Example sentences of "remain of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Pipewell in Northamptonshire , earthworks remain of the pre-existing hamlet , mixed up with earthworks of the Cistercian abbey buildings . |
| 2 | Only a few capitals and a little of the marble panelling and mosaic remain of the original decoration . |
| 3 | ( c ) The ruined huts are all that remain of the old crofting settlement of Borreraig , an extreme example of the eviction of crofting communities in the 19th century . |
| 4 | At 93 , little remained of the liturgical Hebrew he had studied before the October Revolution , but he was pleased to be leaving his quarrelsome Armenian and Azerbaijani neighbours behind . |
| 5 | They suggested perhaps that more remained of the pre-1979 order than Thatcherite zealots had imagined . |
| 6 | All that remains of the Saussurean model is the primacy of language and an emphasis on the signifier , both of which are even more strongly asserted here than in poetics . |
| 7 | Left , the exterior of The Pen and Parchment , Stratford-upon-Avon : Georgian windows masked by large blinds on the left , with what remains of the Georgian barn on the right . |
| 8 | A manor house remains of the eastern hamlet , but the church of St Peter has been demolished ; part of it remains in the grounds of Castle Combe manor house nearby . |
| 9 | From here we descend to the crypt and find ourselves surrounded by the 11C remains of the Romanesque basilica . |
| 10 | Nothing remains of the original fort , built in 1655 by General Monk to repel Jacobite invaders , but relics of these troubled times can be seen in the public museum . |
| 11 | Nothing remains of the original chapel erected by Zarco . |
| 12 | I 'm greatly encouraged by the recent upsurge of interest in what remains of the Caledonian pine forest ( ‘ Great Wood of Caledon ’ September ) . |
| 13 | From the old way I took the track down to Whernside Manor and Deepdale Methodist Chapel , crossing the road there and taking the path through the woods where a millstone propped against a tree is all that remains of the old mill that once stood here . |
| 14 | ( RB ) INSET : Freames Mill has now one but remains of the old boiler were still visible in 1984 . |
| 15 | Under his leadership , the heavyweight investigative team was to produce reports which were a cross between the old Sunday Times Insight team and the occasional ‘ Shock Issues ’ which are all that remains of the old Mirror . |
| 16 | A tangle of twisted metal is all that remains of the giant oil tank that fuelled the power station at the edge of the Bulmers factory site.It 's believed the man who died was welding a measuring gauge on top of the tank when it exploded , scattering debris over a wide area.The man died before he reached hospital.After the first explosion , there were further blasts creating a pall of smoke over Hereford.Bulmers Director Terry Watts was in an office nearby : |
| 17 | There is a concerted desire to destroy what remains of the referential illusion : what seems ‘ real ’ is immediately transformed into another representation in the form of a painting , a postcard or a film . |
| 18 | Buckley is unrepentant , arguing that what remains of the Scottish coal industry now has a more secure future . |
| 19 | Set in beautiful Downland scenery , Lewes ' attractions include the Norman Castle , Anne of Cleves House and other museums , remains of the Cluniac Priory , and the famous gardens at Southover Grange . |
| 20 | THE SCENE OF DESTRUCTION : Smashed and mangled metal around the battered tailplane is all that remains of the doomed airbus in which 167 people were killed |
| 21 | What remained of the armed independence movement was based in Manchuria , where it later came under communist domination and was headed by Kim Il-sung . |
| 22 | Just in front of it lay what remained of the ancient forum of Roman Beyrutus , three bullet-slashed columns in the middle of the road . |
| 23 | Within 150 years of Osman 's death in 1324 his successors had overrun what remained of the Byzantine empire and had occupied almost all the territory of present-day Yugoslavia which lies south of the Sava-Danube line . |
| 24 | The second picture showed what remained of the wrecked car in Prague , the car which had belonged to Ladislav Sacher . |
| 25 | In the centre of the carbonaceous ball I could discern a small whitish marble which seemed to be all that remained of the original vegetable . |
| 26 | A few miles away , in three directions , lay the crescent islands of Verlaten , Lang Eiland and Rakata , which were all that remained of the original mother volcano 's metamorphosis . |
| 27 | After the first partition of Poland in 1772 Danzig remained independent but tied to what remained of the Polish state by trade and treaty . |
| 28 | The thatch of what remained of the subsided roof was streaked with the dark green of lichen . |
| 29 | We soon came upon a fascinating group of ancient dwellings , all that remained of the old village where the last inhabitants of Rona lived in primitive conditions and awful isolation until their final evacuation in 1844 . |
| 30 | One of the rusting iron pipes fastened to the shed wall and apparently coming from what remained of the old boilerhouse inside , had a plate affixed to it , near the stump of what must have been a water stop valve . |