Example sentences of "[noun sg] be leave [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Panel discourages over complex and onerous conditions as the shareholder is left with great uncertainty as to the terms of the offer . |
| 2 | Once an excavation finishes , the archaeologist is left with numerous written , drawn and photographic records in addition to a quantity of finds and environmental samples with which to establish a picture of the history and development of the excavated site . |
| 3 | Esda is effectively negated because the plastic sheet ensures that no indentation is left on underlying pages . |
| 4 | However , a car was left on 25 October 1935 and began to run away down Anerley Hill . |
| 5 | The sealing tape was left in open view , so that if the box was opened by security during the journey , there would be something to reseal it with . |
| 6 | The cucumber and lettuce were left in overnight for the Peckoltias and the Whiptails . |
| 7 | ‘ being the person in charge ’ This point is usually proved by asking the person suspected of parking or causing the vehicle to be parked in the offending position ‘ Are you responsible for this vehicle being left in this position ? ’ |
| 8 | Disorders of the body are left to medical science . |
| 9 | Many states created by colonization were left with administrative boundaries within which the colonizer 's language was the only common tongue . |
| 10 | Thirdly the cry to the Father was to set the captives free from the Devil , who ensnares and traps what goodness is left in human beings . |
| 11 | The drape of the fabric will improve if the curtain is left like this for a while . |
| 12 | ( 188 ) can be compared with ( 154 ) — ( 156 ) above : make evokes the production of an effect for which the " maker " is wholly responsible , there being no other factor but the behaviour of the agent " you " involved in bringing about this effect ( contrast ( 182 ) in this respect , where room is left for other factors to intervene ) . |
| 13 | No-one in the Liverpool dressing room is left in any doubt as to the standards they are expected to achieve each time they are selected . |
| 14 | The room was left in complete darkness . |
| 15 | This use of HLCAs is , in fact , available but not widely publicised by the Agriculture Department with much discretion being left to individual officers , a situation which MAFF has stated will be rectified . |
| 16 | Uses a ‘ sponge and dough ’ process ; part of the dough is left for 24 hours and then added to new dough . |
| 17 | So how can protecting the environment be left to individual conscience ? |
| 18 | In many bureaux where the advice workers carry out client interviewing only , the manager is left with direct responsibility for all other bureau tasks . |
| 19 | If you have a man and a woman and they have a child , and the man leaves and the woman is left with that child , no matter if that child is a male or female , there is something missing . |
| 20 | The convention establishes procedures for the transport and disposal of toxic waste , and insists that the country for which the waste is intended should agree to receive it before it leaves port — an effort to avoid incidents such as the 1988 voyage from port to port of the Karin B. Environmentalists have criticized the convention for its lack of " teeth " — enforcement is left to individual countries — and for its lack of precision on what constitutes acceptable disposal standards . |
| 21 | While the West recovered and prospered , the peoples of the Soviet Union were left with another four decades of dictatorship . |
| 22 | Firms in the UK have been able to repurchase their shares since the 1981 Companies Act , provided that shareholders are willing to sell and that the firm is left with some issue of share capital following the repurchase . |
| 23 | There are examples in the private sector of quantification of what is material , but in most cases materiality is left to individual judgement . |
| 24 | The party , for example , has always opposed mandatory comprehensive secondary education , insisting that the choice be left to each local authority . |
| 25 | The thick porridgy liquid is left for several hours while the natural sugars in the malt dissolve into the liquor . |
| 26 | By the end of the week , only a small residue was left for next year . |
| 27 | If the play were left at that , then , Brutus would have come out on top , but since Mark Antony was left to talk , his extremely clever speech then persuaded the crowd into thinking his way , as we shall see now . |
| 28 | I would like to ask , why , when there co-operation at the , the Strathclyde bus company they have buses that are running choc-a-block constantly full , but then again suddenly a bus that does n't pay its full way is taken off and people that are dependant on that bus are left without any transport , why ca n't the busy bus subsidise the bus that is n't ? , because after it its public transport , so is it a complete and utter profit that the buses are running for or is it for the convenience of the public ? because it is |
| 29 | No creature in this world is left without some enemies . |
| 30 | Since the Second World War , the United Nations Statistical Office has done much to stimulate a global view of economic and social problems particularly in relation to human fertility but the responsibility for gathering the required information is left with individual countries , the majority of which do not have resources of trained manpower to accomplish the task themselves . |