verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be left/remain undisturbed
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The land is to be left undisturbed as a nature reserve.
go/remain undetected
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Doctors can make mistakes and diseases can remain undetected.
hold/remain steady
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A recent poll showed his approval rating holding steady at 53 percent.
human remains (= the body of someone who has died )
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The police found human remains in the basement.
keep/remain active
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We try to keep the patients active by taking them for a daily walk.
lie/remain dormant
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The seeds remain dormant until the spring.
questions remain unanswered
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Many other questions remain unanswered .
remain a mystery
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What caused the accident remains a mystery.
remain anonymous
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According to one employee, who wishes to remain anonymous , the company engaged in illegal activities.
remain committed
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The government remained committed to the treaty.
remain crucial
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Logging remains crucial to the country’s economy.
remain friends
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We have all remained friends despite some difficult times.
remain in custody
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The judge ruled that Marsh should remain in custody until his sentence.
remain obscure
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The details of his life remain obscure .
Remain seated
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Remain seated until the aircraft has come to a complete stop.
remain unaware
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Most people remained largely unaware of the change to the law.
remain vigilant
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Please remain vigilant at all times and report anything suspicious.
remained adamant
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She begged me to change my mind, but I remained adamant .
remained faithful
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He remained faithful to his principles to the last.
remained intact
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Only the medieval tower had remained intact .
remained loyal
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The army has remained loyal to the government.
remained steadfast
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Dr. Faraday remained steadfast in his plea of innocence.
remained unfulfilled
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His dream of competing in the Olympics remained unfulfilled .
remained...unaffected
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The north remained largely unaffected by the drought.
remains unknown
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The murderer’s identity remains unknown .
remain/stand aloof (from sth)
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Initially, the President remained aloof from the campaign.
remain/stay aloof (from sb)
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They worked hard, but tended to stay aloof from the local inhabitants.
remain/stay at a level
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The fees are likely to remain at current levels.
remain/stay/keep calm
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I tried to stay calm and just ignore him.
remain/stay/keep silent
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She kept silent, forcing Buchanan to continue.
remain/stay/stick in your memory (= be remembered for a long time )
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That day will remain in my memory forever.
skeletal remains
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Police discovered the skeletal remains of a corpse buried near the river.
stand/stay/remain etc on the sidelines
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You can’t stay on the sidelines for ever; it’s time you got involved.
stay/keep/remain awake
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I was tired and it was hard to stay awake.
stay/remain/keep solvent
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I don’t know how we managed to remain solvent.
sth remains a possibility
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War remains a possibility.
tension is/remains high
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After the election, political tension remains high.
the remaining ingredients (= the ingredients that are added later when you are preparing a dish )
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Add all of the remaining ingredients and mix well.
the sole surviving/remaining member/child etc
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His sole surviving child, Mary, succeeded to the throne at the age of one week.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
largely
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This comparison is possible because the list size remained largely unchanged over the two year study.
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The army, on the other hand, has remained largely neutral in the unprecedented fight to force democratic reform from Milosevic.
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However, as no votes have been recorded at these junctures the arithmetic straitjacket has remained largely hidden.
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But as an institution, Congress remains largely detached from foreign affairs.
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The mortality has remained largely unchanged over the decades despite greater public awareness and better diagnostic facilities.
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Derrick Smith, remains largely unknown even on this Marine Corps base where he is stationed.
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It is important to bear in mind that these financial consequences have, until very recently, remained largely hidden.
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Piazza Duomo suffered terribly, although the cathedral itself remained largely intact.
still
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Nevertheless, even allowing for all the frailties of palaeontologists, there still remains a remarkable picture of palaeontological persistence.
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Remnants of the letter still remain on the mountain, which juts from Mission Trails Regional Park.
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Giving priority to developmental work was appropriate in the circumstances of Nottinghamshire in the mid-eighties and still remains so in many respects.
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However, minorities still remain underrepresented among physicians, they wrote.
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There still remains the problem of cause and effect.
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The focus still remains to be made real.
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I detect that some doubts still remain .
there
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He remained there for the start of the 1985-86 campaign, but returned to Arsenal to make 27 first-team appearances.
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Edwin was the only one in the family who felt at home in Los Angeles and remained there .
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Even so there remain causes for concern in the Labour camp.
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However, he feels he is required to remain there because he can not live on his own without a car.
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The Conservative party was returned to office in 1951 and was to remain there until 1964.
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There remains one further complication, greater than all the rest.
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And yet there remains the fact, noted at the outset, that the Act applies to violence and violent threats in private.
