Example sentences of "[noun] left [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was going to explain , too , how the milk came in glass bottles on a cart pulled by a brown horse , and how sometimes the horse left steaming heaps of brown , oval-shaped droppings in the road which people ran out to scoop up with coal shovels and take for their vegetable plots . |
| 2 | Sex symbol Bo — who once appeared in a Tarzan film — is seeking help for zoo animals left homeless after the destruction caused by Hurricane Andrew in Miami . |
| 3 | When Johnstone left Celtic to move south to Sheffield United , by his own confession , he had strayed perilously close to alcoholism . |
| 4 | Marie left this morning . |
| 5 | Marie left some food for me — some coffee and cereal and a bit of bread . |
| 6 | But the Second International did debate two questions which Marx and Engels left unresolved . |
| 7 | She found one book with single words left unruled . |
| 8 | their cars left idle under the rail bridge |
| 9 | Sam Sylvester , deciding that Nails 's home-life left much to be desired , set up what he called a ‘ tactful probe ’ into the Nicholson background . |
| 10 | He climbed into the bus that was taking him and the company 's guests back to the hotel and he sat next to someone he did not recognise in the only seat left vacant . |
| 11 | Dick Thornburgh , the Attorney General , announced his resignation on June 4 , in order to contest a Senate seat left vacant by the death of his Republican party colleague John Heinz [ see p. 38138 ] . |
| 12 | A parliamentary by-election was held in Eastbourne on Oct. 18 to fill the seat left empty by the murder of the Conservative MP , Ian Gow , by the Irish Republican Army on July 30 [ see p. 37623 ] . |
| 13 | Homes left empty without good reason by any public authority will be transferred to a better social landlord . |
| 14 | Crocodile , fish and dinosaur bones millions of years old might come to light when you use a crowbar to overturn a large rock left undisturbed by a lazy geologist . |
| 15 | Further talks on June 17-20 in Bratislava left unresolved the differences over the fundamental principles of a new federation . |
| 16 | ‘ The President left last night for a series of visits to Europe — ’ the picture cut to the President boarding Air Force One at Charles De Gaulle Airport-'which will culminate in a private meeting with the Russian President in Germany . |
| 17 | Tivoli Systems Inc , Austin , Texas , is racing to fill the systems management void left open by the Common Open Software Environment alliance at UniForum . |
| 18 | Tivoli Systems Inc , Austin , Texas , is racing to fill the systems management void left open by the Common Open Software Environment alliance at Uniforum . |
| 19 | These animals are moving into the ecological niche left vacant by the disappearance of the last big predators from Western Europe : wolves , bears and lynx . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ There was just one little fella left burning , ’ he says . |
| 21 | The large wartime backlog of investment left considerable scope for economies in new investment , as in the first ten years the length of distribution mains in service were extended by nearly a third . |
| 22 | If Aberdeen 's prospects of winning the only trophy left available to them have been weakened by a combination of indifferent form and disruption to Willie Miller 's squad , the picture was little brighter for the party who travelled south last night . |
| 23 | Six British dealers fleeing the recession attended the Salon ; the defection of native Parisians such as Bellier and Hopkins-Thomas left two of them , James Mackinnon and Stoppenbach & Delestre , of London , alone in selling late eighteenth- , nineteenth- and early twentieth-century painting . |
| 24 | If you remember , I 'd had trouble enough when I was fifty convincing people to take me on and now at fifty-nine or sixty there were hardly any employment opportunities left open to me . |
| 25 | On Sept. 24 France and Belgium ( the former colonial power ) sent troops to Kinshasa after rioting left 30 people dead . |
| 26 | There was very little water flowing , but the rains and the melted snow in the spring left large pools which were reasonably clear and clean since nobody swam in them but us . |
| 27 | It is important to remember that the amount of fabric left unpleated ( i.e. , the total of all the spaces ) must equal the length of your track ( plus returns and overlap arm where applicable ) . |
| 28 | Just one of the six keyboards on test came close to meeting the criteria I initially laid down for a replacement keyboard , the Fuller FDS. Even here the poor workmanship left much to be desired . |
| 29 | In 1983 two new MKIII sleeping cars numbered 2914 and 2915 were added to the Royal Train , part finished at Derby Litchurch Lane , with three compartments in each car left empty of berths . |
| 30 | An encounter with a car left this badger with a broken back leg . |