Example sentences of "[noun prp] remain in " in BNC.

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1 He told the King that he would prefer MacDonald to remain in office in order to carry out the necessary programme of economies ; but that if he failed to carry enough of his colleagues with him , then the best alternative would be for MacDonald to head a National Government containing members of all three parties .
2 On June 30 the USA had called for the installation of a transitional government , thus indicating that it would no longer help Doe to remain in power .
3 The letter is about the vexed question of ‘ unmet need ’ and whether to record it and employ extra solicitors or whether to ignore it and allow the DoH to remain in blissful ignorance .
4 Indeed , the Soviet press supported a query by the Indian Foreign Minister , N. Rao , in May 1981 about whether to permit Pakistan to remain in the Non-Aligned Movement with the assertion that ‘ Islamabad 's policy of all possible military rapprochement with Washington and the huge shipments of American arms that have been promised can not help but raise legitimate doubts among many member countries of the Non-Aligned Movement as to whether Pakistan is legally entitled to remain in their ranks ’ .
5 Over-awed , converted both by her persuasion and her gold , Boult remains in prose ( any change would have been too great a transformation ) , yet agrees to help her .
6 There is a good chance of being disturbed by a wandering monster the longer Samson remains in a particular location . )
7 Mohamed Abbad remains in prison with 17 of the original 31 .
8 For the moment , Becky remains in intensive care , after falling from her horse on Saturday .
9 Edward remained in Gascony until the end of April 1274 , fully occupied with the settlement of the case of Gaston VII in which Edward was represented at the Parlement of Paris by one of the best civil lawyers in Europe , Francesco Accursius of Bologna .
10 I turned back to my business , but Miss Kenton remained in the doorway observing me .
11 Meanwhile , troops loyal to Aoun remained in position as Syrian and Lebanese forces under Gen. Emile Lahud pushed into the enclave .
12 However , with Lebanese Forces tanks and infantry surrounding the embassy , Aoun remained in the building as of early November .
13 A Turkish recovery twenty years later re-established Ottoman control south of the line ( Treaty of Belgrade , 1739 ) , but the Habsburgs remained in the Vojvodina , Croatia and Slavonia .
14 Factional fighting resulted in the disintegration of the NNP government in mid-1989 , but Blaize remained in office until his death in December 1989 .
15 Despite the disintegration of the NNP government , due to political disagreement within the NNP , Blaize remained in office until his death in December 1989 .
16 Next morning Shiona remained in bed until she was certain that Jake had left for the office .
17 He also allowed Salan to remain in sole possession of military and civilian authority , and treated him with ostentatious respect and cordiality .
18 The Prime Minister has repeated his plea for Scotland to remain in the United Kingdom warning that independence would lead to bitterness and chaos .
19 Why does Lynch remain in an institution which seems to deny everything he holds dear ?
20 This is far from clear , for the Army at least was prepared to allow the Church of England to remain in being , with bishops deprived of coercive powers .
21 It was the oldest Boeing remaining in existence which made it an historical treasure , and it was an interesting aircraft beyond that because it flew in so many of the old Hollywood movies .
22 The 50 unarmed UN military observers who had been sent to Mogadishu in July remained in the country , although on Aug. 6 they were reported still to be unable to leave their compound due problems of transport .
23 Supplies collected for the charity in Worcester remained in a warehouse in the city , and West Mercia Fraud Squad were asked to investigate the withdrawal of funds from the Worcester branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland .
24 Madrid and the road to Valencia remained in Republican hands , but the Nationalists had pushed the front line forward a few kilometres and were dangerously close to the Madrid-Valencia road .
25 Gustavo de Jesús Gaviria Rivero , 43 , the effective head of the Medellín drug cartel while its leader ( and his cousin ) Pablo Escobar Gaviria remained in hiding to escape an intensive government manhunt , was shot dead by the security forces in a gun battle in Medellín on Aug. 11 .
26 Now eighty-seven years old and recently widowed , Mrs Higby remained in Cleveland .
27 ( Silcott remained in prison , to complete a separate life sentence imposed in 1986 for an unrelated murder committed in 1984 . )
28 However , a central committee meeting of the ruling Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) on Jan. 21 urged Byambasuren to remain in his post , and on Jan. 22 President Ochirbat refused to accept his resignation .
29 Although Dominique remains in happy ignorance of mechanics , she appreciates the fabled BMW ride , all bumps ironed out by immaculate suspension , reliable road holding and a six-cylinder engine .
30 Initiatives such as the seminar on communication and democracy , which is reported in an article on this page , assume increasing importance as the future of democracy in Zaire remains in the balance .
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