Example sentences of "remains are " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Of course , the rocks that contain abundant plant remains are mostly those which were deposited in freshwater lakes , or on deltas , or the fossilized remains of peat beds . |
| 4 | The bodies of dead animals are devoured by other creatures large and small whose excreta and remains are , in their turn , returned to the soil . |
| 5 | It is sometimes claimed that predator assemblages are of little use in palaeoecological interpretation because of this bias , and because they take prey from areas far removed from the place where the prey remains are deposited by the predator . |
| 6 | Although the centre declined by the second century A.D. , due largely to pirate raiding , the Roman remains are considerable . |
| 7 | Now , what I , going to suggest we do , in the fifteen minutes which remains are two things . |