Example sentences of "left open " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you remember , I 'd had trouble enough when I was fifty convincing people to take me on and now at fifty-nine or sixty there were hardly any employment opportunities left open to me . |
| 2 | Shastri and Navjot Sidhu continued to enjoy both good fortune and the spaces which Gooch 's attacking field left open . |
| 3 | He left open the possibility that Girobank , recently privatised , could be made responsible for collecting repayments and chasing defaulters , the number of whom could rise significantly above the Government 's current estimates . |
| 4 | In January 1969 , O'Neill took the only course left open to him : he went to the country to seek a mandate for his policies . |
| 5 | But he left open the option of serving as Mr Clinton 's vice-presidential running-mate in the general election against President Bush . |
| 6 | Three small windows — and the door left open — make the room light . |
| 7 | [ Betty ] Sinclair adopted a ‘ cross that bridge when we come to it ’ attitude , which means that she wants the back door left open for a sell-out . |
| 8 | No window left open , and it is in a terrible state of anxiety . |
| 9 | In addition the USSR left open the possibility that its oil supplies to Eastern Europe might be cut again following a 10% fall since 1982 . |
| 10 | The rich could afford stone memorials , exquisitely carved , but the graves of the poor were not even properly dug , shallow holes which scarcely concealed their dead , left open to scavenging dogs and other creatures . |
| 11 | We 've one course left open . |
| 12 | The fact that her husband had fitted an electric light inside the cupboard made no difference at all ; it was the thought of being within that cramped space — even with the door to the hall left open — that Sylvia could not bear . |
| 13 | Let us pass the word along and come together to fight in the only way left open to us — the way the church has always been meant to fight — behind enemy lines . |
| 14 | Given the remaining time left open for consultations within the professions and the time needed to enact rule changes , the requirement is unlikely to reach the statute books before 1990 . |
| 15 | It will be ideal if you can park the car in such a way that the dog can move in and out as it wants , with the door left open , although clearly this will not be possible unless you have a driveway with a gate at the end . |
| 16 | FOLLOW-UP to their club congenial ‘ Pot Of Gold ’ ( there 's a remix around well worth picking up ) , ‘ Mixed Moods ’ contains four variations on a theme crafted around a gorgeous string-infected format , of which some will be more effective earlier in the evening whilst the remainder will nurse any wounds left open from the evening 's proceedings . |
| 17 | Tivoli Systems Inc , Austin , Texas , is racing to fill the systems management void left open by the Common Open Software Environment alliance at UniForum . |
| 18 | Tivoli Systems Inc , Austin , Texas , is racing to fill the systems management void left open by the Common Open Software Environment alliance at Uniforum . |
| 19 | There was only one strategy left open to him . |
| 20 | The doors of the houses were closed and the shutters left open just enough to allow some fresh air to penetrate the rooms . |
| 21 | She wore her swimsuit , with a plastic mac , left open , on top of it , dark glasses , several strings of plastic popper beads , and a pair of fluffy pink mules abandoned by Victorine to their dressing-up box . |
| 22 | The gate left open , and the fertile Scarabae seed , better at inbreeding , sown in one of five vortices of ecstasy . |
| 23 | The broad definition of a ‘ base ’ contained in such statements left open the possibility that a settlement of the Afghan conflict along Soviet lines would involve not only the retention of Soviet military advisers but a Soviet-DRA agreement on granting the USSR some form of military base rights in Afghanistan following the withdrawal of Soviet troops from that country . |
| 24 | This requirement is appropriate in a Public Order Act , and resolves the point left open by the court in Ambrose . |
| 25 | It was held that the words used were incapable of being insulting ( even though they were rude and offensive ) , and the Court left open the question currently under discussion . |
| 26 | Apart from the inherent improbability that the Lockerbie investigators never thought to ask for it , that it was left to a clerk to print out a copy on her own initiative before the computer wiped the record , only to return weeks later from holiday to find that still no one had asked for it , and that the BKA , after being given the list , sat on it for months before passing it along to the Scottish police , there remained the problem of the FBI teletype which left open the possibility that no such bag from Malta was ever loaded on Flight 103 . |
| 27 | Into No. 22 , the front door left open wide by Mrs Brocklebank in her flight , then to the dining-room . |
| 28 | ‘ And I 'm going to sue Parson Marr for that hole what he left open . ’ |
| 29 | Deeply suspicious of his motives , she treated him with all the most obvious display of distrust of which she was capable , but her efforts seemed to leave him cold , so she decided there was only one course left open to her . |
| 30 | The declaration left open the possibility of bilateral aid , and the West German government subsequently pledged a loan package amounting to US$3,100 million in advance of the Gorbachev-Kohl summit on German reunification in Moscow later in July [ see pp. 37659-61 ] . |