Example sentences of "[noun pl] left " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately a considerable quantity of Merovingian legal material survives to offset the negative images left by Gregory and Einhard . |
| 2 | Animals left behind as couple moved house , court told |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | " Unless it rains , I do n't believe there are going to be any animals left in the low veld by September " , he said . |
| 5 | There 'll be no animals left and no trees . |
| 6 | Compared with the extensive tracts of a century or so ago , there are few raised bogs left in England — a handful of sites in Shropshire and Cumbria , almost nothing in Lancashire , Cheshire and Staffordshire . |
| 7 | He had but three vessels left and despite urgent pleas from his men — now demoralized again , fretful once they realized another ship was gone — to abandon the voyage and sail back to the Guadalquivir , he pressed on north-westwards , passing through scenery of a wild grandeur and beauty he had never known before . |
| 8 | Alternatively , it could mean that the sources were more numerous in the past , at the time that the radio waves left on their journey to us , than they are now . |
| 9 | It is this feature which lends plausibility to the suggestion that the pictures , fitted into the recesses left for them , were not to be enjoyed as objects for themselves but as part of the grand architectural design of the two rooms . |
| 10 | There were still more than thirty calves left in the building and the terrible thought arose that the disease might spread through all of them . |
| 11 | There were still many family units left although in the last two decades there has been a tendency for farm sizes to increase . |
| 12 | There 's two units left . |
| 13 | Beyond , a lane — called Long Lane — branches left and comes to an end after two miles with Clapham Beck down on the left and the limestone scars of Norber up on the right . |
| 14 | ‘ You wo n't have any hankies left as this rate , ’ she said , then giggled with embarrassment . |
| 15 | Upstairs , alone , feeling left out of something she could n't define , she looked through a pile of books left by his door . |
| 16 | Rachaela thought of all her books left behind . |
| 17 | It is therefore particularly fitting that it is a charity associated with the teaching profession hat takes some of the books left over at the end of the sale to ‘ sent to countries in dire need ’ , as Lewis Romanis , former Headmaster of Boroughmuir School , put it in his gracious thank-you letter . |
| 18 | that , if you leave and that car comes and signals left , it means that you 've got to wait for it to go in , in case it does n't you know what I mean . |
| 19 | When the inspectors left , we 'd call him in and we 'd put the stuff back in the shelf . |
| 20 | I have no illusions left . ’ |
| 21 | The VPE , headed by Solange Fernex , also wants the funds left over from the Presidential campaign of Bruce Lalonde , one of the AT 's leading lights , to go into a common kitty , rather than being set aside for a future bid for power by Lalonde — perhaps in the European parliament elections in 1984 . |
| 22 | Er we 've got a little few earmarked funds left over like for instance , Theakston 's Brewery gave us the barrels and they gave us two and a half thousand pounds . |
| 23 | And so eventually , of course , they had no twigs left , then no branches left , and in the end the trees were cut right down . |
| 24 | Schofield and Devereux are expected to fill the centre roles left by Michael O'Connor who has retired , and Kevin Iro , who joins Leeds next week . |
| 25 | Cut out the length ‘ b ’ , and remove any copper filings left in the pipe . |
| 26 | There 'll not be many Gaelic speakers left here now . |
| 27 | Those teenagers left behind did not let their new skills go to waste . |
| 28 | Both continued to develop ; but it was the commemoration of the martyrs that came to swamp the Christian calendar during the fourth century , filling the interstices left in it . |
| 29 | The result of this obvious strategy would be to spread the hydra around still further , so that more and more of it grew from the savaged fragments left behind . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll keep Roy because he 's got 18 months left on his contract . |