Example sentences of "[noun] have be left [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assertion about the murder of the father setting problems for the unconscious life of all later generations has been left unexamined in anthropology and sociology . |
| 2 | Welcome back : Today 's budget has confirmed that we will soon have to pay to drive on motorways.But the bulk of the twenty three billion pound road building programme has been left intact . |
| 3 | But the court heard that after the defendant had been left alone on the ward with Katie for about ten minutes , she had turned blue and stopped breathing . |
| 4 | A sea valve had been left open on the tanker as she discharged her cargo at Esso 's Fawley Refinery on Sunday . |
| 5 | Auxiliary pumps came on but vital valves had been left shut and they were ineffective . |
| 6 | The office of President had been left vacant since Ayliffe 's retirement . |
| 7 | The following sentences have been partially transcribed , but the vowels have been left blank . |
| 8 | But all too often , they do n't have to use force to get into a house because a door or window has been left open . |
| 9 | His mother Elizabeth said debris lying around the park was more dangerous than if the area under the play equipment had been left grassed . |
| 10 | Gemma had been left alone at home in Hammersmith , west London . |
| 11 | For as to the last oracle , the Gospels had been left open , and there was a wind blew through from the south doorway and ruffled the pages over , turning back from John to Matthew . |
| 12 | With the wet end to the summer , there may be fields where the crop has been left unharvested . |
| 13 | The body has been left unfinished , and only an oil sealant has been given to the wood to protect it . |
| 14 | The press had made a meal of it , the show had been scrapped and the minor celebrity had been left unemployed , presumably at fault , and still entertainingly glowing . |
| 15 | More and more frequently the assaulting infantry discovered that French machine-gun nests had been left untouched by the artillery . |
| 16 | A Guardian report of June 13 to the effect that underground bunkers containing conventional and nuclear weapons had been left unattended at Clark produced denials from US service sources and the Philippine government . |
| 17 | It is precisely because there is uncertainty about how far judges will continue to load costs for asbestosis and pollution on to insurers that so many Lloyd 's years have been left open . |
| 18 | The Mediterranean was accurate enough , but India was shown as an island and northern waters had been left blank . |
| 19 | He rightly points out that — apart from Brent , which has no overall control , and Tower Hamlets , which is controlled by the Liberal Democrats — the 10 authorities with the highest percentage of empties in their stock are Labour controlled , and about 20,000 properties have been left empty for more than a year . |
| 20 | Few of the top firms have been left untainted by the thrift industry 's collapse , and huge rulings against firms are becoming increasingly common . |
| 21 | The intonation has been left unadjusted , though , and would need to be set before any serious playing could take place . |
| 22 | Sixty-three legionnaires had held off a Mexican force of 2,000 soldiers for a whole day , at the end of which five legionnaires had been left alive ; these five , thirsty , hungry and out of ammunition , had bayonet charged the Mexicans . |
| 23 | People have been left bemused and angry by a tidal wave of reforms that have made their country a textbook case of monetary theory pushed , perhaps , as far as possible within the constraints of electoral sustainability . |
| 24 | ‘ As for Neighbours there is always the possibility I could go back to it , the door has been left open for Charlene to reappear at any time . |
| 25 | In over 30% of domestic burglaries , the burglar simply walks in without using any force because a window or door has been left open . |
| 26 | But there is no mistaking the fact that the First Division door has been left ajar . |
| 27 | While ‘ The Prophet ’ was asleep , a violent rainstorm swept across the countryside but when it ended and the farmer went to see how the fugitive minister had fared , he found that , miraculously , an area around the sleeping man had been left untouched by the rain . |
| 28 | At the very top of the structure , at the point of the cone , a space had been left open to let in the light . |
| 29 | The powerboat world has been left high and dry this summer by a big red boat named Flippin Shytalk … its call sign is P69 … the only number that reads the same upside down … but the Oxfordshire crew that run and race her are on the very top of their sport at the moment … |
| 30 | In example 1 above , the t of steep has been left uncrossed , making the word look like sleep instead , and in example 2 the word dog looks like clog . |