Example sentences of "[prep] be leave [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN ELDERLY woman died after being left for 11 hours on a hospital trolley , an inquest was told yesterday . |
| 2 | She was critical but stable in Middlesbrough General Hospital last night after being left for dead when a Ford Cortina crashed into parked vehicles in Berwick Hills , Middlesbrough , on Sunday . |
| 3 | We have been left so much to our own devices — after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people 's . |
| 4 | The crop therefore has to be picked in an immature state if retailers are not to run the risk of being left with over-soft , unsaleable tomatoes . |
| 5 | For example , we could not set up an experiment to test the effect on young babies of being left in complete isolation , except for being fed regularly . |
| 6 | Some patients who have had a myocardial infarct , and particularly those who have had thrombolytic therapy , are going to be left with residual stenosis . |
| 7 | Control over their supply and the exchange rates between them were , in the final analysis , to be left to national discretion . |
| 8 | The protection of what is truly important to the culture of the whole of Europe is too serious a matter to be left to unrealistic laws . |
| 9 | War was too important to be left to those who , by tradition , had been charged with supervising it . |
| 10 | Given the scarcity of research and the potential for teachers of collecting data in their own classrooms , trainee teachers can be introduced to research procedures in initial training although a more thorough approach has to be left for in-service work due to inevitable constraints on time . |
| 11 | Perhaps when his desk collapsed through sheer weight of mail he finally will realise that we simply want to be left for 60 minutes an hour in our blinkered little world of leather and willow . |
| 12 | Spaces had to be left for some animals to be added as and when I found them . |
| 13 | In certain fields , such as voting theory , there have been significant advances , but the broader questions have tended to be left on one side . |
| 14 | Everything has to be left in separate heaps in his manger for him to inspect before he condescends to eat it . |
| 15 | She knew that he had two grown-up daughters of his own and would scarcely have approved of aiding and abetting or even allowing a girl of Liza 's age to be left in any compromising situation with a young married man . |
| 16 | They seemed to be left by minute aircraft . |
| 17 | But Hoey feels Anderson ( 31 ) , desperately unlucky to be left behind four years ago , has hit the sort of form which could thrust him into the reckoning . |
| 18 | From a lonely boyhood to being left for dead in some alley , he had never looked to others for strength . |