Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [be] left [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Auxiliary pumps came on but vital valves had been left shut and they were ineffective . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | More and more frequently the assaulting infantry discovered that French machine-gun nests had been left untouched by the artillery . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Mediterranean was accurate enough , but India was shown as an island and northern waters had been left blank . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Police said social services officers are to investigate why the children had been left alone in the house . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |