Example sentences of "[been] left " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed insider accounts have largely consisted of bland reminiscences in the style of ‘ my greatest arrests and cases ’ and it has been left to investigative journalism to redress some unacceptable police activity , by calling attention to the limits and abuses of police authority , power , and accountability . |
| 2 | The hearth was drifted up with cinders that had been left uncleared when today 's fire was lit . |
| 3 | On the first floor , a radio had been left on . |
| 4 | She left the surgery clutching Lizzie 's collar ; in the space of a few minutes it was all she had been left with , apart from memories . |
| 5 | Dostoevsky 's home-made word does n't appear in Crime and Punishment ; it has been left behind ( unlike the mind that coined it ) in the much more theoretical Notes from Underground . |
| 6 | Such people have in the past been left to go their own way without interference . |
| 7 | A sea valve had been left open on the tanker as she discharged her cargo at Esso 's Fawley Refinery on Sunday . |
| 8 | A group of English players are reported to be bitter at having been left out of the squad for next week 's world team championships , and inevitably , the name of the game for the next couple of days in the Open , which starts today , will be to try to make monkeys of those who omitted them . |
| 9 | Possibly , Haines 's public ‘ unveiling ’ should have been left for a while as he felt unable at this early stage to give firm views on major issues , such as racing 's finances and Jockey Club justice . |
| 10 | More than once , right-wing union leaders have been left fuming in their seats as a stream of party activists were called to the rostrum . |
| 11 | Many sales had been left with high unsold percentages over the previous two weeks , though some had been successful . |
| 12 | ‘ ALASTAIR MORTON is terrific at crisis management , but he is no good when it comes to running a settled organisation , ’ says one of those who has been left , somewhat bruised , along the wayside of Mr Morton 's whirlwind career . |
| 13 | Until now , under this Government , everything has been left to the hazards of private development and the initiative of county councils . |
| 14 | Implementation has been left to local managers , who appear to have baulked at that option . |
| 15 | The project crew has yet to appear in Punta del Este , so the crew has no money to pay bills already incurred , and their passports have been left in France to be given Australian visas . |
| 16 | INVESTORS in Over-The-Counter ( OTC ) shares have been left in limbo since the market fizzled out , often unable to sell their shares or , in some cases , trace the company in which they invested . |
| 17 | But there is no mistaking the fact that the First Division door has been left ajar . |
| 18 | The schoolhouses had been left empty in the Revolution , and then ransacked by peasants , as the Bolshevik investigators had noticed on their way to Nikol'skaia . |
| 19 | When one views the subsequent history of Vietnam , and Indonesia , however , it does not seem extravagant to claim that Mountbatten could hardly have made as bad a job of it if he had been left to his own devices . |
| 20 | When she had been little , once Fenna had taught her how to fly so that she no longer went wandering off , there had been very little time when she had been left alone . |
| 21 | Moran was in a rage about tools and a barrow that had been left out in the rain and complained about how much money was being wasted heedlessly about the house all the time . |
| 22 | Consequently his wife has been left to fend for herself over a variety of matters . |
| 23 | Various panels of brickwork have been left exposed rather than plastered over , and the original heavy timber floor beams generally continue to project down below ceilings . |
| 24 | It was Diana , aged six — old enough to understand she had been left , but not yet old enough to understand why — who felt so bereft . |
| 25 | Airlines have been asked to check new Boeing 737s after an alert by the US Federal Aviation Authority that a bolt may have been left off the plane 's forward door during production . |
| 26 | Equally intriguing will be the line-out performance of the young London Irish lock , Neil Francis , who has been left out of the current Ireland squad . |
| 27 | Dodie Penalosa from the Philippines , who challenges Dave McAuley for the International Boxing Federation 's flyweight title at Wembley Arena tonight , suffered from poliomyelitis when he was a child and has been left with a weak left leg and restricted mobility . |
| 28 | TWO of the top three women in Britain 's national rankings , Sara Gomer and Monique Javer , have been left out of the British team for the European championships which take place in Nantes from November 23 to 26 . |
| 29 | Painting throughout its history has served many different purposes , has been flat and has used perspective , has been framed and has been left borderless , has been explicit and has been mysterious . |
| 30 | Mr Jack Straw , Labour 's shadow education secretary , said last night that it was the first time in his 10 years in Parliament that responsibility for piloting such an important piece of legislation through committee had been left to such junior departmental politicians . |