Example sentences of "[is] left with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So one is left with the impossible task of explaining why a perfectly respectable causal chain should ‘ go mental ’ for a while and then , recovering its non-senses , should return to being purely physical . |
| 2 | Less bone is ingested by diurnal raptors , because some of it is left with the uneaten carcase after soft parts have been stripped off , whereas more of the bone is eaten by owls . |
| 3 | These replies may seem too trivial to mention — a nod , a murmur , ‘ that 's OK ’ or whatever , but if these signs are not provided the offender is left with the uneasy sense that his or her offence , trivial or not , is permanently entered in the criminal record . |
| 4 | On reading this inventory and understanding its meaning one is left with the firm impression that seventeenth-century glassmaking was a sophisticated business . |
| 5 | A woman may not be bound by her role as a housewife but it is still the case that in so far as any one person is left with the main responsibility for the housework , that person is the woman . |
| 6 | However the degree of authority and control retained by the member States militates against this conclusion , and one is left with the over-riding formalism of the terms of the contracts . |