Example sentences of "[was/were] leave [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bottom line is that whilst Wilko has made decisions which have upset , even annoyed us , if he were to leave for the England job there is no-one remotely capable of replacing him . |
| 2 | Meantime BR 's two other passenger sectors , Provincial and Network SouthEast , were left under the 1986 reorganisation without their own catering . |
| 3 | Once , on a rare occasion before their marriage when they were left without a chaperone , she had asked him why he had n't married before ? |
| 4 | Some said they 'd , they 'd be interested in playing , they knew how to play certain things and others wanted to play others and that 's how we started , and in a matter of a year the new headquarters at er Lowestoft was being opened , by the Dutchess of Kent , and we decided that the band was going to play at that one and you can imagine , and it was all ready and they were playing music , but I 'm not sure what , what quality music it was , and blow me on the week before , the band leader , the conductor decided he could n't play because he had a sprained wrist so we were left without a conductor even , but we managed to get another conductor and we played and I do n't know what it sounded like , but the Dutchess of Kent was very kind , she said the music sounded lovely . |
| 5 | Thus at the end of the programme class teachers were left without the intellectual means to continue their development . |
| 6 | He had little time to see them , to know them ; like others ' children , they were left to a nurse and Mrs Gracie . |
| 7 | So long as international affairs were left to the uncontrolled interplay of nation states , mutual suspicion would generate arms races which , in turn , would generate wars . |
| 8 | On 10 February 1992 , at the Snaresbrook Crown Court , the appellant pleaded not guilty to an indictment containing four counts which ultimately were left to the jury . |
| 9 | They were left to the existing law whatever it might be held to be . |
| 10 | Traditional ‘ tool courses ’ were left to the existing Congress programme , or preferably to affiliated unions . |
| 11 | But the six-day week , the 7.5 hour shift and the other things that make Asforby possible would be impossible if things were left to the National Union of Mineworkers . |
| 12 | The nationalization acts creating public corporations usually made it a statutory requirement for such machinery to be set up , although the form and details were left to the parties . |
| 13 | Gaps were left for the doorways and the resulting trench would have measured 22.1 × 8.5 metres , although it was slightly wider at the middle of the long sides . |
| 14 | In his view , there are times when you have to fight fire with fire , or , as he put it rather more eloquently during his defence of the Grand Slam Cup decision , ‘ It was a sad reality that we were left with no real option but to protect tradition with the modern deterrent — money . ’ |
| 15 | But Major , Patten , Douglas Hurd , Kenneth Clarke , and even Michael Heseltine , were left with no choice but to argue that Thatcherism had been good for Britain . |
| 16 | Written by the University Distinguished Professor of History at Michigan State University author of a number of books on East-West relations it is delivered in a grindingly dull style : ‘ From painting , drawing , engraving , and imagery on china-ware , Americans were left with no doubt that the Chinese were culturally as well as physically different from Europeans . ’ |
| 17 | Even the sceptics were left with no doubt that the production of an effective vaccine against schistosomiasis is not only necessary , but possible . |
| 18 | Just as Rangers were left with no option but to field a patched-up side against Brugge , so Scotland will be forced to select a team some way short of full strength against Germany . |
| 19 | If we find ourselves , as we did , unable to campaign , to argue , to debate on the great issues of economic policy , we were left with a very narrow terrain on which to fight economic issues . |
| 20 | The group , who have an active Saturday club and a Monday Club for the blind and partly-sighted , has their mini-coach stolen when it was on loan to another charitable organisation , and they were left with a deficit of £5,500 when the insurance was settled . |
| 21 | So they were left with a tantalising hint : heat , yes ; neutrons , no . |
| 22 | The band were left with a £10,000 bill for damage after valuable antiques were thrown out of a window , damaging a car below . |
| 23 | Unbeaten Surrey , setting the pace at the top of the table , were left with a target of 242 in 34 overs after bowling out Essex for 153 — and after some spectacular hitting required just 64 off 12½ overs when the skies opened up . |
| 24 | Any change would be gradual and for the time local parties were left with a free choice . |
| 25 | They both lost their wives , and were left with a child . |
| 26 | Jean-Pierre , Denise and the two Danielles were taken round East Lothian schools on Thursday and Friday then were left with a free day on Saturday . |
| 27 | At independence most African countries were left with a single cash crop to export . |
| 28 | And we were left with a mine there . |
| 29 | They were left with the feeling of not getting anywhere . |
| 30 | Detailed administrative and procedural arrangements were left with the officers of the Board and the District and , at last , Jacques was invited to attend subsequent meetings of the Cambridge Board pending his nomination as a WEA member . |