Example sentences of "[det] leave us [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 If we persist in interpreting virginity and motherhood only in a physical sense this leaves us with a problem , and she once again becomes a burden by being an impossible act to follow .
2 The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only .
3 Thus although it is commonly suggested that the notion of certainty is relevant to the analysis of claims to knowledge , but not to the analysis of knowledge itself ( e.g. , in Woozley , 1953 ) , this leaves us with no method of explaining why certainty should be required before one can claim knowledge when it is not required for knowledge itself , i.e. , for the existence of what one is claiming .
4 This leaves us with the possibility that , while the previous life the patient describes may not actually have happened , he is not deliberately inventing it but relating something which may have been created in his subconscious mind and which he really believes to be true .
5 So that gives us a total expenditure of seven eighty seven sixty two for the year and that leaves us with a balance er of the year and that 's nine ninety eight ninety nine pence .
6 Of course , that leaves us with the problem raised in the first chapter — the extent to which such old people feel they are no longer able to engage in transactions which benefit others as well as themselves .
7 And that leaves us with the second alternative .
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