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They remained there until they retired to Florida in 1973.
■ NOUN
fact
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The fact remains that because of election by constituency quota the odds are heavily against fair representation for a small party.
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But the fact remains that Bush's gains are ill-gotten.
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Still, the fact remains that Tolkien did produce a narrative of entrelacement.
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For the fact remains that none of this is possible.
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The fact remains that any legal regime which lowers the economic incentive for drugs-crime will surely boost drug consumption.
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The fact remains , Snapple has foundered.
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The fact remains that Hera turned Callisto into a bear.
mystery
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How much Crédit Lyonnais is owed by Pathe remains a mystery .
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The culprits remained a mystery yesterday.
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The extent to which Burn, or before him Salvin, was responsible for these remains an unresolved mystery .
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It remains a mystery whether Yeltsin knew about it and was deliberately obfuscating.
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That remains a mystery to him.
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But the vehemence of their hatred remains something of a mystery .
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But the president remains a mystery .
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And yet his emotional life remains a mystery to him.
question
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But even if the proposals prove sufficiently acceptable, important questions of principle will remain unresolved.
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The question then remains: why did the Aristarchian system fail?
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The question remains: What do we put in its place?
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Instead of asking questions , people remain silent.
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A question which remained obstinately hovering in her mind as she slowly slipped into a deep sleep.
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And the big question remains: Why these specific novels?
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Having discarded as inadequate our orthodox rationalisations for meat's culinary centrality, the question remained: why is it so important?
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Who he was, where he had come from, why he was there-all these questions remained unanswered.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb's mortal remains
the fact remains
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I know Benson has a Ph.D., but the fact remains that he has no practical experience.
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The fact remains that without raising taxes we won't be able to pay for any of these programs.
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But the fact remains that the safeguards themselves do not prevent the government using civil plutonium for defence purposes.
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But the fact remains that we are limited to inferring what the experiences of other brains are like from our own case.
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But the fact remains that Wolf and the tendency Wolf represented made an inward-looking discipline possible and, ultimately, respectable.
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But the fact remains: Corn is an inherent ingredient in our traditional larder.
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But, the fact remains that they are.
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Nevertheless, the fact remains that the extent to which they are genuinely accountable locally is entirely within their own discretion.
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None the less the fact remains that the presence of descent groups tells us nothing directly about domestic organization.
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Still, the fact remains that Tolkien did produce a narrative of entrelacement.
there is/exists/remains etc
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Alas, there is no space to give a proper account of the thoughts of these great minds.
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Capital market theory implies that, for index futures, there is a risk premium.
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Each side then loses something if there is an attempt to meet at a mid-point.
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If you do manage to get him to go, there is drug treatment that could help.
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In forecasting the future there is no certainty.
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On one of them, Longstone Island, there is a lighthouse.
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This is a great loss, because at root there is an integral relation between the ideas of crime and morality.
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We have also noted that there is in practice little inter-observer variation in the scoring of verbal responses in these patients.
who shall remain nameless
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My Lover For I will consider my lover, who shall remain nameless .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A few problems remain to be discussed.
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Byrd is likely to lose what remains of his fortune.
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He's decided to remain in his present job for the time being.
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He had finished, but he remained at the microphone for a few minutes, gazing at the audience.
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He was determined to remain out west until he had made his fortune.
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Her unhappy face remained with me throughout the rest of my journey.
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His doctors say this his condition remains the same.
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Not much remained of the house after the fire.
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Sean remained close to his kids after the divorce.
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She remained calm and waited till he had finished shouting at her.
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Sir Rocco Forte will remain as chief executive of the UK hotels company.
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Some 2,000 students, lecturers and university workers remained inside, refusing to leave.
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Some elements of the old class system still remain .
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The children will remain with their mother.
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The computers remained in their boxes until enough money was found to buy the software needed to operate them.
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The details of his death remain a closely guarded secret.
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The judge ruled that Borkin should remain in jail until his case is heard.
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The others were dismissed, but Harwood was asked to remain behind.
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The picture remained with the artist's family for a number of years.
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Two men remain in captivity.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He later became the station's news director, but remained on the air in various capacities.
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My right leg remained shorter than my left by about half an inch.
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She remained standing, evidently not very sure how to begin.
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Therefore she must be prepared to remain single, and accept the social consequences of her decision.
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When he was promoted to deputy chairman of the Plastics Division in 1966 he remained in charge of the film group.
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While an authority's management style is usually affected by environmental factors there always remains an element of choice.