Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [be] left [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assertion about the murder of the father setting problems for the unconscious life of all later generations has been left unexamined in anthropology and sociology . |
| 2 | Auxiliary pumps came on but vital valves had been left shut and they were ineffective . |
| 3 | The following sentences have been partially transcribed , but the vowels have been left blank . |
| 4 | For as to the last oracle , the Gospels had been left open , and there was a wind blew through from the south doorway and ruffled the pages over , turning back from John to Matthew . |
| 5 | More and more frequently the assaulting infantry discovered that French machine-gun nests had been left untouched by the artillery . |
| 6 | A Guardian report of June 13 to the effect that underground bunkers containing conventional and nuclear weapons had been left unattended at Clark produced denials from US service sources and the Philippine government . |
| 7 | It is precisely because there is uncertainty about how far judges will continue to load costs for asbestosis and pollution on to insurers that so many Lloyd 's years have been left open . |
| 8 | She 's had more people in there , the dogs have been left more hours that |
| 9 | In so doing it is recognized that many of the questions raised are left open for subsequent investigation and that the results are initial and tentative . |
| 10 | The Mediterranean was accurate enough , but India was shown as an island and northern waters had been left blank . |
| 11 | He rightly points out that — apart from Brent , which has no overall control , and Tower Hamlets , which is controlled by the Liberal Democrats — the 10 authorities with the highest percentage of empties in their stock are Labour controlled , and about 20,000 properties have been left empty for more than a year . |
| 12 | Few of the top firms have been left untainted by the thrift industry 's collapse , and huge rulings against firms are becoming increasingly common . |
| 13 | Sixty-three legionnaires had held off a Mexican force of 2,000 soldiers for a whole day , at the end of which five legionnaires had been left alive ; these five , thirsty , hungry and out of ammunition , had bayonet charged the Mexicans . |
| 14 | Above : This car was bound for Squires Gate on 18 June 1955 , when the car suddenly turned right into Station Road , the points having been left open by the previous Marton car . |
| 15 | Police said social services officers are to investigate why the children had been left alone in the house . |
| 16 | The ones who do object , and with reason , are those whose land has been trampled over without care , whose stock have got loose because gates have been left open or walls broken down , or whose sheep have cut themselves or choked to death on the bottles and plastic bags thrown away by the Wandering Wallies of this world that have as much common sense and appreciation of the countryside as a toad has feathers . |
| 17 | East German companies , he said , suffering the adverse effects of German economic union , had defaulted on import contracts worth 230 million roubles for vehicles , machinery , chemical products and raw materials ; other contracts had been left uncompleted and tourism agreements unfulfilled . |
| 18 | Opposing bail at the Magistrates Court , a detective said the two women had been left penniless and without passports but were planning to leave in a couple of days . |
| 19 | The schoolhouses had been left empty in the Revolution , and then ransacked by peasants , as the Bolshevik investigators had noticed on their way to Nikol'skaia . |
| 20 | The first set of amendments , which entered into force on Oct. 22 , 1989 , covered the provision of leak-detection systems or closed-circuit television to warn the crew if cargo doors had been left open . |
| 21 | Some of their unwitting victims have been left paralysed or disfigured for life and yet this barbaric practice is acceptable within the law . |