Example sentences of "[conj] have [been] left [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before turning to the work of Sayre , Dennett and Sloman , I should at least mention one major question that has been left unasked in this paper , and intentionally so : namely , what properties would a machine have to have in order to be sufficient for us to deem it conscious ? |
| 2 | From the book he 'd just put down he knew that vast tracts of virgin tropical forest covered those mountainsides and large areas of the lowlands too ; in the book there w.ere sepia-tinted photographs of primitive tribesmen who still hunted with stone-tipped arrows and poison darts in those same forests that also teemed with elephant herds , tiger , buffalo , black bears and countless other rare species of animal life that had been left undisturbed by the march of civilization . |
| 3 | Of course the ‘ big three ’ are only the tip of the iceberg — there are dozens more brilliant routes at the Roaches , including one classic of a style that had been left unrepresented by our day out . |
| 4 | She was thinking of the book that had been left open on the bedcover when she first visited ‘ La Felicità ’ . |
| 5 | The hearth was drifted up with cinders that had been left uncleared when today 's fire was lit . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Hound Tor is a deserted settlement in Manaton parish , high on the east side of Dartmoor , which was excavated some years ago and has been left open so that visitors can see it . |
| 8 | A wily merchant had asked fifty times their worth , and had been left gaping when one thousand times their worth had been pressed into his hands . |
| 9 | The implications of Moses and Monotheism are far-reaching , and have been left undeveloped by psychoanalysts . |