Example sentences of "left in the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When left in the air dough will dry out and models harden .
2 This principle applies in full force in dealing with the harmonic idioms of the present day , in which discords are approached and quitted with the utmost freedom , and there is often little or no feeling of resolution at all , for there must always be ‘ part-writing ’ and the notes must ‘ go somewhere ’ and not be left in the air , so to speak , even if the progressions are not in accord with nineteenth-century harmonic notions .
3 I know that everybody involved in the case is conscious that matters should not be left in the air , although the amendment to leave the cost of the .
4 Characters will continue to be received until there are only 15 spaces left in the buffer .
5 The cache system survives , and I 've even added a couple of petrol bombs to one or two of the secret stores , where a likely avenue of attack comes in over terrain the bottles would smash on , but the trip-wires I 've dismantled and left in the shed .
6 Bee stings , which are left in the skin , should be removed with tweezers , then bathed with a teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda in half a glass of water .
7 Fremont , California-based Opus Systems Inc , which has been undergoing the trauma of prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings — a sort of jail sojourn where the keys are left in the door — has announced the SparCard 2+ , its next generation Unix single board computer for plugging into personal computers , offering 25% performance improvement over its predecessor , the SparCard 2 .
8 And been left in the ocean to rot .
9 Of course , by now , there was not much left in the way of cornflakes .
10 That 's one size stockings there 's not much left in the way of them now because most people you know do n't wear stockings , these are pop
11 Top left In the kitchen the 17th-century Italian table draws the eye down to the oak dresser and a splendid Regency portrait .
12 A glass I 'd left in the kitchen in the morning was on the bedside table — with a drop of wine in it .
13 Bread and cheese is left in the kitchen for anyone who is hungry during the night .
14 The first time she discovered the awful mess he had deliberately left in the kitchen , Beth was determined she would not be used as a skivvy .
15 This minimal ‘ equilibrium ’ can be achieved only ( 1 ) at the expense of the resources left in the towns , and ( 2 ) by use of force on the part of the proletarian state .
16 The plant matter , or haulm , will be cut off at ground level and put in the compost bin , and the nitrogen-rich root system left in the soil .
17 Getting the solder of a new fitting to flow can be difficult if there is some water left in the pipe , and it is often easier to replace a leaking capillary fitting with a compression fitting .
18 Cut out the length ‘ b ’ , and remove any copper filings left in the pipe .
19 Slots were left in the floor slab for the steel frame to be bolted down directly into the foundation and then concreted round .
20 ‘ If that piece of land is developed there will be no large open space left in the village except the Green itself .
21 The key had been left in the ignition .
22 Nor do the wages from the plantations compensate the families left in the villages for this loss of labour .
23 For scanning electron microscopy , the tissues were left in the fixative for 3 hours at room temperature .
24 For light microscopic examination , pieces of tissue from the gastric corpus were left in the fixative for three days at room temperature and , after dehydration in a graded series of ethanol , were embedded in Historesin ( LKB , Bromma , Sweden ) .
25 I got up from the grass and made my way back to the orchard as Jerry started to drop his shells in the dust cloud left in the wake of the speeding jeeps .
26 I detest Alvaro Delgado-Gal , who advocates the return of the painting to France , believing that ‘ the glorious dead should be left in the graveyard where they chose to rest ’ ; Juan Pedro Aparicio , who suggests carrying ‘ Guernica ’ in procession all around Spain in a high speed train ; the old anarchist Carlos Semprón Maura , who protests at the Reina Sofía 's injection of morphine into ‘ Guernica ’ to prolong its deep coma ; Joan Barril , for whom the dilemma posed by moving ‘ Guernica ’ from the shrine of the Buen Retiro to an apartment with freezer in the ‘ Sofidou ’ could be resolved simply by sending it to Sarajevo , Bangkok or Lima , places where its political message would be more relevant .
27 At the end of the procedure a 10 or 12 French Cope loop drainage catheter ( Cook Urological ) was left in the gall bladder on free drainage .
28 We were left in the waiting room for about three hours before anyone started dealing with us .
29 By the time he died there were no animals left in the yard , nor land to call his own , for it had been sold to the building men , who were throwing up The Courts in order to house the rabble from starving Ireland and those flooding in from all the villages from miles around , all in the hope of being set on and blankets and shawls , everything that would go to cover a human being .
30 When the men were out working in the field , I was left in the yard erm I helped with feeding the milking the cows , feeding the calves and the pigs .
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