Example sentences of "that [be] left [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If privatisation occurs , will the Government guarantee everything that currently exists , will that be left to the private owners , or will the miners be sold down the river ? |
| 2 | And every residential social worker knows that I am not exaggerating when I say that after a death has occurred — often alone or with one of us holding the dying resident 's hand — the family will descend like vultures , demanding a complete inventory of all their belongings , ransacking their personal clothes for valuables , and insisting on receiving all that is left of the petty cash . |
| 3 | Apart from the finds , these represent all that is left of the excavated site , and so are extremely important ; they also represent the investment in the excavation from a financial point of view , which may have cost a considerable amount of money , and it is therefore usual to duplicate them , storing one copy far away from the original records in case of accidents . |
| 4 | The Ironclaws and the Broken Tooths were all that was left of the countless Orc tribes that had flocked to Gorbad 's banner . |
| 5 | She neither bowed nor smiled and the words were grave but her eyes , he thought , seemed to gather all that was left of the best of the sun . |
| 6 | All that was left of the previous Dutch , English , Spanish and Portuguese contacts was a small Dutch trading station restricted to the island of Deshima in Nagasaki , which remained the only formal Western presence for over 200 years . |
| 7 | ‘ The Liberal party — formed out of the scum and dregs of all that was left in the worst elements of the Whig menagerie . ’ |
| 8 | I wonder if we 've got twenty five pound voucher there would be some oh greed at the front you know , and there was a , all of us attended this meeting and that 's every single person in the building and I bet there was fifteen maximum twenty , that was all that was left in the whole building |