Example sentences of "[noun] remain be " in BNC.
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| 1 | For their refreshment , to be eaten at their workplace underground , miners carried sandwiches and a metal flask of water or cold tea , and some sweet cold tea remaining was important to John . |
| 2 | The coal char remaining is fed into the fluidized bed system , while the exhaust from the gas turbine can be used to help drive the fluidized bed . |
| 3 | A change of excitation , according to the required direction of rotation , sets the motor in motion and the COUNT of steps remaining is decremented . |
| 4 | Another subject on which intense confusion remains is whether or not the US was ever offered a chance to apprehend General Noriega ( wanted in Florida on drugs charges ) . |
| 5 | To allow savagery to remain is to allow evil to remain . |
| 6 | Their 100 plus points lead is virtually unassailable and the only question remaining is who will be relegated . |
| 7 | A single mole carcase was found in the nest , but otherwise the small mammal remains were all found inside the pellets . |
| 8 | Possibilities remaining were pink , lime green , orange and mauve . |
| 9 | The two ( realistic ) perspectives remaining are positions based respectively in either the author-oriented judgement or in the reader-oriented judgement of the communicative situation ( but not both simultaneously ) . |
| 10 | 7.1 In radioactive decay , after each half-life ( T1/2 ) the number of atoms remaining is halved : if there are A to begin with , after one half-life there will be A/2 atoms remaining ; after two half-lives , A/4 remain ; after three A/8 , and so on . |
| 11 | Although the centre declined by the second century A.D. , due largely to pirate raiding , the Roman remains are considerable . |
| 12 | His interest in Roman remains was minimal , and in any case his ears ( incipient otosclerosis , his personal physician had diagnosed ) seemed to be filling up with thicker and thicker wads of cotton-wool each day . |
| 13 | It never quite recovered from its destruction by Germanic tribesmen in the third century AD and in the medieval period the extensive Roman town remains were used as a quarry-source of building material . |
| 14 | Worse , however , is the fear that what court litigation business remains is being driven South of the Border where courts are believed to move faster . |
| 15 | Even fish remains are rather local , and do not adequately reflect the abundance of a group that has occupied the seas for more than 400 million years . |
| 16 | Anyone moving or laughing is out , and the last person remaining is the winner and probably has the worst sense of humour ! |
| 17 | The particularly wide 95% confidence interval , however , for the difference between the percentage of cisapride and placebo treated patients estimated to remain ulcer free at 55 weeks ( Table IV ) , reflects the inherent inaccuracy of this portion of the survival curve when the number of patients remaining was so small . |
| 18 | What timber remains is probably of 18th century origin when the building was converted into a work-shop and dwelling house for a wheelwright . |
| 19 | The discovery of the St Albans and Bury St Edmunds remains were certainly exciting , especially to the examiners , but they pale into insignificance when compared with the results of the research undertaken after the opening of the coffin of Edward IV ( d.1483 ) in 1788 , the subject of a paper read to the Society of Antiquaries on 26 January 1769 . |
| 20 | While we all coughed and looked at our shoes in embarrassment , the gleaming casket containing Dennis 's mortal remains was spirited away to the nether regions of the crematorium . |
| 21 | They continued to evolve with undiminished vigour through the Tertiary , and their fossil remains are nowhere more abundant than in the ‘ crags ’ of later Tertiary age . |
| 22 | Many of the organisms that left fossil remains were of kinds now extinct , although some , like the trilobites , could obviously be placed into a phylum with many living representatives . |
| 23 | Mangled remains were hurled 500 yards down the road . |
| 24 | Mangled remains were hurled 500 yards down the road . |
| 25 | What station-building remained was increasingly to reflect the functional , geometrical approach , stressing cubes and cylinders and glorying in reinforced concrete . |
| 26 | The only matter remaining was to quantify what was properly due to the receivers as remuneration before bringing the receivership to an end . |
| 27 | In 1934 the Hall Committee made a set of regulations for lending which were stuck in each book on a numbered bookplate ; the highest number remaining is over 800 . |
| 28 | The International Transportation of Human Remains was discussed . |
| 29 | However , microscopic analysis of the soil in a pit can sometimes show what sort of food remains were originally buried . |
| 30 | It is possible to consider a situation where most franchises remain being run by groups of B R managers and a few franchises are run by private sector companies . |