Example sentences of "left [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lice can be cleared best with special lotions which evaporate on contact with the scalp and should be left on for 12 hours before shampooing away . |
| 2 | The ethnographer 's conventional notepad can be obtrusive , yet when time in the field extends to a full eight-hour shift , it is impossible to dispense with it , for without notes one is left only with general impressions recorded at the end of the day or fragmentary notes recorded surreptitiously ; yet to use a tape-recorder would have been more obtrusive . |
| 3 | And in some cases there is support for more elaborate reforms to ensure that social welfare considerations are given appropriate weight in decision making and are not left merely to managerial discretion . |
| 4 | Probably the extra words are left in by most draftsmen because of understandable caution . |
| 5 | Our practice for rest days was to find a safe harbour for the ship where she could be left alongside with two standby crew on board while the rest of the lads went home . |
| 6 | The government spends money on public goods because there is a market failure when public goods are left entirely to private markets . |
| 7 | The results of this measure were that 50 per cent of total manufacturing activity ( measured by value added ) was left entirely in Nigerian hands . |
| 8 | But in the artificial , unrelenting competitive world of perpetual travel and token nods across the net , there is n't too much time — or inclination — left over for real friendship . |
| 9 | But in the artificial , unrelenting competitive world of perpetual travel and token nods across the net , there is n't too much time — or inclination — left over for real friendship . |
| 10 | Recent research ( by Don Walz in the U.S.A. ) shows that the black pigmentation uses so much protein that there may be insufficient left over for normal growth and health . |
| 11 | Other large proportions go to space and civil aviation , leaving little left over for industrial R&D . |
| 12 | Whatever your circumstances , the point is that you should have enough money coming in in the Income column to meet the outgoings in the Expenditure column with , hopefully , a bit left over for rainy days and holidays . |
| 13 | In a class where almost half the time is spent on administrative matters , the time left over for active engagement in learning tasks is severely curtailed . |
| 14 | If , however , a relatively minor matter is left over for later agreement it does not necessarily follow that there is no contract . |
| 15 | But for farmer Charles Peers the amount of straw he can sell is just a fraction of what 's left over after each field is harvested . |
| 16 | When there were still twenty square miles of maps left over after all the available floor was used up , she created a curtained alcove into which the jigsaw could extend . |
| 17 | Brown parcel paper , the back of wallpaper left over from that last bout of home decorating , or drafting paper would be ideal . |
| 18 | I 've still got 300 sets left over from that job lot I got the other Christmas . |
| 19 | Left over from that encounter and resolved later in the session was the eventual agreement by the CNAA to the Course being offered on a mixed mode and part-time basis . |
| 20 | Her wig is made up of bottle tops , left over from ordinary twentieth-century life , trodden into the dirt underfoot , pressed on to noticeboards . |
| 21 | Unlike though it seems the horsetails are plants left over from prehistoric times , having survived almost unchanged for hundred of millions of years , judging by the evidence of fossil remains . |
| 22 | Sponge cake left over from millions of nursery teas usurped the place of sponge fingers and the little bitter almond macaroons called ratafias . |
| 23 | The pulp , or bagasses , left over from this process is then burnt to produce electricity which at present fuels only the distilleries themselves . |
| 24 | Compasses capable of drawing arcs of this size are rare , so I used a thin strip of 7x1mm mahogany I had left over from some modelling , it 's available at most model shops and is excellent stuff , if a trifle expensive . |
| 25 | Unless it was the flowers left over from some recent wedding — a country wedding — meadow and hedgerow flowers with huge sprays of beech leaves , creamy cow parsley mixed with great white daisies and lilac . |
| 26 | ‘ No doubt — and we have our old solitary Father Christmas left over from several years ago . ’ |
| 27 | But within days ( i ) a bill arrives for £2.5m to pay off the former DLO employees ; ( ii ) the borough treasury suddenly lights upon a £6.5m deficit left over from 1987-88 ; and ( iii ) up pop £21m of debt repayments , mostly the result of deferred-payment agreements — glorified hire purchase — entered into when Whitehall started rate-capping in the mid-1980s . |
| 28 | They were left over from last night . ’ |
| 29 | You are faced with half a packet of dusty dried peas , the unopened naan bread mix that seemed such a good idea at the time and the smoked oysters left over from last year 's Christmas hamper . |
| 30 | We 've even got one of Mum 's home-baked Christmas puddings left over from last year — ’ |