Example sentences of "was left with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , when it came to the social charter , when we really would have liked to influence events , Britain was left with no negotiating power , few friends and only one course of action — to opt out of the social dimension altogether . |
| 2 | Aenarion was left with no choice . |
| 3 | When the workers took a ballot , went on strike and refused to accept a peace plan ( which by then included a wage freeze and a cut in certain benefits ) , he says he was left with no choice : ‘ I dismissed the old workforce and hired a new one . |
| 4 | Then I heard the Hispaniola hit the little boat , and I was left with no way to escape . |
| 5 | Mrs Kemp was left with no alternative but to accept that no hearing could take place . |
| 6 | She was left with no alternative . |
| 7 | ‘ I tried agonizingly to work out the details privately but I was left with no alternative . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I was left with no option but to help my wife pack seven bags , ’ he tells the Daily Dispatch . |
| 9 | Wycliffe gave no sign , and Sara was left with no option but to continue . |
| 10 | In which case she was left with no option but to tell him , a trace arrogantly , it was true , ‘ I do n't wish to discuss it ! ’ |
| 11 | With the parties arrayed against him and no Gaullist movement to counter them , he was left with no means of influencing the constitutional debate in a positive direction . |
| 12 | He was never remotely stumped when an item went down at the last moment and the presenter was left with a minute to fill . |
| 13 | On the other hand erm if you 're looking at , obviously sometimes our members felt that there was a benefit , at least the employer was n't getting , was n't getting off the hook as far as the matter was concerned , the matter arising was concerned , and therefore he was left with a problem just the same as we were . |
| 14 | Anyway , they dismantled the bed and I was left with a strip blanket [ a sheet of heavy material designed to be almost impossible to tear ] and a mattress , one heavy black mattress . |
| 15 | But not many people did see it and he was left with a clutch of good notices , a prospect of the West End which would say no , most times , to the sort of plays he was right for and a generous offer from Anthony Quayle to come back to Shakespeare in Stratford and tackle the next range of roles . |
| 16 | I had so much invested in my identity as a young success that when it all evaporated I was left with a part of myself I did n't know or understand or like . |
| 17 | At this point , the Taxman 's wife expressed moral outrage at the discovery that her husband would , without compunction , report her misdeeds , or those of her daughter , to the authorities , and the Philosopher was left with a sense of having stumbled upon a set of basic moral presumptions which are held in common by one sex , and entirely inverted in the case of the other — a looking-glass reversal of priorities and values . |
| 18 | He had torn the little gold cross from around her neck , during love , with such force she was left with a welt which never ever seemed to vanish . |
| 19 | So BET was left with a workforce of five hundred cleaners , with no-where to clean . |
| 20 | Badfinger had worked out of the studios but the main guy topped himself in 1975 ( to be followed by another in 1983 ) and Bill was left with a studio and no band . |
| 21 | Like your correspondent M.E. Smith ( Air Mail , September ) , I was left with a feeling of confusion and disquiet after trying to use the CANP scheme recently . |
| 22 | The social worker was left with a feeling of uncertainty about who her client was , a kind of balancing act being required between the needs of both of the Fitches . |
| 23 | Whole communities were alienated and impoverished ; a large part of the nation was left with a feeling halfway between guilt and unease ; and Baldwin 's reputation as a statesman of sagacious moderation was badly dented . |
| 24 | He got $1000 and after paying his expert witnesses was left with a loss . |
| 25 | And really it has to be said and has to be said historically that I mean the army in a way was left with a job which politicians should have sorted out before it got to that stage . |
| 26 | ‘ I did the job for the Government and for Britain and I was left with a lot of disbenefits including holes in the fields and a concrete standing area for lorries which I do n't want , ’ he said . |
| 27 | But the Government was left with a lot to think about . |
| 28 | Walk The Beat was left with a lot to do in the Tennents LA Maiden Auction stakes after swerving left leaving the stalls . |
| 29 | Both Mccullin and Page were badly wounded , the latter was left with a steel plate in his brain . |
| 30 | He tried making snowballs as he had in Britain only to find that in these low temperatures he was left with a handful of flour-like snow that simply blew away when he threw it . |