| 23 | Long calls may also attract females or enable dispersed individuals to remain in contact with a dominant male . |
| 24 | The three partners are to remain in contact to maintain a watching brief and to prepare a document outlining ideas for future management of the property . |
| 25 | It will be always a great pleasure to remain in contact with the spirit of Olivier Messiaen every time I perform his music . |
| 26 | This member is identified as having to move in both the X and Y directions in order to remain in contact with the pin on the horizontal arm of the bell cranks , and also to rotate so that its other end is maintained on the vertical line which describes the allowable movement of the rod member . |
| 27 | Cavity treatment should be delayed for as long as possible to allow the injected solution to remain in contact with blood and other body fluids and care to avoid spillage should be exercised when carrying out drainage . |
| 28 | Technically , unless accepted by the Speaker , a resignation from the Assembly became operative only if approved by the Assembly as a whole , which was due to remain in recess until September . |
| 29 | He pays her to remain in obscurity , fearing she may reveal the respectability of his origins . |
| 30 | In a sign of discontent within the National Party over economic policy and particularly over the budget , two backbench MPs , Gilbert Mylesand Hamish MacIntyre , resigned on Aug. 15 , stating their intention to remain in parliament and to found a new party " that brings honesty back into New Zealand politics " . |