Example sentences of "would have left [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Of course , Amy would have left a daughter .
2 The ship that had followed us would have left a record of its course , and ours .
3 And European planetary scientists believe that ESA 's advisers rejected the Kepler mission to Mars mainly because of its cost : at £300 million it was twice as much as ISO , and would have left a gap of four years before anything else could be funded .
4 These disagreements themselves make it clear that there can have been no dramatic recovery which compensated for the losses from the fourteenth-century plagues ; any such marked increase would have left no scope for argument .
5 Sigeric 's successor , Ælfric , recovered it , but N.P. Brooks has pointed out that other losses would have left no trace in the Canterbury records if they were not regained , and Thietmar of Merseburg says that Archbishop Ælfheah was unable to ransom himself in 1012 because of dire poverty .
6 Pre-agricultural man as a forest dweller would have left no trace , although , like D'Arcy Thompson , who argued that sacred groves , as revered in many tropical countries today , were the inspiration for columned buildings ( hence the Greek temple and all modern architecture ) , it has been entertainingly argued by Corner that traces of forest life are embedded in modern society .
7 Had Mafart and Prieur simply abandoned the camper and boarded the flight they would have left the country undetected because at the time the police believed they were still driving around the country .
8 ( It 's terrifying to think how punch drunk one would have left the cinema had Oliver Stone been director . )
9 Other cottagers the teacher from Glasgow visited gave him a proof of their kindness ; they presented him with a large basin of milk : he took a drink of it , and would have left the remainder , but they signalled to him to drink it all , and the old man stood opposite the door to prevent his getting away till he was obliged , in answer to Gaelic gesticulations , to drink all the milk that was in the basin .
10 It is possible that , over time , the simple loss of the left systemic arch in the crocodilian heart could have resulted in an avian double-pump which would have left the dinosaur ‘ free to evolve ’ tachymetabolism .
11 She would have left the door open and the landing light on so that she was clearly visible from the stairs .
12 The fourth argument was that the amendment would have left the Government with inadequate powers .
13 Much more speed and her feet would have left the ground .
14 And I 'm sure I would have left the club readily and earlier if I 'd known what he was going to say later .
15 So I stood by the door I wait till dad come in cos he was the last out and it was always my fault like , I would have left the fire on not him .
16 Moeri 's original procedure , of adding the chemicals to the second vat , would however have taken only a few minutes and would have left the reaction in no condition to explode .
17 In their earlier period , those who preferred the inevitability of gradualness blamed him — as they did Marx — for the inadequacy of an economic theory which stopped at Ricardo ; and for proposing an instant change to a national and co-operative structure for industry which would , they considered , in the event have failed to abolish competition and Capitalism , and would have left the class structure of society unchanged except perhaps in detail .
18 Almost certainly some of the workers would have left the area .
19 When Theda would have left the room with a pile of soiled linen , the cracked voice stayed her .
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