Example sentences of "[be] left the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the trust route the widow will be left the £1M of non-qualifying assets and will use them to " buy " ( by way of exchange ) the qualifying assets ( which she must hold for the requisite two years ( before death ) ) . |
| 2 | Far from being an enriching process in which students can more easily grasp the basics of science , they are left the poorer because their understanding is in fact limited , in the sense of being bounded , by the very standardisation that was meant to free them . |
| 3 | The National Trust has been left the largest bequest in its history by Mrs Helena Levy , the widow of leading philanthropist , Kenneth Levy . |
| 4 | She did not have sufficient strength to take stance on the gaunt bare branch above her head nor had she touched the remnant of meat that had been left the day before as her food and which now lay on the ground at her side . |
| 5 | It would n't be the first time that a man has been seduced by female beauty and been left the poorer for his pleasure , nor the first time Lotta has attempted by stealth to deprive me of something which I value . ’ |
| 6 | are retired so they got no income and then perhaps been left the house |
| 7 | While many indigenous workers moved up into better-paid , pleasanter and more skilled jobs , the immigrants were left the dirty , hard and low-paid work in the foundries and textile mills , as transport or catering workers or in sweat shops and small factories thrown up by the post-war boom . |
| 8 | We 'd arrived too late to enjoy whatever it was that the Sixties had ; and we were left the warm dregs to mull over . |
| 9 | If the Cytherean greenhouse effect were ‘ switched off ’ but everything else were left the same the average surface temperature would fall from 730 K to 230 K. For the Earth , the corresponding temperatures are 288 K and 253 K. Thus , though Venus is closer to the Sun than the Earth its surface temperature would actually fall below that of the Earth . |
| 10 | Er Mr , you have of course just been reading your special statement , erm document number five , and there is left the erm additional two pages which makes these er submissions . |
| 11 | There was this scene right at the end where the woman lights a cigarette after she 's left the gas on the cooker on and everything goes up in an explosion ; and then in the very next advert there was a car driving through a field , and the whole field went up in a sheet of flame . |
| 12 | • Bill Wyman 's left the Stones . |
| 13 | They should have asked Mr Bill Wyman , even though he 's left the band . |
| 14 | He 's left the villa . |
| 15 | She 's left the proceeds from that in trust to the parish of St Clement 's . |
| 16 | To Sharpe 's left the stream flowed into a lake , while ahead of him , beyond the shallow ford , a farm with an arched gateway stood on the left-hand side of the road . |
| 17 | ‘ See , ’ said Constance , ‘ she 's left the furniture out . ’ |
| 18 | So it looks as if she 's left the master , as least for the time being . ’ |
| 19 | Sorry , lads , ca n't beat back the Nazi hordes today , Fred 's left the key at home . |
| 20 | Sara paused a moment and then said , " She 's left the other half to Matthew Preston . " |
| 21 | He 's left the priesthood now , but has a national profile which has lifted Labour 's campaign locally and made him instantly recognisable to many as he attempts to persuade them that he 's the new broom they need . |
| 22 | Police hunting a drugs importer who was involved in the death of a cocaine courier say he 's left the country . |
| 23 | cos she 's left the kids with you ? |
| 24 | Yes , he 's left the business side to people . |
| 25 | Well he did , Michael 's left the game . |
| 26 | My stepfather died at the end of November 1991 and under his will my mother was left the life interest in the income arising from the sum of £60,000 with the remainder to my stepbrother . |
| 27 | Liz , 36 , was left the single parent of Amy , now five . |
| 28 | The Roman Research Trust , which was left the manor in Mrs Barrie Brown 's will says the cost of conversion in line with her wishes was too high . |