Example sentences of "we are leave [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these reports can not now be substantiated ; we are left with the bare fact that she spent the rest of her life in confinement . |
| 2 | We are left with the unrefined definition that pragmatics is concerned with the study of those aspects of meaning not covered in semantics . |
| 3 | Through our misjudgement of their knowledge , metaphor becomes a lie , and we are left with the disturbing conclusion that the truth of a message is something constructed by sender and receiver , and not only as is usually held to be the casea quality of the sender 's intention or the message itself . |
| 4 | Relatively weak description of the ‘ he was very glad of my arrival ’ sort is cut , and we are left with the histrionic handclasp of Stepan Verkhovensky the actor manqué whom no reader of The Possessed will ever forget . |
| 5 | Leaving aside the question of how such a perfect and whole symbiotic relationship could have ever evolved , Darwinian-style and piecemeal , out of ‘ random fluctuations in the DNA of wasp and orchid ’ , we are left with the interesting observation that the mind structure , or instinct , of the wasp is organized in such a way that it instinctively seeks this particular shape , for the purposes of fulfilling its urge to mate . |
| 6 | We are left with the unspecific practical objection , the objection that is as much to say that only seeing is believing . |