Example sentences of "left [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car 's headlights picked out a road sign and she swung slowly left on to the narrow lane indicated . |
| 2 | The light will be left on for the whole time . |
| 3 | It belonged almost in its entirety to Kenneth Horne , around whom the show was built , but there was enough left over for the supporting players , Betty Marsden , Hugh Paddick , Bill Pertwee and Ken , all of whom built up their own individual following . |
| 4 | The idea dates from the 1950s , when it looked as if there would be plutonium left over from the fast-breeder reactors that were being planned — reactors which could produce more plutonium than they consumed . |
| 5 | It smelled damp , and there was the hint of wood smoke , left over from the illegal fire that Charlie had burned in the open grate . |
| 6 | The only possible explanation of this radiation , which corresponds to a temperature of about 3K ( 3 C° above the absolute zero of cold ) , seemed to be that it represented the residual energy left over from the Big Bang . |
| 7 | It would not be a source of comfort to the hardpressed British public if they were to become aware that ( reckoning our overseas statistics globally not a single bean of substance for themselves or of capital equipment for British manufacturers is likely to be left over from the American credit ; and that we shall require , on balance , the whole of it , and , unless we change our ways , much more to feed and sustain Allies , liberated territories and ex-enemies , to maintain our military prestige overseas , and , generally speaking to cut a dash in the world considerably above our means . |
| 8 | He stared steadily outwards towards the ducks and flamingos while Kraal mantled his plumage , let out a harsh call or two and dropped down into the shelter to pick at the remnant of meat he had left over from the previous day . |
| 9 | The museum is also one of the few that is equipped with a full-sized turntable , a left over from the original steam shed on the same site , which is complete and in full working order . |
| 10 | sales that were left over from the open show , three pound thirty fourteen pound ten for the collection , now that is as you see , that is over from last year last year the table show so we actually have double the number of entries on the bench this year which is a healthy sign |
| 11 | The chemicals , including substances such as DDT , long banned in the rest of Germany , as well as formulations never subject to safety testing in the West , are left over from the pre-unification production of East German industries . |
| 12 | The VPE , headed by Solange Fernex , also wants the funds left over from the Presidential campaign of Bruce Lalonde , one of the AT 's leading lights , to go into a common kitty , rather than being set aside for a future bid for power by Lalonde — perhaps in the European parliament elections in 1984 . |
| 13 | But though the machinery of government is developing in this direction , there is insufficient willingness to face the facts , to give up some of the pretences left over from the old period of vigorous , participatory democracy in order to remove the anomalies and rationalize the system . |
| 14 | Beyond stood a rectangular building , the terminal , fabricated from the packing crates left over by the American military from its construction work on the runway . |
| 15 | Rather than go through the entire process again in a later session , it would make more sense to take it up at the point where it was left off in the previous session , if desired . |
| 16 | However , the implementation of the Declaration was left up to the relevant ministers and as of early 1990 political parties , trade unions , strikes , civil marriage , divorce and gambling were still not permitted . |
| 17 | Equally intriguing will be the line-out performance of the young London Irish lock , Neil Francis , who has been left out of the current Ireland squad . |
| 18 | But with India there could be no ‘ consolidation ’ ; its hundreds of millions were , necessarily , left out of the cosy computations of the Imperialists ; and its membership of a community of independent yet united states was beyond the power of imagination to conceive . |
| 19 | A SPANIARD defends his German Masters title this week , after being stung into winning last year when he was left out of the Suntory World Matchplay Championship , while an Australian plays here having sacrificed a lucrative place in this year 's matchplay event , writes Norman Dabrell from Stuttgart . |
| 20 | That Beveridge viewed the elderly with a notable lack of sympathy is evident in the few telling phrases which appeared in the final draft of August 1942 but were left out of the published Report : to give full subsistence pensions ‘ as a birthday present ’ to an individual attaining the age of 60 or 65 would be ‘ reprehensible extravagance ’ which was ‘ wholly unjustifiable ’ . |
| 21 | DeFreitas had been considered fortunate to be selected for the first Test , when he was left out of the original squad but leapfrogged Essex seamer Mark Ilott after Alan Igglesden pulled out injured on the eve of the game . |
| 22 | Women 's experimental art of the seventies was left out of the original choice . |
| 23 | TWO of the top three women in Britain 's national rankings , Sara Gomer and Monique Javer , have been left out of the British team for the European championships which take place in Nantes from November 23 to 26 . |
| 24 | On the other hand there was a powerful body of opinion in the Law Society that employed solicitors should not be left out of the main application . |
| 25 | The Middlesex batsman , left out of the senior trip to India and the ‘ A ’ team tour of Australia , has paid the penalty for two bust-ups with his county and a lack of form in Tests . |
| 26 | A short way out of Pau on the opposite side to Lescar , to the north-east , is Morlaas , a small town that tends to get left out of the local guidebooks as not somehow belonging to the Pyrenees . |
| 27 | Other lesser interests and associations continued to exist but they were excluded from influence in crucial areas of public policy and were left out in the political cold . |
| 28 | At the bottom of Great Brunswick Street , they swung left around by the main entrance to Trinity . |