Example sentences of "what be leave [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What 's left of poor Cosmas has been sheeted , coffined , and lies before the altar . |
| 2 | This is the kind of stipulation that could make the job of deciding on ‘ satisfactory ’ levels of noise in what is left of industrial Britain a lot easier . |
| 3 | That is now happening , which will be a big help to what is left of British Industry . |
| 4 | It therefore seems that the way will be eased to the continuing destruction of what is left of wild nature in Britain , to serve the open-ended demands of development and growth . |
| 5 | In its relentless quest to buy up every open operating system technology that does not belong to Microsoft Corp , Novell Inc is reportedly considering buying what is left of NeXT Inc if it can come to terms with founder and controlling shareholder Steve Jobs . |
| 6 | What is left of this small library are now in the collection in the Islay Museum . |
| 7 | The Ruffed Lemur is an extremely vocal animal living in what is left of Madagascan forests . |
| 8 | It is in the case of deeper congruences and possible congruences that the use of ‘ ideology ’ raises most problems , since if ideology is a major reference-point , or even point of origin , at such basic levels of social production and reproduction , it is difficult , as previously in some uses of ‘ culture ’ , to know what is left for all other social processes . |
| 9 | He slurped as noisily as a ravenous dog , mopping up what was left with hard crusts of bread which Father Peter shoved before him on a wooden platter . |
| 10 | The motel-supermarket-hamburger civilization has now been superimposed on what was left of nineteenth-century towns , and has further worn down the differences between one region and the next , but it is doubtful whether the mass mind or the mass man has yet come to pass , except to the extent that people always conform to a prevailing style while it lasts . |
| 11 | On several tables draped with white oil-cloth reposed the battered and bloody remains of what was left of five Chinese bodies , and Fred Peavy , the mortician-embalmer , was apparently trying to piece them together to make up the contents of five plain wooden coffins . |
| 12 | Running her hand over what was left of thick , dark hair that had been shaved to within half an inch of its life , and which served to enhance her astonishingly beautiful face , she smiled . |
| 13 | Then the flames licked at her fingers and she dropped what was left of True Love at her high-heeled feet . |
| 14 | The drunk in the corner , who wore what was left of some kind of camouflage outfit , came over , pulling a revolver out of his britches pocket . |