Example sentences of "left to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undoubtedly , left to themselves some manufacturers would feel bound to institute corrective measures in the processes , or pay compensation , but many would not . |
| 2 | Rufus used to say that if left to themselves most men would live on meat and cake . |
| 3 | I 'll say this , if he 's done it , he 's done something more than you hulks 'ave ever done ; it 's been left to me two lasses to breed . |
| 4 | The world has turned to places it regards as more important , and Afghanistan has been left to its civil war . |
| 5 | Left to its own devices , real ale stays in a drinkable condition for about a week . |
| 6 | Future events were to prove just how right Stirling had been in making the latter observations and how his basic principles were to be constantly watered down by interference from outside bodies trying to get their hands on the SAS Regiment , which achieved its greatest successes when left to its own devices . |
| 7 | The authors are unconvinced that a reliance on business , left to its own devices or even pump-primed , is sufficient , without full-scale and direct attention to the needs of all residents , those in both the paid and the unpaid workforce , and their dependants . |
| 8 | Jess Artem , of London NW6 , has clearly heard that a neutron left to its own devices will decay , with a half-life of about 11 minutes . |
| 9 | The ozone layer ( spread out between 12 and 50km above the Earth ) , has always existed and , left to its own devices , will regenerate and interact with other airborne gases to create a perfect balance . |
| 10 | If a primary forest is cleared and the ground left to its own devices , a young forest will begin to grow . |
| 11 | Left to its own devices , carbon will accumulate in your engine 's inlet system . |
| 12 | Left to its own devices and trimmed out , I could take hands off the yoke , making minor heading corrections with rudder . |
| 13 | To the north and west of these last the skies are cluttered ; only to the east of Tahiti is the Ocean left to its own devices . |
| 14 | COSE prides itself on its un-organisation : no dues , no structure , no consortium , no budget , and it 's hard to reckon how such a motley crew , left to its own devices , can even begin to expect to defeat Bill Gates , master of the media , without a common war chest and a seriously orchestrated propaganda campaign . |
| 15 | Had the stockmarket been left to its own devices and allowed to find a clearing price , it might well be on its genuine way up now . |
| 16 | It 's hard to reckon how such a motley crew , left to its own devices , can even begin to expect to defeat Bill Gates , master of the media , without a common war chest and a seriously orchestrated propaganda campaign . |
| 17 | The survey also revealed that people do not trust the advertising industry to regulate itself : 56% think it should not be left to its own devices and 66% believe that the Government should monitor advertising . |
| 18 | The implementation or administrative process is far too important to be left to its own devices . |
| 19 | Her hair , left to its own devices to dry , looked like the business end of a witch 's broom . |
| 20 | On the face of it , our young lady is singularly lacking in family connections ; yet , from her appearance , she has not been left to her own devices . ’ |
| 21 | She was left to her own devices when she arrived , no-one from the royal family least of all her future husband , thinking it necessary to welcome her to her new world . |
| 22 | She had arranged to meet Luke in the bar for a drink , and she hoped that he had a dinner engagement so that she would be left to her own devices afterwards . |
| 23 | If Rainbow were left to her own devices , she would undoubtedly now choose to remove herself from the taxi altogether , and pace back and forth in the lay-by , enjoying the comparative peace of the rain and the fumes and the roar of the juggernauts until she could get the show back on the road once more . |
| 24 | Left to her own devices , Lucy wondered what she should do next , then realised she had little option but to wait until she ran into Silas . |
| 25 | She probably would have done if she had been left to her own devices ! |
| 26 | ( d ) It is sometimes suggested that the banks should be left to their civil remedies , and that they should check their clients more carefully . |
| 27 | The prisoners were billeted in houses in the small town , and were left to their own affairs . |
| 28 | For lack of sympathetic agents , the peasants were often left to their own devices in matters of general and even political culture . |
| 29 | Left to their own devices , with intractable economic and ethnic problems , most of them , though not Czechoslovakia , were military or royal dictatorships by the mid-Thirties . |
| 30 | Left to their own devices , most self-sown seedlings cope remarkably well with drought conditions . |