Example sentences of "[be] left [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And since , as Mr Lawrence says , there could hardly be anything personal in the attack , we 're left with the probability that anyone who had happened along at that moment would have been dealt with in the same way .
2 If , on the other hand , having read this you 're left with the feeling ‘ so what ’ then let me leave you with the words of two teenagers who frequent similar established alcohol — free projects in England
3 A few minutes later , the Base Notes come through , and you 're left with the final , true fragrance created by the Master perfumer , Guy Robert , creator of scents for Dior and Hermès .
4 When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes .
5 Salients of oceanic crust may be left along the suture zone and parts of the Mediterranean Sea represent remnant ocean basins formed in this way .
6 It was easy to move among this great , churning concourse , and hear all there was to be heard , and no great trick , for an intelligent man , to winnow the less likely rumours out of the crop , and be left with the grain .
7 The objective will be a realistic specification that can be met by a wide variety of suppliers , but the final say in the specs will be left with the service suppliers , making it highly likely that Unix System V.4 will be at the core of the specification .
8 Food and meals are given such prominence that an unwary reader may be left with the notion that he was mainly remarkable for gluttony .
9 As a result of our decision Mr. Nathan 's successor in title will be left with the freehold of the remainder of No. 263–265 which , though retail premises , will have no frontage to a shopping street : the L.C.C . 's successors in title will have the freehold to a strip of land with a road frontage but probably incapable of being used save in conjunction with the land from which it was severed in 1930 , i.e. the remainder of No. 263–265 .
10 But it could just be the best way to get a balanced view about the future of the planet is to ask some of the remarkably well-informed people who 'll be left with the task of clearing up our mess .
11 Such arguments may seem trivial when bodies as thoughtful as the Church of England have taken it upon themselves to ponder the issue of the use of nuclear weapons ; but the bomb has not gone off and when it has receded into the background we will be left with the demand for electricity .
12 The West Midlands County Council will be left with the job of surfacing the roads .
13 I mean in some cases be left with the ward sister and I think in general that 's who they will nominate .
14 Instead , Lewis may be left with the consolation prize of being crowned the WBC champion as the heavyweight division falls apart .
15 If innkeepers did not have a right of sale they would be left with the property of guests which they could not realise in order to satisfy the debt .
16 It was too much , at sixty-three , too much to lose her husband and be left with the son who was the least favourite of her three children , and this dreadful marriage .
17 What action should be taken and what instructions would be left with the evening shift ?
18 A visitor to Mohenjo Daro , one of the Indus Valley sites , will be left with the impression that this city with all it contained had either in record time surpassed all other human generations in inventiveness , or that like the Aryans they were immigrants bringing with them centuries of cultural inheritance .
19 Readers were to be left with the impression that a ‘ woodchopper ’ beating out the time audibly and often was the inevitable result and proof of unmusical French ‘ good taste ’ : one preferring permanent metrical chaos .
20 The technique is very versatile because you can er then er go further and if you pull the pipette away from the from the cell you can , if y again if you 're lucky , be left with the membrane the patch of membrane firmly sealed to the glass pipette , and you can now record in so-called inside-out mode , in which the a er physiological inside of the membrane is exposed to the bathing medium , the the the in which the pipette is bathed .
21 It gave the clients confidence in my abilities , and also told them any hopes they may have had of getting away with a fifty dollar fee should be left with the receptionist .
22 The male can be left with the female , probably mating her two or three times , but this is of no importance .
23 The variety Nottingham has the best fruits , which must be left on the tree as long as possible so that they become ‘ bletted ’ — dark brown and softly squidgy .
24 — KOLESTRAL-SUPER can be left on the hair for 10–20 minutes .
25 If you wish to purchase a chunk of salame to slice yourself in the future , you should ask for the casing to be left on the meat to keep it in prime condition .
26 The cut should also be square , but a burr will be left on the inside which must be removed with the reamer attached to the pipe cutter .
27 Room must be left on the upwind side in case there is a cable break or premature release , and on the down wind side in case the wing touches and causes a swing that way .
28 Cars must not be left on the forecourt of The Turf Hotel .
29 The surface of the etch-resist ink might wash off in the developer but a layer of ink can still be left on the board , because the UV light has not had enough time to penetrate all the way through the resist .
30 The result of such constant chafing would definitely be left on the skin . ’
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