Example sentences of "left [adv prt] from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |