Example sentences of "remained in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stores remained in the doldrums , with the latest retail sales figures confirming the difficulties of the high street . |
| 2 | Britain 's share of taxation as a proportion of GDP has remained in the middle for the range of OECD states . |
| 3 | Nicholas Edwards at the Welsh Office , George Younger at the Scottish Office , and Mrs Thatcher herself had remained in the same posts since May 1979 . |
| 4 | With Lord Hailsham 's retirement as Lord Chancellor in 1988 , Mrs Thatcher alone had remained in the same post and only Peter Walker , George Younger , and Sir Geoffrey Howe had been in the Cabinet continuously . |
| 5 | Horse-racing , a sport that had largely remained in the hands of the aristocracy and which was the object of criticism from bourgeois ideologues and socialists alike , grew rapidly in popularity . |
| 6 | As most of the original windows were located quite high in the side elevations of the chapel , they could become low-level windows lighting the new upper storey , and space enough remained in the formerly imperforate lower-level panels of the side walls to introduce new ‘ tripartite ’ windows sited vertically below the original openings in order to light the rooms of the lower storey . |
| 7 | He had remained in the tree for a long time , cramped and a little nervous , yet totally fascinated . |
| 8 | In Wiltshire , after the declaration of the Forest bounds at the Salisbury Forest Eyre in 1330 , scattered areas of demesne lands and woods alone remained in the forest : Savernake was reduced from an estimated ninety-eight square miles to a mere thirteen , and by 1331 the forest of Chute in that county had been ‘ almost disafforested ’ . |
| 9 | There was no quarantine area , so Evelyn simply remained in the female Barracks during the day . |
| 10 | During the plague , the rich people and most of the ministers who had remained in the established church fled from London . |
| 11 | Despite this , it seems that what is now on offer is not the true independence of monetary policy which would come from free competition between different currencies and policies ( whether the currencies remained in the public sector as at present or whether they were in private hands ) , but instead the imposition of one economic and monetary policy by a powerful and unaccountable institution . |
| 12 | By 1839 , only fifteen of Chalford 's mills remained in the wool trade . |
| 13 | The brewery is unique in many respects , especially as a result of the outstanding beauty of its buildings , pond and meticulously maintained surroundings , this being due in no small part to the fact that it has remained in the hands of the Arkell family for well over a century . |
| 14 | One of the oddities of the situation since her ‘ descent ’ was that most of her clothes had remained in the cupboards upstairs , she had felt unable to go and fetch them , and evidently the other two had felt too embarrassed to carry them down , or perhaps had simply not noticed the problem . |
| 15 | In post-war years , the Balloons remained in the war-time green livery long after the single-deckers , and it generally assumed that the 25 Coronations of 1953 were intended to replace them . |
| 16 | Until recently , the issue of high radon concentrations in homes remained in the backgrounds in terms of broad public concern . |
| 17 | The majority of women remained in the ‘ tribal trustlands ’ as subsistence farmers , relying on remittances to supplement their meagre income from farming . |
| 18 | Transcendental Meditation would have remained in the East if Western Christianity had not forgotten the mysticism of meditation . |
| 19 | Forty tablets remained in the bottle . |
| 20 | Rao and colleagues blithely observed that males were sprayed shirtless : females wore light garments and all remained in the cotton fields for 60 minutes after each dousing . |
| 21 | Enough of him had , however , remained in the present to enable him to present a powerful case for the area 's preservation and to prophesy that the objectors would win . |
| 22 | Firm refusals remained in the majority , even after personal visits to owners by Pitt-Rivers ; of the dukes who owned monuments , for instance , Devonshire and Rutland consented but Marlborough , Richmond and Sutherland declined . |
| 23 | The increasing prosperity of those humans that have remained in the countryside is also contributory . |
| 24 | And with the help of naturalists and ecologists ( and some of the best are very much aware of these added dimensions to their subjects ) it becomes possible to do consciously what has so far remained in the instinctive realm . |
| 25 | Cottle might have remained in the Foreign Office as a Balkan expert . |
| 26 | when the wars finished in 1815 , the greater part of the military presence in Sussex was soon withdrawn ; the towers were left to crumble and much smaller garrisons of troops remained in the principal towns , both for ceremonial duties and as a deterrent to the possibility of physical violence among the growing population . |
| 27 | Windows are usually the first things to go in a riot , but medieval glass survived in many of the churches — in St. George 's and St. Martin 's , for example — and Yorkist symbols remained in the windows of St. Mary 's . |
| 28 | It overtook full-service factoring as the most significant activity in 1989 and has remained in the lead ever since . |
| 29 | Critics supported this point of view , but argued that the public interest would have been best served by a company which had remained in the public sector . |
| 30 | Hari had remained in the cemetery long after the few neighbours who had attended Win Morgan 's funeral had gone . |