Example sentences of "leaves [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain had beaten Poland 4-3 in the World Championships Pool B in Eindhoven earlier this year , and the loss of a point leaves them with a formidable task against tournament favourites Latvia and Slovakia next week , with only one team qualifying for Lillehammer . |
| 2 | That still leaves them with a significant advantage . |
| 3 | For instead of taking the final explanatory step , he leaves them with an unanalysed notion of class strategy . |
| 4 | He leaves them in the open pasture says Jesus , he leaves them in the wilderness and goes after the one which is lost until he finds it . |
| 5 | The best players in the world have been here this week and it leaves me on a high note . ’ |
| 6 | They do n't really contribute as much as they could , so that leaves me with an awful lot of space . |
| 7 | Now coming back to the objective I say it leaves you on a high note then rather than the and that 's all I 'm gon na say tell them what you 're gon na tell them then tell them then tell them what you 've told them . |
| 8 | This leaves you with a working variometer but without total energy . |
| 9 | You will then be visited about every five days by a nurse who collects the milk and leaves you with a fresh supply of bottles . |
| 10 | The barge carrying the body springs a leak , his ceremonial uniform is soaked as he frantically bales , he worries about the expensive watch which he has inadvertently left on the coffin , the ceremony leaves him with a bad cold which he tries , not altogether successfully , to hide when he is presented to the King . |
| 11 | And as if to point up this change Bukharin declared , ‘ Our Red Army , which is to an enormous extent composed of peasants , is the greatest cultural machine for the re-education of the peasantry , which leaves it with a new mentality . ’ |
| 12 | But the North 's recent comb-out of traditional industries leaves it with an imbalanced legacy and serious economic handicap . |
| 13 | That still leaves it with the human problem of what to do about its many customers , the sizeable backlog of orders they have created and the delays they face . |
| 14 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 15 | He leaves it to the local man : the local man , whose tremulous reliance on a few patented drugs Hamilton observes with a speechless sneer . |
| 16 | swoops his hand away , leaves it on the choppy scales . |
| 17 | It leaves it in an indefensible position . |
| 18 | I mean I think you know , to talk about it in , in terms such as you , I mean quite rightly , you 've done so , erm , leaves us with no real impact er , argument . |
| 19 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
| 20 | In short , any explanation of " x is greater than y " , it seems , still leaves us with a two-term relation whereas the reductivist , if his argument is going to work , needs a monadic predicate . |
| 21 | But it still leaves us with the crucial problem that Sartre had to solve , namely how to link human consciousness with the processes of history so that the former can be said to be the agent of the latter . |
| 22 | And he leaves us with the teasing comment : ‘ Weizmann 's fermentation process with regard to oil works ; but that , for the moment , is all that can be stated . |
| 23 | Which leaves us with the amazing K-Board and I 've already passed judgement on that ! |