Example sentences of "remained for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , as one of his prose pieces of the period reveals , the desert remained for him not only a place of death , but also a place of Christian triumph . |
| 2 | Initially there had been a substantial market for British films in the US , where demand remained for some time ahead of the production levels achieved by American filmmakers . |
| 3 | It only remained for us to forgive one another , and for my part I gladly forgave him for anything that might still need forgiveness . |
| 4 | Within these walls ( and contemporary writing says they were formidable ) , the city remained for two centuries . |
| 5 | Within a few years , he had sold on to George Ford , in whose family the mill remained for over 30 years . |
| 6 | There I remained for five years , going on to Theology after History . |
| 7 | After an unorthodox early career — involving various forms of school work , including ( so he was fond of saying ) running a pub — he became in 1940 Chief Education Officer for Hertfordshire , where he remained for seventeen fruitful years . |
| 8 | ‘ Fine streaming ’ — the allocation of pupils , according to their general ability , to classes in which they remained for all subjects — declined in favour . |
| 9 | The doctors diagnosed that he had probably had a left-sided embolic stroke , and decided that he did not need surgery , so he was treated on the medical ward , where he remained for about seven months . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister said that it remained for him to wish his colleagues all good fortune in the difficult but hopeful situation which they had to face . |
| 11 | Coleridge 's headlong arrival into the lives of William and Dorothy Wordsworth remained for them all a charged and exhilarating memory . |
| 12 | Mr Coulter , a member of Thomas Street , retired as Captain after four years but remained for several more years as Lieutenant . |
| 13 | Karelius remained for a few moments gazing out into the night , taking in the mighty fires and flares , and the cries of ‘ l'Empereur ! ’ mingled occasionally with snatches from the Carmagnole , Père Duchesne , and other patriotic songs . |
| 14 | It only remained for Terence Higgins ( Worthing ) to wrap up Serpell in moth balls , where it will remain until at least after the next election |
| 15 | It remained for one of the great investigators of the Laboulbeniales to settle the question of their true affinities . |
| 16 | Born at Cardross , Dumbartonshire , he lost his hearing in infancy through illness and was admitted at the age of 8 into the Glasgow Institution for the Deaf and Dumb where he remained for seven years . |
| 17 | No way of retreat , and no safe base , now remained for the remaining Spaniards and their Scottish allies . |
| 18 | ‘ In the post-war years ’ , wrote Randolph 's son , ‘ Randolph remained for ever in debt because of his determination to live in the grand style to which he had allowed himself to become accustomed . ’ |
| 19 | It is interesting to see the gravestones of the numerous people who came here for a cure for consumptive diseases and remained for ever . |
| 20 | The municipal coat of arms and fleet numbers remained for the time being . |
| 21 | In 1754 Ramsay was again in Italy , where he remained for three years , developing the wonderfully delicate style of his maturity , and constantly drawing from life with all the avidity to learn of a student . |
| 22 | From my own experience and that of others , I knew that books about miscarriages of justice were always published in a kind of limbo where they remained for months if not years , totally ignored by those authorities whose business it was to evaluate and act on them . |
| 23 | The train braked to a shuddering halt at the Paisley signal box where it remained for the next thirty minutes whilst the driver and guard proceeded to examine the underside and topside of the train . |
| 24 | All that remained for theory was to explore the details of determination while avoiding the tendency of bourgeois ideology to obscure determination by the material base . |
| 25 | It only remained for him to make his departure from Bec as acceptable as possible to the monks and to himself , and to face the consequences . |
| 26 | In all the most important affairs of life , liberty remained for him what it had been for the last thirty years , a state of will which could not depart from rectitude . |
| 27 | He then became professor in Basle , where he remained for the rest of his long life . |
| 28 | Six months remained for the building to be finished . |
| 29 | As was intimated in the introduction , although there is little evidence to suggest that sexual behaviour changed greatly in the period , the feeling remained for many people at the time that this was nevertheless what was happening . |
| 30 | The Virginia Company had itself produced a subsidiary company which occupied the islands at first known officially as Somers Islands — though when Shakespeare wrote The Tempest some people already called them the Bermoothes , and Bermuda it remained for posterity . |