Example sentences of "leave of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all see with one pair of eyes , Raskolnikov 's , when the visual field narrows upon the back of an old woman 's head , her hair ‘ thick with grease , twisted into a rat's-tail plait and gathered up under what was left of a broken horn comb which stuck out at the nape of her neck ’ . |
| 2 | I lay with my feet toward the open end of the tent , unfastened my canteen and boiled what was left of a cabbage I had bought in Adrar . |
| 3 | Donald has two seasons left of a £25,000-per-year contract to run at Warwickshire but now finds it clashes with the international programme . |
| 4 | The remains are all that is left of a monastery which was founded early in the 11th century . |
| 5 | Aft of this was what was left of a small radio-room with a man who appeared to be peacefully sleeping leaning forward on folded arms , the fingers of one hand still on a transmitting key . |
| 6 | There are some unusually good things to see inside the church of Saint-Savin : a ‘ Eucharist tower ’ twenty feet and three storeys high , Gothic in style , and made of gilded wood ; two primitive fifteenth-century panels , each containing nine scenes from the life of the church 's name-saint ; a Renaissance organ carried on what is left of a wooden gallery that once ran right across the church , from transept to transept — on the front of the instrument are three articulated mascarons , which moved their eyes and tongues as the organ played , in representation of wretched earthly sinners , grimacing at the intolerable sound of joyful , heavenly music . |
| 7 | Er it was known by archaeologists and the Royal Commission of Ancient and Historical Monuments had done a survey , but it had only done a very brief survey , and they said this is part of something left of a medieval building here . |
| 8 | Today no-one — with the possible exception of members of his family - seriously believes that Wallenberg is still alive somewhere in what is left of the Gulag Archipelago , four and a half years into perestroika . |
| 9 | Built by Colla MacDonnell in the sixteenth century , it clings to a narrow promontory , and although there is not much left of the castle itself , its magnificent position is worth the long haul back up the cliff path . |
| 10 | Rose gathered up what was left of the sandwiches of tinned salmon and sardines . |
| 11 | The big regatta dances in the huge grey tent down by the quay in Carrick were just beginning but there were so few days left of the holiday that Maggie preferred to spend them about the house chatting with Rose or her sisters around the fire or talking with Michael out in the front garden among his flowerbeds ; and sometimes during long breaks in the rain they would go out to where Moran was tidying up in the meadows . |
| 12 | The storm rages through what is left of the night . |
| 13 | What was left of the three dead ones was by the fence . |
| 14 | Jos said to Mungo , breaking what was left of the ice . |
| 15 | Such colour as there was drained from her face , and what was left of the biscuit fell from her hand . |
| 16 | All that was left of the monastery founded by St Patrick was a large stone Gothic doorway standing up on its own surrounded by grass and modern graves . |
| 17 | Something snapped inside her and she found herself grabbing the mutton and wresting the plate , with what was left of the uncut joint still on it , and running with it from his crazed presence . |
| 18 | He then expends so much of his emotional energy wallowing in the aura that when the gun goes for the start there 's nothing left of the real thing . |
| 19 | That price is too high and it may be destroying what is left of the game . |
| 20 | And by 1830 in France the two currents had parted — the powerful and propertied recognized the unpropertied as a graver threat than what was left of the old order . |
| 21 | Doubly fortunate is the journalist who can within 24 hours leave Beirut and look upon what is left of the world Damiani lost on that April day when the Argentina sailed out of Jaffa harbour for Beirut , carrying his family from Palestine for the last time . |
| 22 | It is the Armenians who live in what is left of the Armenian Republic — in the Soviet Republic of the same name — who perhaps have the only fragile opportunity of one day restoring their nation ; just as the Arab inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza Strip are now the only Palestinians to be able to fight with any effect for their statehood . |
| 23 | ‘ Dinner will be served at the usual time and I am pleased to say there will be no discernible traces left of the recent occurrence by that time . ’ |
| 24 | This last phrase — ‘ no discernible traces left of the recent occurrence by that time ’ — my father would repeat with a laugh and shake his head admiringly . |
| 25 | Romney Marsh is shared by Kent and Sussex ; what is left of the great moss system of the Mersey valley is carved up between Lancashire and Cheshire and the urban authorities of Manchester , Liverpool , and Warrington . |
| 26 | Moreover , the Council itself was widely regarded as dangerously left-wing , dominated not just by teachers , but by teachers acceptable to the furthest left of the teachers ' unions , the NUT ( itself then containing large proportion of primary school teachers , without university connections ) . |
| 27 | The pale faces on the station and the millions of identical ones behind them were all that was left of the world . |
| 28 | He poured what was left of the hot water from the kettle into it , then pressed the cork firmly down into the opening with the palm of his hand . |
| 29 | Similar strata occur in what is left of the Westphalian Coal Measures : in addition to the effects of the present cycle of erosion , the Westphalian and some of the older strata in many of the fault blocks have been removed by erosion beneath the Hercynian Unconformity . |
| 30 | Yet in fact the principle at stake is quite a different one : these texts are dealing with a special type of trust of the residue of an estate , under which a trustee was requested on his death to hand over whatever was left of the estate he had inherited . |