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Simple sentences
The doctor had to treat a patient in a remote village.
Where's the remote control for the TV?
There is a TV remote control under the couch.
The power plant supplies the remote district with electricity.
The accident occurred in a remote place.
He lives in a farmhouse remote from the world.
She lives a solitary life in a remote part of Scotland.
Hold it, are you kidding me? Why'd we wanna go to such a remote location?
The TV remote control is under the couch.
There's a remote control under the chair.
She was born in a remote village in Nepal.
She leads a solitary life in a remote area of Scotland.
Give me back the TV remote.
Hand me the remote.
Living as I do in a remote village, I seldom have visitors.
The activists were last seen in a remote, forested corner of Brazil.
He sought serenity, closeted in study, remote from the wear and tear of the world.
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I cannot read the writing of a period so remote.
Find somewhere remote and secluded spot where no one has ever heard of your unhappy daughter.
She grew up by remote control.
In several remote places under strict military protection American scientists were developing Process 97 the secret ingredient of the atomic bomb.
Well, it's so remote up there.
Why, this is the most remote, uninhabited place east of the Mojave.
Filled with curiosity about places and people remote from his own experience. he wandered to the half-world of London. the words of Lord Henry vibrating in his mind.
A killer by remote control.
Why so remote, Addison?
Observatories dedicated to the study of astronomy often are set in high and remote places.
But there is none more remote than Mount Kenna Observatory in this part of South Africa.
There is a very remote possibility, that a few people may be saved.
Your talent must not be hidden away in some poor, remote village.
Sounds remote.
You've been promoted. This is such a remote place.
All that keeps me from putting him out is the remote possibility that this man has some disease.
It's an ancient Inca funeral dirge still used by the Indians in the remote Chilean Andes as a chant for the dead.
Quiet and remote, away from everyone.
But top-secret groups like O77. were billeted in remote, country estates where they were held in complete isolation. while awaiting specific assignments.
Hidden away in a remote corner of London. was the headquarters of combat operations of O77.
His America will be as remote from yours.
I might have an idea, a remote idea.
But in the remote possibility that they did. have you ever considered what might become of Lucie and Manfred?
No, he's, um. he's stuck on a remote construction site in Alaska, which, now that I'm saying it out loud.
Some say it's because this remote ancestor of yours who built it was Cuba's greatest slave trader.
You wouldn't be shocked if you heard of it happening in some remote town in Europe somewhere.
You're wonderfully remote from this sort of people.
You're wonderfully remote from this sort of people. I want to help you, Ann.
It sounds remote.
Remote and useful.
No life in me except that life imparted. by a gently rolling ship. remote from all the cares of the people of the land.
Chances of the object striking a large city are remote.
Remote control.
How did he know she had remote control on the TV set?
I mean, how was you to know the remote control?
Ah, they're so remote, the stars. - Hmm.
News and current affairs
Chaos theory in mathematics explains such dependency on remote and seemingly trivial initial conditions, and explains why even the extrapolation of apparently precise planetary motion becomes impossible when taken far enough into the future.
But suppose a two-state solution were achieved in the not-too-remote future.
Be it because of a sovereign default or because of large losses accumulated under complacent accounting rules, the insolvency of a large bank (particularly a European bank) is far from a remote possibility.
A year before, few people considered this world-shaking event even a remote possibility.
If the Constitution is rejected, the British, having chosen to stay out of that grouping, may find that they have maneuvered themselves into an even more remote outer circle of Europe.
In very remote places like Afghanistan or Chad, weak connections with the world economy also delayed the process of social change.
The only alternative to this bleak possibility seems remote today and may never be viable: a single global state in which all children are provided with the same genetic enhancements and the same opportunities for health, happiness, and success.
And it could enable real time, on-demand transport services for remote areas.
MacKay's examples may seem a bit remote to us now.
I learned this first-hand while attending this year's Jackson Hole Symposium in the remote wilderness of Wyoming, where, ironically, there are almost no homes to buy.
As Russia's recent experience shows, creating a politically sycophantic business oligarchy makes the prospect of a market democracy more remote.
Successive French presidents have declared that France will not accept a United States of Europe as even a remote goal of European politics.
Last month, I visited formerly remote areas of the country that are now prosperous as a result of the connectivity - and thus the freer flow of people, goods, and ideas - that such investments have delivered.
I recently visited a remote Dong village in the mountains of Quizho, one of China's poorest provinces, miles away from the nearest paved road; yet it had electricity, and with electricity had come not just television, but the internet.
When he appeared before the British parliament in July, Rupert Murdoch looked like an old man, remote and out of control.
Even if it were a remote possibility, the 2008 financial crisis has taught us that rare events occur.
Green energy, especially wind, can indeed help African countries, for example, get some electricity to remote, rural areas; but the grid will do the most good for the most people.
The impulse simply to cut the Gordian knot of debt by defaulting on it is much stronger when creditors are remote and unknown.
If news outlets in physically remote open societies meet consumers in countries like China halfway, the benefits for both the Chinese and the bottom line could be enormous.
But most Afghans live in remote villages - those in Badakhshan can be reached only after a day's bumpy ride on a donkey.
Suddenly, even remote schools can connect to the Internet and to other schools through a solar panel, low-cost computers, and wireless access.