Example sentences of "be left [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salients of oceanic crust may be left along the suture zone and parts of the Mediterranean Sea represent remnant ocean basins formed in this way . |
| 2 | It was easy to move among this great , churning concourse , and hear all there was to be heard , and no great trick , for an intelligent man , to winnow the less likely rumours out of the crop , and be left with the grain . |
| 3 | The objective will be a realistic specification that can be met by a wide variety of suppliers , but the final say in the specs will be left with the service suppliers , making it highly likely that Unix System V.4 will be at the core of the specification . |
| 4 | Food and meals are given such prominence that an unwary reader may be left with the notion that he was mainly remarkable for gluttony . |
| 5 | As a result of our decision Mr. Nathan 's successor in title will be left with the freehold of the remainder of No. 263–265 which , though retail premises , will have no frontage to a shopping street : the L.C.C . 's successors in title will have the freehold to a strip of land with a road frontage but probably incapable of being used save in conjunction with the land from which it was severed in 1930 , i.e. the remainder of No. 263–265 . |
| 6 | But it could just be the best way to get a balanced view about the future of the planet is to ask some of the remarkably well-informed people who 'll be left with the task of clearing up our mess . |
| 7 | Such arguments may seem trivial when bodies as thoughtful as the Church of England have taken it upon themselves to ponder the issue of the use of nuclear weapons ; but the bomb has not gone off and when it has receded into the background we will be left with the demand for electricity . |
| 8 | The West Midlands County Council will be left with the job of surfacing the roads . |
| 9 | I mean in some cases be left with the ward sister and I think in general that 's who they will nominate . |
| 10 | Instead , Lewis may be left with the consolation prize of being crowned the WBC champion as the heavyweight division falls apart . |
| 11 | If innkeepers did not have a right of sale they would be left with the property of guests which they could not realise in order to satisfy the debt . |
| 12 | It was too much , at sixty-three , too much to lose her husband and be left with the son who was the least favourite of her three children , and this dreadful marriage . |
| 13 | What action should be taken and what instructions would be left with the evening shift ? |
| 14 | A visitor to Mohenjo Daro , one of the Indus Valley sites , will be left with the impression that this city with all it contained had either in record time surpassed all other human generations in inventiveness , or that like the Aryans they were immigrants bringing with them centuries of cultural inheritance . |
| 15 | Readers were to be left with the impression that a ‘ woodchopper ’ beating out the time audibly and often was the inevitable result and proof of unmusical French ‘ good taste ’ : one preferring permanent metrical chaos . |
| 16 | The technique is very versatile because you can er then er go further and if you pull the pipette away from the from the cell you can , if y again if you 're lucky , be left with the membrane the patch of membrane firmly sealed to the glass pipette , and you can now record in so-called inside-out mode , in which the a er physiological inside of the membrane is exposed to the bathing medium , the the the in which the pipette is bathed . |
| 17 | It gave the clients confidence in my abilities , and also told them any hopes they may have had of getting away with a fifty dollar fee should be left with the receptionist . |
| 18 | The male can be left with the female , probably mating her two or three times , but this is of no importance . |
| 19 | The variety Nottingham has the best fruits , which must be left on the tree as long as possible so that they become ‘ bletted ’ — dark brown and softly squidgy . |
| 20 | — KOLESTRAL-SUPER can be left on the hair for 10–20 minutes . |
| 21 | If you wish to purchase a chunk of salame to slice yourself in the future , you should ask for the casing to be left on the meat to keep it in prime condition . |
| 22 | The cut should also be square , but a burr will be left on the inside which must be removed with the reamer attached to the pipe cutter . |
| 23 | Room must be left on the upwind side in case there is a cable break or premature release , and on the down wind side in case the wing touches and causes a swing that way . |
| 24 | Cars must not be left on the forecourt of The Turf Hotel . |
| 25 | The surface of the etch-resist ink might wash off in the developer but a layer of ink can still be left on the board , because the UV light has not had enough time to penetrate all the way through the resist . |
| 26 | The result of such constant chafing would definitely be left on the skin . ’ |
| 27 | Paper should be left on the floor and the puppy encouraged to defaecate on it . |
| 28 | Naîve as it may sound , Morrissey 's ideals ( which ran opposite to the ‘ If he does n't get himself a missus soon he 'll be left on the shelf … or he 's a pooftah … ’ mentality ) attracted many young admirers . |
| 29 | Top performer wo n't be left on the shelf |
| 30 | The saga centres on the tangled love life of a 30-year-old woman , who fears she will be left on the shelf . |