Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] left the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essentially the Finance Act 1986 has left the IHTA 1984 provisions intact but there are a number of changes , the most substantial one being that if an individual gives property to another individual , or an accumulation and maintenance trust , or a trust for the disabled and survives the gift by seven years and the gift is not subject to reservations ( the taxpayer can no longer have his cake and eat it ) no inheritance tax at all is payable . |
| 2 | That has left the impression that trade policy is at the mercy of ad hoc decision-making by a variety of officials . |
| 3 | This has left the armed forces short of modern equipment . |
| 4 | It 's thought the 92 year old had left the gas on … when she went to make a cup of tea the kitchen went up . |
| 5 | It 's thought the 92 year old had left the gas on … when she went to make a cup of tea the kitchen went up . |
| 6 | Although it was estimated that a further 2,000 more police would be needed to cope with rapidly rising crime ( 40,000 more crimes were reported in 1989 compared with 1988 , and there were 100,000 unsolved cases ) , an estimated 3,540 had left the force for more lucrative jobs as security guards . |
| 7 | Schools run themselves some have left the authority , we still have three education sub committees a major education committee , numerous sub groups and working parties and it 's gone time we recognised the changing world and streamlined the members side of the education department in the same way that the officer side 's been streamlined and slimmed down . |
| 8 | United Left was reported on Jan. 7 to have left the alliance although it remained open towards it . |
| 9 | These trends , allied with the increased life expectancy of older people , have combined with the result that children are increasingly likely to have left the parental home to establish an independent household before the death of their parents . |
| 10 | Only one doctor was there , three had left the country . |
| 11 | No matches were found but no data were available on how many had left the state of Florida . |
| 12 | The social worker complained bitterly about the fact that Mrs X had left the home , and told her off . |
| 13 | So far 52 have left the Company with firm departure dates set for a further 62 . |
| 14 | Iron Age tribes , the legions of Rome , the Norsemen and Danes , the monks , and the lay landowners who followed them : all of them , from the great lords and princes of Christendom to the little men who kept their huts on the commons , along with Quakers , Methodists , travelling packmen , lead-miners , quarrymen and rail men , all have left the print of their passing on the land . |
| 15 | Nails was very unlikely to have left the car in the same place ; he never did , it was too inconvenient . |
| 16 | Between 1951 and 1961 , he said , population had increased by 10,000 , but 6,500 had left the city because they were unable to find accommodation . |
| 17 | Even the substantial income tax reductions of 1988/89 have left the total tax burden in 1992/93 at 35.75% , which is higher than when the Conservatives came into office in 1979 . |
| 18 | We know it would have been possible to have left the switch alone but — given a bit of forward planning and some wire — to have completed an ad hoc electrical circuit so that the wipers did start to work , just as and when they did . |
| 19 | A further group of 111 Vietnamese has left the colony , bringing the number of those who have returned under the voluntary repatriation programme this year to 874 . |
| 20 | In the latest edition of The Company Director : Powers and Duties , published by Jordans in association with the Institute of Directors , authors Peter Loose , John Yelland and David Impey lament that ‘ whatever the virtues of its contents , the Companies Act 1989 has left the efforts to consolidate companies legislation in tatters . |
| 21 | The social provision that had been Britain 's thank-offering to an expectant postwar world after 1945 had left the problem of poverty , in some respects , remarkably and alarmingly unaffected . |
| 22 | The top two have left the rest trailing well behind . |
| 23 | Of course , he thought , as he levered the hatch door open slowly , letting more soft light spill out from underneath , he 'd have to cover his tracks in the morning ; damn silly to have left the cupboard back there open , and the light on in the dome . |