noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
human remains (= the body of someone who has died )
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The police found human remains in the basement.
remains unknown
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The murderer’s identity remains unknown .
skeletal remains
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Police discovered the skeletal remains of a corpse buried near the river.
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.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
archaeological
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Patterns made in fields by the tracks of heavy machinery also frequently resemble patterns associated with archaeological remains .
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The objective is to provide facilities for the investigation and recording of archaeological remains prior to development.
human
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This facial reconstruction is used by police when they're trying to identify human remains .
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Piece of blue polythene sheeting used to carry coals also discovered close to scene of fire where human remains found.
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So long as the human species remains at once sentient and vulnerable, fear will influence thoughts and actions.
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The human remains that would be discovered over the next fifty years brought the death toll to nearly five hundred.
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This has led to controversy, particularly as regards the date of fossil human remains from California.
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Searchers on Friday recovered human remains among the wreckage.
organic
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Copper can favor the preservation of organic remains , perhaps by preventing the activity of destructive micro-organisms.
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Climate plays an important role too in the preservation of organic remains .
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But there are no organic remains of any kind.
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All over the world, rocks of this antiquity were carefully searched for organic remains .
skeletal
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Occasionally the silica-rich skeletal remains of single-celled marine organisms, diatoms, and of sponges occur in pottery.
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In shallow marine sediments from anywhere on the present Earth one might expect to find the skeletal remains and teeth of sharks.
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Her skeletal remains were found then.
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Excavators have found skeletal and cremated remains in some megalithic structures, but by no means all.
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The handprints on the walls match the size of hands from skeletal remains of Paleolithic women.
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The remains , however, appear to be little more than hair and fragments of flesh covering ghastly skeletal remains.
■ NOUN
fact
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Only one certain fact remains with her.
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Can't explain. Fact remains , they do.
question
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The question remains , however, one of translating local performance into national success.
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The question remains in both legends equally, nevertheless, as to where virtue ends and vice begins in such pious adventures.
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The broader and more difficult question remains .
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Which is not the same thing as saying they don't exist: the question remains open.
■ VERB
contain
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Many birds of prey regurgitate pellets which contain the indigestible remains of their prey, including much of the bone.
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A plastic bag containing some of his remains was found two weeks later at Reigate.
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Three dates with ages of between 98,000 years and 105,000 years were obtained for strata containing Neanderthal remains at Tabun.
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Usually each pellet contains the remains of only one individual.
discover
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The man's body was discovered among the remains of a burnt out cottage.
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Other relics have been discovered , like the remains of a possible Saxon building.
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Yet further down he discovered the remains of a Neolithic hut.
find
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Archaeologists claimed to have found the remains of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, where Hamlet was given its first performance.
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In shallow marine sediments from anywhere on the present Earth one might expect to find the skeletal remains and teeth of sharks.
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But an examination of the wreck by remote-controlled cameras failed to find any human remains or personal effects.
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Excavators have found skeletal and cremated remains in some megalithic structures, but by no means all.
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Here he found remains of structures for rendering blubber into whale oil.
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In the wall, he found the remains of a cat who had been missing for more than a year.
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Firemen found the charred remains of the two sisters as they sifted through the debris.
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Here are found his remains , arranged in a simulated figure that is covered by an Augustinian habit.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
it remains to be seen
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"What is your next film going to be about?'' "Well, that remains to be seen.''
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It remains to be seen how many senior citizens will actually benefit from this new plan.
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What remains to be seen now is whether it is too late to save the rainforests.
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Whether the team can sustain its winning streak remains to be seen.
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And it remains to be seen if re- signing Greg Vaughn will be a hit or a miss.
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But it remains to be seen whether that will prove a significant omission.
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But it remains to be seen whether this will exacerbate chronic unemployment or solve it.
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Steel will make it remains to be seen.
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The meaning of prevention in the new Children Act is multifaceted and it remains to be seen how it will be operationalized.
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Today it remains to be seen whether Museveni's essentially centralist approach will be more successful than its predecessors.
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Whether I reach it remains to be seen!
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Yet it remains to be seen how strong are the forces of Euro-scepticism in Labour's own ranks.
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.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A special chapel was built to house Spencer's remains .
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The architect's remains are interred in St Paul's cathedral.
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These rocks contain the fossilised remains of extinct animals.
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They found the remains of a young woman under the floor boards.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A plastic bag containing some of his remains was found two weeks later at Reigate.
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Before me were the remains of an impromptu wedding breakfast.
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In shallow marine sediments from anywhere on the present Earth one might expect to find the skeletal remains and teeth of sharks.
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They also direct preparation and shipment of remains for out-of-State burial.
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This facial reconstruction is used by police when they're trying to identify human remains .